The calendarPoy Sang Long
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Boys in gold and face paint, carried on shoulders because their feet must not touch the ground.
FredTC · CC BY-SA 4.0What it is
The Shan ordination festival, held in Mae Hong Son and across the province, most commonly in late March and April. Boys are dressed as princes for the days before they are ordained as novices.
The long version
Shan people are the largest population group in Mae Hong Son province, and this is their festival. The boys are dressed in ornamented clothing and jewellery and made up, and carried on the shoulders of relatives — their feet are not to touch the ground during the procession.
Inference — the festival falls in the two months the air is at its worst, so a rider in Mae Hong Son for Poy Sang Long rides in the smoke.
It is also a religious event in people's own town rather than a display.
Runs with
- personThe Shan — Whose festival it is.
- townMae Hong Son — Where the biggest processions are.
- eventBurning season — The months it shares.
Named here by
- townMae Hong Son — The festival the town is known for.
- personThe Shan — Their ordination festival.
- eventSongkran — The other spring festival, and the province's own.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Poy Sang Long — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text.story | inference | the scheduling conflict and the conduct note are this project's reasoning, not the cited source's | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Poy Sang Long — Wikipedia (en)
- Shan people — Wikipedia (en)
- Mae Hong Son province — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there