| 摘要 | Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: ?misoka, Lantern Festival, Vesākha, Rocket Festival, Uposatha, Duanwu Festival, Qingming Festival, Ghost Festival, Hungry Ghosts in Chinese Religion, Sanja Matsuri, Bon Festival, Cheung Chau Bun Festival, Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Buddha's Birthday, Esala Perahera, Setsubun, Dongzhi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tibetan Festivals, Children's Day, Liberation Rite of Water and Land, Magha Puja, Monlam Prayer Festival, Bodhi Day, Vassa, Pavarana, Tsechu, Kathina, Ubon Ratchathani Candle Festival, Pee Ta Khon, Boun Pha Vet, Sanghamitta, Poy Sang Long, Lhabab Duchen, Vixakha Bouxa, Asalha Puja, Madhu Purnima, Kagyed, Parinirvana Day, Ghost Festival in Malaysia, Chotrul Duchen, Bhumchu, Shangsi Festival, Drupka Teshi. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: A Rocket Festival (Thai: , Lao: ) is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced throughout much of northeast Thailand and Laos, by numerous villages and municipalities near the beginning of the rainy season. Celebrations typically include preliminary music and dance performances, competitive processions of floats, dancers and musicians on the second day, and culminating on the third day in competitive firings of home-made rockets. Local participants and sponsors use the occasion to enhance their social prestige, as is customary in traditional Buddhist folk festivals throughout Southeast Asia. See also Gift culture. These festivals are presumed to have evolved from pre-Buddhist fertility rites held to celebrate and encourage the coming of the rains, from before the 9th Century discovery of black powder. It may also be said that Lao culture is not lacking in earthy, bawdy themes, with rockets festivals the most sexually oriented and bawdy of the lot. Coming immediately prior to the planting season, the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=876849 |
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