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    Thingyan festival, also known as the Water Festival or Myanmar's New Year Festival, is celebrated over four days in April to wash away sins and welcome the new year. During the festival, people throw water on each other using devices like hoses, syringes, and water pistols. It is believed the dousing purifies one's mind and spirit. After the four days of celebrations, people clean pagodas and monasteries, help the elderly, and make donations on the final day. Releasing live fish or cows into water is also customary with the intention that one's sins will be released in return. The Thingyan festival is an important cultural event not to be missed for those visiting Myanmar

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    Thingyan festival, also known as the Water Festival or Myanmar's New Year Festival, is celebrated over four days in April to wash away sins and welcome the new year. During the festival, people throw water on each other using devices like hoses, syringes, and water pistols. It is believed the dousing purifies one's mind and spirit. After the four days of celebrations, people clean pagodas and monasteries, help the elderly, and make donations on the final day. Releasing live fish or cows into water is also customary with the intention that one's sins will be released in return. The Thingyan festival is an important cultural event not to be missed for those visiting Myanmar

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    Thingyan festival, also known as the Water Festival or Myanmar's New Year Festival, is celebrated over four days in April to wash away sins and welcome the new year. During the festival, people throw water on each other using devices like hoses, syringes, and water pistols. It is believed the dousing purifies one's mind and spirit. After the four days of celebrations, people clean pagodas and monasteries, help the elderly, and make donations on the final day. Releasing live fish or cows into water is also customary with the intention that one's sins will be released in return. The Thingyan festival is an important cultural event not to be missed for those visiting Myanmar

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    Thingyan festival, also known as the Water Festival or Myanmar's New Year Festival, is celebrated over four days in April to wash away sins and welcome the new year. During the festival, people throw water on each other using devices like hoses, syringes, and water pistols. It is believed the dousing purifies one's mind and spirit. After the four days of celebrations, people clean pagodas and monasteries, help the elderly, and make donations on the final day. Releasing live fish or cows into water is also customary with the intention that one's sins will be released in return. The Thingyan festival is an important cultural event not to be missed for those visiting Myanmar

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    A Famous Festival in Myanmar

    Thingyan festival – Water Festival – Myanmar New Year - in April

    The country Myanmar is Known as the "Golden Land" in the world since every pagoda is decorated
    and painted with gold. Myanmar is full of very colourful and deep rooted festivals. There are 13 most
    popular year around festivals in Myanmar. One of them is the celebration on Thingyan Festival, as the
    Water Festival or Myanmar's Traditional New Year Festival. Myanmar people celebrate the Water
    Festival all over the country for 4 days before New Year day by throwing water on each other. It takes
    place on April13th to April 16th of every year. It is believed that Water Festival washes away sins and
    welcomes the New Year, April 17th.

    The Mandats, water throwing and playing places with the large signboards are every where, not only
    in the cities but also in the villages. In major cities such as Yangon, garden hoses, huge syringes
    made of bamboo, plastic water pistols, bowls, cups and other devices from which water can be
    squirted are used. All these whole days, people are going round to the Mandats with their bicycles,
    motorbikes, opentop jeeps and trucks to play the water with each other. It is a hottest time of the year
    and a good dousing is welcomed by most. Everyone is fair game except the monks and obviously
    pregnant women.

    After playing around and having fun throughout the country, people welcome the New Year on the
    17th by cleaning the floors of the pagodas and monasteries, washing old and aged peoples' hair,
    helping to cut their nails. Some offer free foods and drinks for everyone who comes to the pagodas.
    Some make other donations.

    There is also a custom in Myanmar to buy live fishes and cows during the festival and let them free in
    sanctuaries or rivers or lakes with a prayer and a wish saying "I release you once, you release me ten
    times" on the final day of Thingyan. Most of the Myanmar's believe in Buddhism and so killing any
    living creature is a sinful act.

    All these April days, there are music and sprinkling of water in the air. Throwing water on everyone
    with the intention to purify their mind and spirit is really wet. If you are planning a trip to the Gold Land
    Myanmar, this is one festival not to be missed. All your sins are purified with Thingyan Water Festival.
    You will never forget true joy.

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