UNESCO has approved the inclusion of the Songkran festival in the tentative list of Intangible Cultural Heritages (ICH) for consideration in December this year, Thailand’s Culture Minister Itthiphol Khunpluem said today (Thursday).

 

UNESCO declared the Khon mask dance, Thai massage and the Nora dance performance to be Intangible Cultural Heritages, in 2018, 2019 and 2021 respectively.

 

Nora is a form of dance-drama, performed mainly in Thailand’s southernmost provinces. Nora is a shortened form of the name Manora. The performance has its own music tradition, southern Thai dialect and movement techniques believed to have come from India.

 

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So the question for UNESCO will be "Which part of the intangible heritage are the water fights, the ice cold water tossing, and the mayhem which occurs in the roadways of Bangkok, Pattaya, KhaoSan Road, Chiang Mai, Phuket and so on....

10 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

So the question for UNESCO will be "Which part of the intangible heritage are the water fights, the ice cold water tossing, and the mayhem which occurs in the roadways of Bangkok, Pattaya, KhaoSan Road, Chiang Mai, Phuket and so on....

They will submit something along the lines of the op photo...

not the street mayhem of Khao San road or the likes of other resorts.

Next consideration for listing is the intangible attraction of utility poles for vehicles....????

Representatives should visit Khaosan Road during the celebration their in order to decide whether it is an honorable celebration, or simply a brawl of water guns and a very efficient way to spread a new pandemic... if ever there is one.

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

UNESCO has approved the inclusion of the Songkran festival in the tentative list of Intangible Cultural Heritages

If chucking water at each other is a cultural heritage then I suggest Musical chairs should be granted it in the UK

14 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

So the question for UNESCO will be "Which part of the intangible heritage are the water fights, the ice cold water tossing, and the mayhem which occurs in the roadways of Bangkok, Pattaya, KhaoSan Road, Chiang Mai, Phuket and so on....

And notice that at UNESCO people work with salaries that are even in first world countries hard to believe. And in some form paid by our tax money. They work on such things instead of using these resources to help truly poor people. There are some unfair trade agreements between Europe and African countries, no one talks about but money is waste on UNESCOs Songkran work.

2 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

If chucking water at each other is a cultural heritage then I suggest Musical chairs should be granted it in the UK

Or some competition who can eat 10 burger faster

You know you are old when the the idea of throwing water into a strangers face has lost any of the comic appeal it might have once  had.

2 hours ago, Denim said:

You know you are old when the the idea of throwing water into a strangers face has lost any of the comic appeal it might have once  had.

I can't find anything funny throwing water into a strangers face. But really without being sarcastic I envy the people who have the best time of their life doing it.