Songkran Under Consideration as Intangible Cultural Heritage

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Culture announced that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has approved the inclusion of the Songkran Festival to its tentative list of Intangible Cultural Heritages (ICH) in December this year. If approved, Songkran will become Thailand’s fourth intangible cultural heritage.

 

The approval for consideration by UNESCO was disclosed by Culture Minister Itthiphol Khunpluem on April 6. The inclusion of the Songkran festival in the ICH tentative list, according to the minister, helps foster a greater appreciation and understanding of Thai culture and promotes the festival as a significant cultural heritage of the country.

 

An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill, as well as artifacts or cultural property, considered by UNESCO to be part of a place’s cultural heritage.

 

Thailand’s intangible cultural heritages currently include Khon, a dance drama genre, traditional Thai massage, or Nuad Thai, and Nora, which is an acrobatic form of dance theater and improvisational singing from southern Thailand.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230407111829887

 

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[brommers]

Why not apply to have the Burning Season made a cultural heritage practice. It is much more meaningful than a couple of days splashing water around.

[2baht]

Cultural reality! 

 

[klauskunkel]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill, as well as artifacts or cultural property, considered by UNESCO to be part of a place’s cultural heritage.

Once the water leaves the super-soaker and touches you, the practice, representation, expression, knowledge or skill, becomes quite tangible. Just check your clothing.

[blackshadow]

NOW THIS IS REALLY getting stupid.......

[2baht]

1 hour ago, blackshadow said:

NOW THIS IS REALLY getting stupid.......

Getting???

[blackshadow]

4 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Getting???

yeah first time UNESCO has been involved with the songkram stupidity !!!!

[Pedrogaz]

Ugh!

[sidneybear]

Traditional Songran is rather charming and definitely cultural. Modern songkran is nothing more than a moronic water fight.

[zzaa09]

32 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

Traditional Songran is rather charming and definitely cultural. Modern songkran is nothing more than a moronic water fight.

Tradition is still practiced throughout a wide spectrum of society.

The moronic scenes tend to lose themselves among the usual and expected locales/groups.

[StayinThailand2much]

Just Songkran? How about the other Water Festivals around SE Asia?

[bamnutsak]

First it was "Soft" power.

 

Now it's "Wet" power.