Royal Ploughing Ceremony

The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is held every year and its history dates back to the Sukhothai Period. The Annual Ploughing ceremony is held every year in May but there is no fixed date as such and keeps changing every year. The festival is held at Sanam Luuang near the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The ceremony has been very popular since time immemorial and is hailed as a very auspicious ceremony usually celebrating the planting season. The Royal Ploughing ceremony is a Brahmin festival and was practised even before the birth of Lord Buddha. These days the royal Majesty remains present throughout the ceremony with the king no longer taking charge of the matter. Representatives and leaders are chosen to carry out the duties and roles.

The Royal Ploughing Ceremony goes on to expect a lot of rainfall and anticipates a high rainfall during the next rainy season. The ceremony goes on to see the Ploughing lord being offered three lengths of cloth all identical to look at. However the clinch lies in the fact that whoever chooses the long cloth would signify that there would be a lot of rain in fact the highest rainfall and the shortest one would indicate plenty plenty rainfall and the medium one would indicate average rainfall. Ploughing ceremony also sees the Ploughing Lord ploughing in the furrows with bulls and ladies carry gold and silver baskets with rice seed. Conch shells and chanting goes on simultaneously.

This day has been declared as the Agriculturist Day and is celebrated with much excitement.

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