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List of festivals in Laos

Index List of festivals in Laos

Laotian Festivals are usually based on Theravada Buddhism. [1]

11 relations: Boun Khun Khao, Boun Suang Huea, Chinese New Year, Hmong customs and culture, International Workers' Day, Lao New Year, Public holidays in Laos, Tết, That Luang Festival, Theravada, Vesak.

Boun Khun Khao

Boun Khun Khao is an agricultural festival held in rural parts of Laos at the end of January and beginning of February.

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Boun Suang Huea

The boat racing festival called Boun Suang Heua or Boun Xuang Heua (Lao: ບຸນຊ່ວງເຮືອ) or Loy Krathong (Lao: ລອຍກະໂທງ) is celebrated every year, particularly in Laos, usually in October, at the end of Buddhist Lent.

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, usually known as the Spring Festival in modern China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Hmong customs and culture

The Hmong people are an ethnic group currently native to several countries, believed to have come from the Yangtze river basin area in southern China.

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International Workers' Day

International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day or Workers' Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement which occurs every year on May Day (1 May), an ancient European spring festival.

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Lao New Year

Lao New Year, called Pi Mai (ປີໃໝ່) or less commonly Songkran (ສົງກຣານ), is celebrated every year from April 13/14 to April 15/16.

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Public holidays in Laos

Public holidays in Laos are days when workers get the day off work.

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Tết

Tết, or Vietnamese New Year, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture.

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That Luang Festival

That Luang is the national symbol and most important religious monument of Laos.

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Theravada

Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.

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Vesak

Vesak (Pali: Vesākha, Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists and some Hindus on different days in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia and the Philippines and in China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam as "Buddha's Birthday" as well as in other parts of the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_festivals_in_Laos

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