Hello everyone. How are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family. Every year in September - October, some provinces in the northern part of Thailand hold a tradition and make merit in each village's temple. Each temple in the district hold a tradition event and make merit on different days and will hold the tradition event for only one day. This tradition is the tradition of the offering dedicated food, necessary things and money to monks in the temple and monks from other temples who come to participate in rituals at the temple that hosts the traditional, With the condition that each monk will draw lots to receive food, necessary things and money from each person who makes merit. My wife and I visit this tradition event at many temples every year. This year too, Today we visited this tradition event at small temple in the countryside was first temple. This temple is called Wat Sotayaram. Wat Sotayaram is in San Sai Subdistrict and this temple is more than 100 years old.
The temple is in our district and about 20 kilometers from our house. After we sent our son and granddaughter to school, we go to the temple. We traveled on highway 107 (main road) and traveled on the rural road to the temple. The atmosphere of our journey this morning.
This tradition is held from morning until afternoon. But we only visited this tradition event in the morning. And take photos and a video of the vibe at this tradition event at Wat Sotayaram to share with friends in this post too.
Money trees and necessary things of villagers who participate in making merit at tradition event, These are used for draw lots. Villagers place money trees and necessary things in their pavilions and in front of the buddha image hall (viharn). And each monk will draw lots to receive money trees and necessary things in the afternoon.
Some of the religious ceremonies, give the offering dedicated to the monks, lay respect to the monks and buddha image, receive blessing from the monks in buddha image hall (viharn).
Northern Thai traditional dance shows and local dance show of the Tai Yai people in this tradition event. There is also local music show of the Tai Yai people. Tai Yai people are an ethnic group in Thailand. These are some of the shows this morning.
There are also many shops at the tradition event. These shops are located outside the temple. We bought meatballs to eat as snacks and drinks too.
Finally a video of some vibe in the tradition event at Wat Sotayaram. The video is below this post. These are the stories and photos I want to share for this post. Invite everyone to see and enjoy my stories and photos. Please forgive any errors/mistakes. Have a great day. See you next time. Thank you for your support and visiting my post. Bye 🤗
🌏 Wat Sotayaram is located in San Sai Subdistrict, Fang District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
📷 Take photo By Smartphone Vivo V30.