Thai Traditional Festival - Long Boat Racing

ประเพณีไทย - การแข่งเรือยาว

2017/2560-04-07

To publicize traditional Thai festivals and in particular Longboat Races.

2017/13-16

3 Baht, 3 Baht, 3 Baht, 3 Baht

3 Baht, 3 Baht, 3 Baht, 3 Baht

12 Baht (unused), 4 Baht (used)

n/a

30 x 48 mm

300,000 pieces per design

Thai British Security Printing Public Company Limited, Thailand

Longboat races are a Thai traditional sport in which several teams vie with each other in a rowing race with a longboat, called reua yao in Thai. It reflects the way of life of people who live near the river and takes place in many regions of Thailand, after the Buddhist festival of thod kathin, when water levels are at their highest. This is a period in which local people are free from labour in the fields and have time to make merit (tamboon), and are enticed into boat races for fun. The first stamp of this set is of Dragon Boats, i.e. dragon-headed longboats on the Nan River (fig.).

longboat race, thod kathin, Nan