Thai Traditional Festival - The Festival of the Tenth Lunar Month

ประเพณีไทย - ประเพณีสารทเดือนสิบ

2022/2565-10-09

To publicize traditional Thai festivals and in particular Praphenih Sart Deuan Sip, i.e. the Tenth Lunar Month Festival

2022/22-25

3 Baht, 3 Baht, 5 Baht, 5 Baht

3 Baht, 3 Baht, 5 Baht, 5 Baht

16 Baht (unused), 4 Baht (used)

n/a

30 x 48 mm

300,000 pieces per design

T.K.S. Technologies Public Company Limited, Thailand

Drawings of objects and activities associated with, Praphenih Sart Deuan Sip, i.e. the Festival of the Tenth Lunar Month, an autumnal religious festival during the tenth lunar month, in which ancestors and deceased relatives are honoured and snacks, such as krayahsaad (fig.) and khanom lah (fig.) are offered. It is exuberantly celebrated annually  at Wat Mahathat Wora Maha Wihaan in Nakhon Sri Thammarat. The four designs depict: 1. some of the five snacks used as a traditional offering to monks and which represents the offerings of clothes to the spirits of the dead, such as khanom lah, khanom bah or krayahsaad, khanom phong, khanom dih sam, khanom kai pla or khanom kong; 2. souls of the deceased released from hell; 3. a monk with an offering of a large sheet of khanom lah that has been shaped into a tall cone; 4. a crowd of people around some snacks that are used as a traditional offering to monks and the spirits of the dead, who temporarily ascend from hell in order to accept offerings and honours of their relatives on earth during the festival

Visit Thailand Year (1987), khanom lah, khanom bah, krayahsaad, khanom phong, khanom dih sam, khanom kai pla, khanom kong, Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Wat Mahathat Wora Maha Wihaan, praphenih sip song deuan, Praphenih Sart Deuan Sip