Thingyan is the Burmese New Year Festival that usually occurs in middle of April. It is a Buddhist festival celebrated over a period of four to five days, culminating in the New Year. The dates of the Thingyan Festival are calculated according to the Burmese calendar.

Where is Thingyan celebrated?

The Burmese Water Festival (Thingyan which means “changing over”), is the celebration of Burma's New Year. It is traditionally held over a three day period in April in Burma, which was renamed Myanmar in 1989.

How is Thingyan celebrated?

Traditionally, Thingyan Festival was celebrated with the sprinkling of scented water on each other from a silver bowl using sprigs of thabyay, which are the leaves of a green tropical tree, but as times have changed, water is instead thrown on each other from plastic buckets, cans, bowls, water pipes and even powerful ...