Talk:Loy Krathong

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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on November 16, 2005.

I took out the Bangkok festival link because it does not exist now.Rlevse 17:43, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Invented tradition

I'm currently looking for the reference, but Thai historians usually link Loy Krathong to "invented traditions," which is to say: this is not actually something stemming from the Sukhothai era, but was created during the Rattanakhosin period (the modern era).

Aajaan Udom, from Chiang Mai University, has an article similarly linking the Chiang Mai fire balloon to a different ceremony - the "khoom loy" is not, in fact, historically "Thai."

Does someone have these references? I'll look for them myself here.