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Myanmar celebrates traditional Thingyan water festival

STORY: Myanmar celebrates traditional Thingyan water festival SHOOTING TIME: April 14, 2024 DATELINE: April 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:18 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Thingyan water festival celebrations in Yangon STORYLINE: Myanmar's vibrant Thingyan water festival continued into its second day on Sunday, as people across the Southeast Asian country immersed themselves in the joyous festivities. The time-honored tradition of splashing each other with water represents a symbolic cleansing of past wrongs and a fresh beginning for the upcoming year. Throughout the country, lively dance performances contribute to the festive atmosphere. This year's Thingyan water festival will run for four days until Tuesday. The Myanmar New Year falls on Wednesday. In Myanmar, the Thingyan water festival holds immense cultural significance, standing as the most famous celebration among the 12 monthly seasonal festivals observed throughout the year. Xinhua News Agency corres

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(240411) -- NANNING, April 11, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Citizens and visitors perform bamboo pole dance in a celebration of "Sanyuesan" festival in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, April 8, 2024. People of Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi celebrate the Sanyuesan Festival on the third day of the third lunar month by wearing traditional costumes and having traditional entertainments. This year's Sanyuesan Festival falls on April 11. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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(240411) -- NANNING, April 11, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Teachers and pupils of a primary school perform bamboo pole dance in a celebration of "Sanyuesan" festival in Qinzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, April 10, 2024. People of Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi celebrate the Sanyuesan Festival on the third day of the third lunar month by wearing traditional costumes and having traditional entertainments. This year's Sanyuesan Festival falls on April 11. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

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(240330) -- LHASA, March 30, 2024 (Xinhua) -- The 80-year-old Drakpa Wangden shows his commemorative medal awarded to the Communist Party of China (CPC) members after five decades of Party membership in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, March 11, 2024. Born in 1944, Drakpa Wangden lives now in Doilungdeqen District of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Before the democratic reform, Drakpa Wangden and his family were serfs, working on manors affiliated with two monasteries in present-day Lhasa. For his family, each spring meant borrowing seeds from their masters, however, they could collect nothing during the autumn harvest. At that time, the sustenance of Drakpa Wangden's family of nine was a meager bowl of tsampa, a traditional Tibetan staple made from barley flour, no larger than the palm of a child's hand. In March 1959, people in Xizang launched a democratic reform that ended the region's feudal serfdom and Drakpa Wangden's family was freed along with about a milli