Unlike anywhere else Crematorium at San Makiang Village, Doi Saket District, Chiang Mai Province, creating the country’s first modern-style building to reduce the fear To be like the last house to burn the ghosts of Father Yuak-Mae Yuak before actual cremation
The strange ceremony was held at Ban San Makiang Cemetery. Samran Rat Subdistrict, Doi Saket District, Chiang Mai Province, there is a 1,000-year-old ghost burning ceremony of Father Yuak and Mae Yuak. The ghost is a banana tree simulated into a human puppet. The metaphor is burning suffering, burning sorrow, burning disease, and burning away all dangers for prosperity. with those who join to make merit to build a crematorium Let there be only good things Sorrow is over. job advancement do business Easy to contact and trade like a banana peel
with many villagers and people joining to make merit to exorcise the bad luck Along with inviting 20 monks to perform the ceremony and the monks preach a traditional melody, Malai Dart Lok, like a real funeral. The guests who attended the event laid the tri-cloth. There is a Pi Phat band playing. Then open the casket located on the crematorium. Use coconut to wash your face and have a banana tree as a model. Father Yuak and Mae Yuak ask people to lay sandalwood flowers before bringing the coffin to the crematorium. The abbot of Wat Phra That Doi Saket, Phra Aram Luang, is the president of the remote burner.
Phra Kru Palad Taweewat Inthawanno, advisor to the abbot of San Makiang Temple, said that this new crematorium, Mr. Almon Budiman, an Indonesian businessman donated 3 million baht to build instead of the old crematorium. that has been used for a long time And still had to cremate the body outdoors. Not suitable for a community that is prosperous So I told the mechanic Ask to be designed as the last house. so as not to be scary Not like a general cremation crematorium, it turned out to be a modern and Lanna style crematorium. which the northern tradition If the crematorium is completed Before actually using it, there must be a burning ceremony of the banana tree puppet first. To exorcise misfortune, burn suffering, burn sorrow, burn disease to be auspicious to the people in the village. And those who make offerings, if they don’t do it, some people believe that it will happen bad luck to the people in the village. as a belief since ancient times So there is a solution
Source: Thai News Agency