12th August.
A few weeks before the Queen's birthday, preparations start at full swing. For this occasion, people all around the country raise national flags and houses are decorate with the portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. This is their way of expressing their loyalty and honor to her. Similarly, local organizations are bedecked with her portraits, garlands, and colorful lights. In the capital city Bangkok, Ratchadamnoen Avenue, Sanam Luang, the area around Grand Palace is bedecked with colorful lights and firework display is an added attraction. Around Bangkok, the area around the Grand Palace and other well-known locations are bedecked with colored lights and firework display serves as an added attraction.
On the day, early in the morning government officials, royal army, students, teachers, gather around high the high tower clock. They form a procession and walk to the king's palace. On its way to the palace, music band plays popular music pieces. After arrival at King's palace, the procession presents flowers to the representative of the HM the Queen. It's followed by song ''Mother of Kingdom', praising both Queen and King. In the evening ceremony at the Queen's garden, government officials lit candles. In this way, they pay respect to the Queen and pay for her long life.
Not only limited to birthday celebration of the Queen, Thai people also take this day as an opportunity to thank their dear mother for her unconditional love. Mother's day morning in Thailand starts by giving alms to the monks. Following the Thai tradition, kids kneel down before their mother to show their love and gratitude. They present her with white jasmine flowers or garlands, in return, mother shower her blessings on kids. On this day, white jasmine flowers are a common sight in Thailand as they are the symbol of maternal love. The white color of the flower symbolizes purity of mother's true love, which will never change. Charitable activities, donations, offering to monks are also an important part of the day to express child's love and gratitude towards mother.
http://www.dayformothers.com/around-the-world/mothers-day-in-thailand.html
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Back when I was a child, Australia slavishly followed the UK and we had Mothering Sunday as described. Our sole activity was collecting a small piece of cake and a white flower from Sunday School and delivering it to our mothers with a thank you speech. When the US and Hollywood took over our lives around the 1970s or 80s, we acquired the "big spend on 2nd Sunday in May" stuff. I don't think we ever thought of having such an event off our own bat, the Aussie ethos doesn't do things according to an annual timetable as a rule.
Originally posted by Trev33You, like me, are clearly not a church goer! The Christian festival, celebrated as stated on the 4th Sunday in Lent is called "Mothering Sunday". More and more nowadays it has become a secular celebration of mothering and is being called, as you rightly say,"Mothers' Day".
I lived in the uk for 25 years and not once have i heard of the term 'Mothering Sunday'.
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Originally posted by SunburntThis day (May 13th) was a Day of National security & police force.
May 13 🙂
Mother's day was never celebrated - they assumed that March 8th had covered all women - workers, mothers, aunts, grannies, politicians, divorced secretaries, housewives, retired female partizan commanders, mistresses, ballet dancers, pole dancers ...
Today there still isn't any Mother's day, but there isn't National security day neither.
All transitional countries have only two holidays
1. Groundhog day
and
2. Day of National Yoghurt