What are the interesting traditional cultures and national customs in Thailand?
Religious culture
Thailand is a country where all people believe in religion. About 97% people believe in Mahayana Buddhism, which is different from Mahayana Buddhism in China. The biggest difference is that Mahayana Buddhism advocates crossing people first, then crossing oneself, while Hinayana Buddhism advocates self-help, self-awareness and absolute self-spiritual independence. Therefore, absolute respect between people is the biggest feature of Thais. You can see that Thai people worship each other with their hands folded like Buddha, instead of hugging and shaking hands like other countries. This shows that Thais respect themselves and others physically and mentally. In adulthood, boys must become monks once before marriage, ranging from one week to one year, and some escape into an empty door and become monks for life. Becoming a monk is to thank parents before getting married.
It is because of their religious beliefs that the crime rate of Thais is very low. They don't steal or rob, and they will take the initiative to return the lost items. However, the overall crime rate in Thailand is very high. People from Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries come to work in Thailand. When they go out at night, they must be careful of motorcycle robbers. They took the money and ran away. In our opinion, they all look the same. If they are robbed, they can't come back.
2. Royal culture
In the hearts of the Thai people, the Thai royal family has a very important position. Bhumibol adulyadej, the ninth Rama who died on 20 16, made many decisions in favor of the people all his life and was respected and loved by the Thai people. Even now, huge photos of King IX can be seen everywhere on the streets of Thailand.
King IX was most praised by the international community, that is, in the notorious Golden Triangle area in northern Thailand, he implemented the poppy substitution planting project and achieved remarkable drug control effect. After the poppy was eradicated, experts were sent to analyze the local soil and replant rice, flowers, vegetables, fruits, coffee and other crops according to different climatic conditions. At the same time, handicraft industry has been developed traditionally, and the very famous jasmine fragrant rice is produced here.
The beloved Rama IX carefully looked into the eyes of King IX, and one eye was a false eye, which was a medical accident caused by counterfeit drugs. It is for this reason that King IX hated the production of counterfeit drugs and formulated a constitution: in addition to drug trafficking, if counterfeit drugs are manufactured, regardless of the quantity, they will be sentenced to death. Driven by this constitution, all kinds of drugs in Thailand are world-famous, without adulteration and with good curative effect.
In addition, King IX is still a very single-minded person. He only married one wife in his life and raised him all his life. He has a son and three daughters. In contrast, King IX's grandfather, Rama V Chulalongkorn, was also a very enlightened monarch. He vigorously promoted reforms, but he had many wives, including 100 wives and more than 70 sons. In addition, King X, the only son of King IX, is also a famous playboy and is not particularly loved by the Thai people. It is said that King IX was very old and did not succeed to the throne. He wanted to be succeeded directly by his grandson, but unfortunately he didn't see his grandson's birth until his death.
Among all the children of King IX, Princess Sirindhorn, the second daughter, is more like a qualified heir. She often represents the king at important national events and ceremonies and has never been married. Princess Sirindhorn is also an outstanding Sino-Thai friendship envoy. She has visited China many times, loves China culture very much, speaks fluent Chinese, and never brings an interpreter to China.
3. shemale culture
Speaking of shemale, many people misunderstand that Thai people have to have sex-change surgery because they are too poor, but after my understanding, this is not the case. Due to water quality problems, there is a disparity in the birth rate between men and women in Thailand. Many boys' parents are busy at work, and they are all brought up by their sisters. Without the role of father as a benchmark, many boys like to draw faces and tend to be feminine. These people want to be a girl from their hearts before they have sex-change surgery. The number of shemale in Thailand is 1/70 of that of all boys. Boys, think about it. If you have a job with more money and less hours, the price is to spend a lot of money to make you do more than 50 operations and become a girl. If you take drugs for a long time, you can only live to be in your sixties at most. Do you want it? Presumably all boys would rather starve to death than choose this job. In addition to these transsexual boys, some boys choose to become monks, which eventually leads to a serious ratio of male to female of 1:2. Thailand is also the prototype of The Journey to the West's daughter country.
Transgender people in Thailand are not only on the stage, in fact, they are all over the industry. Every girl you see in the street may be a shemale. We don't need to look at them differently. They are just girls with special physiology. They bravely follow their inner wishes, endure great pain and become a girl, and live according to their own expectations, which is actually very worthy of respect.
Let's talk about sex-change surgery here. The most painful thing is not what you think, but pulling out four ribs for a small waist. In addition, transvestites can operate anywhere except vocal cords, so transvestites generally don't talk and lip-synch when performing, otherwise they will be surprised when they export. With the development of modern medicine, the average life span of shemale has been from about forty to over sixty.
Sorry, shemale is still defined as male in Thai law, so you will see many beautiful faces at the conscription meeting every year. If you are unlucky and draw a red sign, you will often be taken advantage of when you enter the military camp.
4. Pornographic culture
Pattaya is the most famous erotic culture in Thailand. Pattaya was originally a small fishing village. During the Vietnam War, it was chosen as a military base by American soldiers, and then developed a pleasure-seeking business. After so many years of development and transformation, it has finally become Pattaya today. At night, neon lights in big shops, hotels, dance halls and nightclubs flash, and small kiosks lined up on both sides of the street. The streets and alleys are full of pop music, and pedestrians on the road are jostling with each other and brightly lit all night.
The most famous street is "chickens, ducks, geese, cats and dogs". Chicken refers to female, duck refers to male, goose refers to shemale, cat refers to crooked nut, and dog refers to black man. Curious to know for yourself.
I also went to see the 6996 adult show. I look at it from the perspective of appreciating art, so I feel fine. I especially like one of the boys. His movements are very charming. As soon as he took the stage, he was filled with a confident smile without the perfunctory and fatigue of other performers. His face is written with the expression "My mother is the most beautiful in the world". I guess he's saving money for sex-change surgery. Now he will regret it. He didn't take a photo with him when he came out. I hope he will eventually become what he (she) wants to be.
These are the four major cultures of Thailand. If we know more about them, we will find that many phenomena are not what we originally imagined. Let me talk about the life of the Thai people again. There is a reason why Thailand has been ranked first in the happy country for many years.
First of all, Thailand's land is privatized, and the country has no unified planning and no image project. In urban areas, you can often see a "slum" with a tin roof next to high-rise buildings. There are flying wires everywhere, which does not give people a high-end appearance, but there is nothing speculative. Land is cheap and everyone has a place to live. Moreover, the land use life in Thailand is 999, which is a slightly coincidental and strange number. To put it bluntly, it is the right to permanent use.
In addition, Thailand's education system is also perfect. It's nine-year compulsory education, and I really don't pay any money, including tuition, books, brunch and two bottles of milk a day. Not including dinner. The school thinks that students who have dinner must go home and have dinner with their families.
Thailand's medical system is even more amazing. The current medical plan is that regardless of any disease, from small to large, only 30 baht registration fee is needed, which is equivalent to 6 yuan RMB, and all other expenses are borne by the state. Therefore, Thais really don't have any worries in life. They don't need to save money. If they spend it, they will have it tomorrow.
This system leads to the slow temper and inefficiency of Thais. If you are in a hurry, they will tell you "slaughter" slowly, which means stamping slowly when entering the customs. There is no hurry in the long queue. Car horns can never be heard on the streets of Thailand. Even when the traffic jam in Bangkok is very serious, the streets are quiet and every car is waiting step by step.
By the way, our e-passport of Datianchao is really convenient. It takes a few seconds to get in and out of the customs. I think there is a long queue with traditional passports.
On this trip to Thailand, we went to the beautiful island of Samet. In order to protect the environment, it is forbidden to carry disposable plastic bags on the island in Samet Island, and if found, it will be fined. It can be said that the efforts in this regard are still very good. But when I went snorkeling on the island, I found that the arrival of a large number of tourists caused serious damage to the coral reef. When I got off the boat and went snorkeling, I was the first to get into the water. To my surprise, I only saw a blue-green area and couldn't see the bottom of the sea at all. With the consent of the boatman, I took off my life jacket directly and dived for two or three meters before I vaguely saw the bottom of the sea. That is to say, the sea water where I got off the boat is about seven or eight meters deep, but it is not clear. For other people on board who can't swim and can only float in life jackets, they can only look at the tropical fish floating on the sea surface, while I see coral reefs, corals, sea urchins, tiger fish disguised as coral reefs, and a foot-long tropical fish desperately drilling into the cracks in the rocks. To my amazement, due to the arrival of human beings, there are few corals left, almost all of them are gray coral reefs, and occasionally purple corals can be seen flapping around like fans.
The boatmen are all Thai, and there is a little Thai brother who helps snorkeling with the boat. He is really super naughty. I grabbed the tow buckle under the boat in the water, and he suddenly splashed, and I looked puzzled. I looked at him doubtfully, and he casually helped the aunt next to him catch the floating board. Or when I stepped into the water, I suddenly grabbed my foot, which scared me to think that a fish was biting me. He turned his head and pretended that nothing had happened, which made me laugh and cry. But in the end, I have to thank him for allowing me to take off my life jacket. Otherwise, how could I have a chance to see the underwater scenery that others can't see? Later, he shoveled a sea urchin from the bottom of the water with slippers and proudly waved a long thorn.
Next time I plan to go to Chiang Mai, a small town with super healing system, like Lijiang Dali. Only sauce.