A jury from a typical Sino-Thai calendar, showing the solar calendar month of August 2004 ( B.E. 2547 ), vitamin a well as dates according to the Thai and Chinese lunar calendars In Thailand, two main calendar systems are used alongside each other : the Thai solar calendar, based on the Gregorian calendar and is used for official and most daily purposes, and the Thai lunar calendar ( a version of the Buddhist calendar, technically a lunisolar calendar ), used for traditional events and Buddhist religious practices. The use of the solar calendar was introduced in 1889 by King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ), replacing the lunar calendar in official context. The get down of the class was originally marked as April 1st, however this was changed to January 1st in 1941. The days and months now correspond precisely to the Gregorian calendar. The years follow the Buddhist Era, introduced in 1913 to replace the Rattanakosin Era, which in call on replaced the Chula Sakarat in 1889. The think of the Buddhist Era in Thailand is 543 years ahead of the Common Era ( Anno Domini ), so the year 2021 CE corresponds to B.E. 2564. The lunar calendar contains 12 or 13 months in a year, with 15 waxing moon and 14 or 15 wane moonlight days in a month, amounting to years of 354, 355 or 384 days. The years are normally noted by the animal of the chinese zodiac, although there are several dates used to count the New Year.

As with the rest of the universe, the weeklong workweek is used alongside both calendars. The solar calendar nowadays governs most aspects of animation in Thailand, and while official state documents constantly follow the Buddhist Era, the Common Era is besides used by the private sector. The lunar calendar determines the dates of Buddhist holidays, traditional festivals and astrological practices, and the lunar date is hush recorded on parturition certificates and printed in most daily newspapers .

Calendars [edit ]

Birthdays [edit ]

Mundane astrology figures prominently in Thai culture, so modern Thai birth certificates include lunar calendar dates, and the appropriate Chinese calendar zodiacal animal year-name for both Thai Hora ( โหราศาสตร์, ho-ra-sat ) and chinese astrology. Thai birth certificates record the date, calendar month and prison term of parturition, followed by the day of the workweek, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal identify. Thai traditionally reckon age by the 12-year animal-cycle names, with the twelfth and sixtieth anniversaries being of extra significance ; but the official calendar determines senesce at law. For exemplify, 12 August 2004 was observed without respect to the lunar date as Queen Sirikit ‘s birthday, a public vacation besides observed as Thai Mother ‘s Day. Her zodiacal animal is the Monkey and her traditionally significant sixtieth anniversary year was 1992. Born on a Friday, her auspicious birthday color is blasphemous. Thai auspicious colours of the day are given in the postpone of weekdays, followed below it by a associate to the Buddha images for each day of the workweek .

Weeks [edit ]

A week ( สัปดาห์, sapda or सप्ताह, สัปดาหะ, sapdaha from Sanskrit “ seven ” ) is a 7-day period beginning on Sunday and ending Saturday. [ 1 ] Days of the workweek are named after the first seven of the nine indian astrological Navagraha ; i, the sun, moon, and five classical planets .

Weekdays
English name Thai name Thai Pronunciation Colour Sanskrit word Planet
Sunday วันอาทิตย์ wan aathít red Aditya Sun
Monday วันจันทร์ wan chan yellow Chandra Moon
Tuesday วันอังคาร wan angkhaan pink Angaraka Mars
Wednesday วันพุธ wan phút green Budha Mercury
Thursday วันพฤหัสบดี wan phrɯ́hàtsàbɔɔdii orange Brihaspati Jupiter
Friday วันศุกร์ wan sùk blue Shukra Venus
Saturday วันเสาร์ wan sǎo purple Shani Saturn

Note: Colours are those considered auspicious for the given days of the workweek, that of Wednesday day being green and of Wednesday night, light fleeceable. Of Buddha images representing episodes ( ปาง ) from his life, there is one that represents a week and others for each day of the week : Monday has three options that are alike and Wednesday, entirely unlike ones for day and night. [ 2 ] Thai representations of the planets in deity form are below :

Weekends and holidays [edit ]

Saturdays and Sundays ( Thai : เสาร์-อาทิตย์ sao athit ) are observed as legal non-workdays ( วันหยุดราชการ, wan yut ratchakan ) and are generally shown on calendars in bolshevik, as are public holidays. Since 1996 and submit to declaration by the Cabinet of Thailand, public holidays that fall on weekends are followed by Substitution days ( วันชดเชย, wan chot choei ) generally shown in a lighter shade of crimson, as shown above for Monday, 2 August 2004. Buddhist feasts that are public holidays are calculated according to the Thai lunar calendar, so their dates change every year with respect to the solar calendar. Lunar New Year and early feasts observed by Thai Chinese vary with respect to both, as these are calculated according to the chinese calendar .

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