{"id":378,"date":"2011-11-11T21:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moemaka.org\/wp\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-11-11T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:15:03","slug":"tanhsungmone-and-the-medicine-night-by-junior-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2011\/11\/tanhsungmone-and-the-medicine-night-by-junior-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanhsungmone and the Medicine Night by Junior Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n
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In this month, 10th<\/sup> of November is the full moon day of Tanhsaungmone. So there are three days of lights festival, namely the day before the full moon day, the full moon day and the day after. Colored electric bulbs and lighting candles are in the streets, houses and public buildings. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2018An outburst of energy in meritorious deeds under cloudless sky and myriad lights.\u2019 <\/span>quoted from the Burmese poem found in the Burmese calendar which was drawn by famous artist U BaKyi.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2018The Medicine Night\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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The day after the full moon day of Tanhsaungtaing (11th<\/sup> November of this year) is the significant day of Burmese people. We believe that it is the day all the stars are surely in the sky. No star can be hidden! It represents that what we eat in this night effect our health even the water you drink an effective medicine for us. <\/span><\/div>\n
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So, to have more effective medicine, we must eat \u2018Mei Za Li buds\u2019 (natural buds from plant) by the instruction of the astrologer for what time we will have to eat. I remembered last year of Tanhsaungtaing, on the day after the full moon day, we ate \u2018Mei Za Li\u2019 at 11:35?PM by the instruction of the astrologer. The original taste was very bitter. So we mixed with lime, onion, salt, sugar, sesame-oil and other materials to have a best taste. We believed that it would be good for our health for the coming year. We have to buy this thing as quickly as possible in the market on that day because it would be out of sold for everybody was going to have it!<\/span><\/div>\n
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There were songs and poems that honored and praised the day after full moon day. Some love-song was filled with romance; \u2018I miss you especially tonight more than any other starry nights\u2019 or \u2018Why we two cannot be together tonight even all the stars can meet in the sky?\u2019. <\/span><\/div>\n
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(photo-above-(left)- Illustration of Tahsaungtaing festival in Burma. It was from the calendar drawn by famous artist U BaKyi<\/span>(1912 \u2013 2000)<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
(right) \u2013 What you see \u2018Mei Za Li\u2019 buds that we must eat, good for health especially at the night of the day after the full moon day.)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Tanhsaungmone and The Medicine Night<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Come Tanhsaungmone(Tahsaungtaing), the 8th<\/sup> month of the Burmese calendar, another lights festival even more elaborate with the usual trimming of music, dances, and shows. Tanhsaungmone festival is the lights festival in the month of tanhsaungmone(November). The month is the time for offering special robes and other gifts to the monks. <\/span><\/p>\n

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