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Background of the Traditional Rocket Festival in Laos

This Festival is one of the twelve traditional festivals celebrated in Laos. It is usually held during the 6th lunar month, at the beginning of the rainy season (usually in May or early June) to coincide with the planting season. The annual Rocket Festival is held to beseech the God of Rain, called ‘Phraya Thaen,’ to have the rains arrive in a timely fashion for cultivation. The Rocket Festival is considered by the Lao people to be a joyful and fun-filled celebration.

The Festival includes a procession of groups of villagers carrying rockets while singing in a ‘call and response’ style. Their songs are poetic in nature and use sexual themes that symbolize fertility. The humor used in the songs brings laughter to the spectators. The songs symbolize the relationships between heaven and earth as well as between men and women. The songs celebrate the forces of procreation and the abundance of life. They all relate to the need for the annual rains to fall at the proper times to support the growth of the yearly crops.

The Rocket Festival is derived from historical times and mentioned in tales such as ‘The Tale of Pha Daeng-Nang Ai’ and ‘The Tale of Phraya Khankhak (Lord of the Toads).’ Both stories refer to the firing of rockets to the heavens to ask the God of Rain to magically make the rains begin each year. The Lao people consider this Festival to be a very important tradition that must be observed. They believe that in any year that the Rocket Festival is not held, there could be disasters such as crop failures and famine. More about these stories can be found below.

The origin of the Rocket Festival dates back to ancient times. This important tradition has been celebrated by the Lao people fro centuries. The Festival combines the energy and unity of the people in beseeching the heavens for ample and timely rainfall to prevent drought and famine.

Even though the level of belief in asking the God of rain for rainfall has declined over time, nevertheless the Lao people still believe in the importance of holding the Rocket Festival so that the rains will fall before the planting season. Besides the Rocket Festival, religious ceremonies in which senior Buddhist monks pour holy water on local Buddha statues are also held at this time.

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RH145 - 1300's to 1500's Medieval Men's Tabard Cape Pattern, One size fits all. Loose fitting circular cape, belted in front. A tabard is a short coat, either sleeveless, or with short sleeves or shoulder pieces, which was a common item of men's clothing in the Middle Ages, usually for outdoors. It might be belted, or not. Tabards might be emblazoned on the front and back with a coat of arms, and in this (livery) form they survive now as the distinctive garment of officers of arms in heraldry. A Tabard (from the French tabarde) was originally a humble outer garment of tunic form, generally without sleeves, worn by peasants, monks and foot-soldiers, including Chaucer's ploughman. In this sense the first OED citation is 1300. In the late middle ages tabards, now open at the sides and so usually belted, were worn by knights over their armour, and usually emblazoned with their arms (though sometimes worn plain). OED first records this use in English in 1450. In this meaning they were apparently distinguished from surcoats by being open at the side, and by being shorter. These became an important means of battlefield identification with the development of plate armor as the use of shields declined. A very expensive, but plain, garment described as a tabard is worn by Giovanni Arnolfini in the Arnolfini Portrait of 1434 (National Gallery, London). This may be made of silk velvet and is trimmed and fully lined with fur, possibly sable. Similarly at Queens College, Oxford, the scholars on the foundation were called tabarders, from the tabard, obviously not an emblazoned garment, which they wore. In the case of Royal officers of arms, the tabard is emblazoned with the coat of arms of the sovereign. Private officers of arms, such as still exist in Scotland, likewise make use of tabards emblazoned with the coat of arms of the person who employs them. Categories: Medieval Military uniforms, Medieval Heraldry, Medieval History of clothing (Europe).