page_title: Rocket Festival
section_title: Roi Et's festival
hierarchical_section_title: Rocket Festival / Present day / Roi Et's festival
caption_attribution_description: English: Isan Modifide dressing for Bung Fai parade in Suwannaphume, Roi Et by Look Lanh Muang Sriphume club
context_page_description: A Rocket Festival is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced by ethnic Lao people throughout much of Isan and Laos, in numerous villages and municipalities near the beginning of the wet season. Celebrations typically include preliminary music and dance performances, competitive processions of floats, dancers and musicians on the second day, and culminating on the third day in competitive firings of home-made rockets. Local participants and sponsors use the occasion to enhance their social prestige, as is customary in traditional Buddhist folk festivals throughout Southeast Asia.
  Festival period: April - June. The Festival is most famous and widely known and are special programs and specific local patterns like Bung Fai or Parade dance and Beautiful Bung Fai float in Thailand such as Yasothon the second weekend of May, Suwannaphum District, Roi Et the first weekend of June, Phanom Phrai District Roi Et on full moon of the seventh month in Lunar year's calendar each year.
  The Bung Fai festival is not only found in Isan or Northeasthern Thailand and North Thailand and Laos, but also in Amphoe Sukhirin, Narathiwat.
context_section_description: Bang Fai Festival is traditional of Isan and Laotian peoples culture that could be found this festival throughout a country where living place of Isan People. In Roi Et province have two places which widely known and favorite festival in term of the most number of Bang Fai Ei or Bung Fai decorated car in Thailand in Suwannaphume district. In Suwannaphume not only found the number of the most beautiful Bang Fai and the most number of beautiful Bung Fai parade dance by dramatic art collage student but also the only one community that made and Bung Fai decoration by a papers cutting technique call "Lai Sri Phume". In the other hand Roi Et province is well known for Isan peoples which the most favorite in term of originally of local culture with preserve traditional pattern of Bang Fai Festival and the most number of Rocket or Bang Fai in the world in Phanom Prai both are locate in Roi Et province. Today the beautiful Bung Fai float car which show in Yasothon Bang Fai Festival 8 in 9 float cars are made in Roi Et province ( At Samat District, Selaphume District, Thawat Buri District, et al.) and them rent form Roi Et more than 40 years ago.
caption: Isan dress for Bung Fai parade in Suwannaphume, Roi Et
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