UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE CULTURES IN AYUTTHAYA
Ayutthaya
is an extremely important province in Thailand. It was once one of the world
largest area and a center of global diplomacy and commerce. Ayutthaya have a
lot of Buddhist temples because Ayutthaya’s main religion was Theravada
Buddhist. Ayutthaya have a lot interesting culture. There are a lot of myth and
epic stories from the past. There is a story about Ramakien provide the Siamese
with a dramatic material. They developed classical dramatic forms of expression
called khon (Thai: โขน) and lakhon (Thai: ละคร). This Siamese drama and
classical dance spread throughout mainland Southeast Asian and influenced
culture in a most of countries (Burma, Cambodia, and Laos). Thai art already
highly evolved by the 17th century and it also have a very great detail. The Siamese
have three sorts of Stage Plays: They called it Cone is a dancer to the sound
of instruments such as violin. Then they use a mask and armor to look like a
combat rather than a dancer. Most of their masks are hideous, and represent a
devil. Lacone is a show that comes from a epic and dramatic poem which lasts
three days.The Rabam is a couple dance,
which is gallant they can perform it effortless and the moves were so simple
and slow.
Entering
the Ayutthaya era (1350-1767), a new traditional musical instrument, cha-khe,
and rammana, was created, making Thai traditional music more developed and
making it popular at that time. The music was so popular that it was sung by
people who were in the king's palace, which finally disturbed the comfort of
the king and his family, so the king forbade singing and playing that song.
Ayutthaya
was a kingdom that has a lot of literary production and many literary
masterpieces in Thai language. Their literary production and influenced by
verse composition whereas prose works were reserved to a historical chronicle.
There are also a lot of works in the nature of epic poetry that use Thai
language. Their poetry usually used poetical forms that have been shared
between the speakers since ancient time (before the emergence of Siam). such
as rai (ร่าย), khlong (โคลง), kap (กาพย์) and klon (กลอน).
When you visited Ayutthaya, do their famous foods like Kway Teow Reua (Boat Noodles), and Roti Sai (Rolled Pancakes with Candy Floss. Usually, Kway Teow Reua was originally sold at river canals a on a floating boat but right now a lot of places already and they moved to land. Roti Sai or Roti sai mai (Thai: โรตีสายไหม, pronounced [rōːtīː sǎːj mǎj]; "sai mai" literally means "silk rope")is a well-known Ayutthaya’s dessert. It is available at street stalls in Thailand and usually sold by Muslim vendors.
Reflection:
When I do a research about
Ayutthaya, at first, I feel like Ayutthaya it's just a small kingdom because I
never heard it before and maybe not much culture about it. But after I do a lot
of research about Ayutthaya culture, there are a lot of unique cultures from
arts, performance, literature and also food. Even until today some of them
still remembered and we must preserve it! Every culture that Ayutthaya has it's really interesting work of art. Even though almost all of culture from the past, but today we still find out about it and it became more and more valuable as time goes by.
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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