Lanna Crafts VII

Lanna Cultures & Traditions (cont.):

Mores are developed from Moralities which are about sentiment of each human being or each community on right or wrong actions depending on conscience of individual or group. For Lanna Mores, there are many of them as follows:

Picture of flower offerings called
Baai Sri

- Pid-pee is about the sexual harassment of young people from “touching or holding one’s hands” to “lose one’s virginity”. Lanna people consider this manner as wrong or irreverent against ancestors’ spirits and/or household spirits. The pid-pee family will get penalty from the spirits by illness or various disasters. If two families can be negotiable to let both living as a couple, there will be a process called ‘Sai-pee’ or ‘Sier-pee’ which allow the man side to ask for forgiveness by giving candles, flowers, money and other offerings to the spirits.

- Pid-reed or Pid-heet refers to distinct activities from family’s or community’s traditions, such as changing the date of village spirit ceremony from Songkran’s festival to another month, or changing the strict spirits’ offerings from chicken to be convenient dry food or noodle, etc. Pid-reed might effect to get any disaster to that person or to that city.

- The other significant bad mores are: the wrong or bad activities against the moralities, such as incest or destruction of human being, not taking care of parents, etc. called Pid-Clong, the irreverent or non-respect to teacher called Pid-Croo, the inappropriate actions when entering into the forest, such as bad words, speaking as bad omen, etc. called Pid-Pa, the violating the village’s rules or city’s rules, such as cutting down the main tree of village, urging people to killing or schism, etc. called Pid-Baan and Pid-Muang, respectively. All these bad mores might lead to the ruin, disaster, unfortunate, distress or anxiety to the person, family or city.

Today recommended Crafts/Handmade Products:

Carnelian Cluster Earrings,
'Chiang Rai Feast'

- ‘Carnelian Cluster Earrings, 'Chiang Rai Feast'’, from NOVICA*, crafted by hand threading carnelians, dyed blue resin and glass beads with silk core. They rest over purple dyed quartz in earrings that hang from .925 sterling silver hooks.

*NOVICA: who works in association with National Geographic, searches the world to work directly with the finest artisan designers.

Keychain bag decoration

- ‘Keychain bag decoration', keychain bag decoration make from pompom, dimensions: 8.00" h x 2.00" w x 8.00" l, .22 pounds.

(To be continued)