TA-ZAUNG-DINE LIGHT FESTIVAL

After four month of rain comes a successions of festive months starting with Thadingyut lights festival. Come Tazaungmone, still another lights festival even more elaborate with the usual trimmings of music, dances and show. It is rather convenient, so say fun-loving Myanmar, that the paper lanterns and decorations are still in fairly good condition to be put up again in three weeks' time.
Tazaungdine festival, as the lights festival in the month of Tazaungmone is called, is more or less a folk festival, probably pre-Buddhist, so originally without any Buddhist significance.