Poi Sang Long Procession.
is in fact the celebration of novice ordination which the Thai Yai tribe people hold to be a highly meritorious occasion. It is traditional for boys between the ages of 7 to14 to enter the monkhood to learn the precepts of Buddha and gain merit for their families. Traditionally, the candidate-novice, he is bathed and anointed with special waters, his head cleanly shaven and wrapped with head-close in the Burmese style, face is powdered, will don a prince-like garment and put on valuable jewels and gems, and ride a horse or be carried over the shoulders of a man to the city shrine On the ordination eve, a procession of offerings and other necessary personal belongings will be paraded through the town streets and then placed at the monastery where the ordination will take place the next day. It is usually held in late March and early April.