YANGON (Xinhua): The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has inscribed Myanmar traditional New Year Ata Thingyan festival on the Representative List of the ...

"The dance I performed is from one of Myanmar's traditional Thingyan Water Festival songs. It symbolizes joy, unity, and the spirit of celebrating together," she said.

Both the Chinese Spring Festival and the Myanmar Thingyan Festival have been inscribed as a Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage, demonstrating that cultural symbols of a nation play an important ...

"This year is unique because both China's Spring Festival and Myanmar's Thingyan Water Festival were recently added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Moreover, the Myanmar government ...

In Myanmar, the new year and harvest festival is called Thingyan, also known as the water festival, when water is splashed on others to symbolise purification, cleansing and new beginnings.