Thailand's Crown Prince presides over ploughing ceremony

[Jennifer]

Plentiful water, good harvest and abundant food production — those were the things predicted at today's royal ploughing ceremony at Sanam Luang near the Grand Place, writes Bangkok Post.

Present at the traditional ceremony, which is meant to herald an auspicious start of the rice-planting season, were Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn and his daughter, 36-year-old Princess Bajrakitiyabha, affectionately known as Princess Pa or Patty.

At the ceremony sacred oxen plough a section of a field, after which they are offered plates with rice, beans, alcohol, corn, sesame, grass and water. Depending on what they eat, the traditional soothsayers are able to predict the coming crop year.

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[Jennifer]

In pictures: Royal ploughing ceremony in Thailand

BANGKOK — Plentiful water, good harvest and abundant food production were predicted for the coming crop year by traditional soothsayers at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony at Sanam Luang near the Grand Place today (May 13).

On behalf of His Majesty the King, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, accompanied by Princess Bajrakitiyabha, presided over the ceremony, which marks the beginning of the rice cultivation season today.

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