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เธงเธฒเธฃเธชเธฒเธฃเธงเธดเธเธขเธฑ เธงเธฑเธ’เธเธเธฃเธฃเธก เน’เน•เน–เน– (เธเธ—เธต เนเธต เน• เธเธเธเธฑ เธ—เธตเน เน’)
A ceremonial music in Won Wai Sang
ritual of the Wang-Ga Mon ethnic groups
in Nong-Lu Subdistrict, Sangkhlaburi
District, Kanchanaburi Province
Acting Sub Lt. Narudol Phuakampai
Abstract
Won Wai Sang ritual in the royal cremation of Prakru Wimonkanchanakun in Nong-Lu
Subdistrict, Sangkhlaburi District, Kanchanaburi Province had functional and social
significance not only to the Mon ethnic group in Kangkhlaburi District but also to other
Mon ethnic groups across Thailand due to its intrinsically syncretic Thai-Raman culture.
The involved community appreciated the value of preserving the Thai-Raman arts and
cultures while promulgating them simultaneously. The late Luangpoh Uttama (Pra Ratcha-
Udom-Mongkon) had laid the principles of leading oneโ€s life, such as self-behavior and
cultural participation. His teachings, so firmly observed by the Mon people in Sankhlaburi
District even after his passing that it became the communityโ€s strong virtues, were now
being vigorously maintained as an identity of the Mon ethnic group in Sangkhlaburi District
by Pramaha Suchat Siripanyo.
Wang-Ga community was the second village in Nong-Lu Subdistrict, Sangkhlaburi
District, Kanchanaburi Province. Most of its residences were of Thai-Mon lineage and had
a distinctive lifestyle in terms of language, dressing, tradition, culture, food, etc., All of
which had been transmitted from one generation to another. Although changes had been
made to these characteristics to accommodate present situation, their core practical
values remained intact. Won Wai Sang was an inherited ritual and embodied in it including
branches of artistic epistemology in the field of music, dance, Mon architecture
and visual arts, and folklore.
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