Lao Culture & Tradition
Lao Culture & tradition

Tradition

Traditionally, a Buddhist ceremony which is performed every year called Hidsipsong, tradition of twelve month, while the fourteen rules on salutation made by officials, sister-in-law, husband and wife and all Lao people are called Khongsipsi.
These above are intended to express salutation and loving kindness to the god and people.
Basi is a multi-purpose ceremony to express the best wishes for the important days of lives such as new babies, marriages, departures, visiting friends and others. Holy white cotton strings are tied round hands of the women with kaophom, coiled hair style.

Eating:
90% of  Lao people consume sticky rice. The ware kept the rice after steaming is called Tikao or Kongkao and can be taken to every where. The arrangement of food is on the food big plate. The main food are Lap, Koy, Ping……

Housing:
Houses are built on stilt and have free space underneath that roofs a triangle wind plates on each side. There is large sitting room which can be used for any purposes. There are two types of houses; single and a double roofed how many steps on the stairs depends on the height of the house, but traditionally they made uneven numbers such as: three steps, five steps, seven steps and nine steps.

Ways of dressing:
Costumes depend on gender and age regarding to the culture, Lao women dressed properly, because they are mothers of the nation in tradition, Lao women wear the silk skirts, blouses and scarves to attend important ceremonies. Design of Lao women skirts:
1. Design with upper and lower parts.
2. Not too short and not too long.
3. The upper part over the waist.
4. Lower part of skirt suitable.
5. Not too sexy.
Attending significant events, Lao women wear scarves and coiled hair styles. Lao men wear salong, big large pants or the peasant pants to attend the important ceremonies. Paekaoma is used for cleaning the body, covering the head and others.
The costumes in the previous periods: Laos is one old nation in south East Asia. This place where was called Souvan-naphoum and some Lao were settled in South of China called Anachak Ai-Lao.
Men and women dressed same styles of pants of shirts made by textile no colour and they did not have any decoration wares.

Occupation
Rice cultivation, animal husbandry, raising silk worms and handicrafts were main occupations additional Activities were trading, fishery, workers in the plants or officials.

Culture & Society
Smiles, loves liberty, no quarrels, no oppression, respect the nation, reputation and honour with their lives. Commonly Lao people are fully of love and respect others. “ To visit north or south, meal can be requested, but visitors, no need to stay in the hotels or pay for food”.
Sensation
Friendship, love and peace are at the hearts of Lao people. They hate oppressors. Our slogan said United we survive and separate, we die. We hate the conflicts and we can give excuse to others if the cases are reasonable.
Lao territory is very wide. We like literature and arts. Many poets and stories were written by our great authors namely.
Phousonelane, grand father teaches grand son, lanesonephu, grandson teaches grandfather, sonelork in thangane soneluk. Phravetsanedone. Champasitonh, the 4 champa flower trees, kalaket, Tengone. Soulivong kun-thung-kuntheuang and others were written in palm leaves these above poetry are our ancestor hearts  to give us the best loves to our nation.
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