Water Festival - Myanmar's traditional New Year Festival (13-17 April)

This festival is  known  as Myanmar's Traditional  New Year Festival or the Water Festival. Every Myanmar citizen is happy on this day and  month.

There are  twelve months  in  Myanmar calendar  too. The  first month of each year is calculated  from  April and  the last  one is  March. According  to Myanmar  calendar, New Year Day falls on  every  second  week  of April.

There's a tradition to celebrate the water festival all over the country for 3 days before New Year day by throwing water on each other.

According to the proofs and  references, this sort of water festival has been celebrated in Myanmar since 500 years ago.  In Myanmar  this  festival is  called 'Thingyan' means "moving  from  one year  to another".