European Journal of Social Sciences Studies
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doi: 10.5281/zenodo.269011
MONITORING AND EVALUATIONS ON THE LOTUS THROWING
TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL IN BANG PHLI COMMUNITIES
CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THAILAND
Utid Kotthanoo1i, Prasit Thongsawai2,
Daranee Deprasert3, Titirat Jaiboon3
1
Maj. Gen., Department of Business Administration,
Southeast Bangkok College, Bang Na, Bangkok, Thailand 10260
2
Dr., Department of Business Administration,
Southeast Bangkok College, Bang Na, Bangkok, Thailand 10260
3
Department of Business Administration,
Southeast Bangkok College, Bang Na, Bangkok, Thailand 10260
Abstract:
The favourite festivals in Thailand; the lotus throwing (Rap Bua) festival in Bang Phli,
Samut Prakan which countless thousands of local public line the banks of Samrong
Canal to throw lotus flowers onto the boat carrying a replica of the famous Buddha
image Luang Poh To was monitoring and evaluated on public’s perceptions of their
participants for obvious reasons at Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai toward their participated
activities. “ssociations between public’s activities and their satisfied of this festival
were assessed. Using the qualitative data with interview, observation, and participated
memberships’ activities were designed from the 10-item Questionnaire on Satisfaction
Inventory (QSI) was validated of 0.88 which sample size consisted of 2,383 persons.
Statistically significant of their different gender also were found. Public’s participating
this festival to their satisfactions were differentiated, the efficiency predictive value (R2)
value indicate that 58% of the variance in their satisfaction assessments also were
associated.
Keywords: monitoring and evaluation, Bang Phli Cultural Communities, Lotus
Throwing (Rab Bua) Festival, celebrative event arrangement
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1. Introduction
Samut Prakan is a central economic province of Thailand whereas established by
surrounding the four provinces which came into force in 1946. This province was
created during the Ayuttaya period, with its administrative centre at Prapadaeng. It
was the sea port of Siam, and was secured with forts, town moats, and town walls.
Altogether six forts were built on both sides of the Chao Phraya River, and on an island
in the river the Pagoda, Phra Samut Chedi, was erected that it’s located the mouth of
the Chao Phraya River on the Gulf of Thailand. Thus the province is also sometimes
called Pak Nam. The part of the province on the west side of the river consists mostly of
rice paddies and shrimp farms as well as mangrove forests, while the eastern part is the
urban centre, including industrial factories. The urbanization on both sides of the
provincial boundary is identical.
The province has a coastline of approximately 47.2 kilometres in area of 1,004.092
square kilometres. Overall on population was contained of 1,261,530 (2015), the
provincial slogan is “Marine Battle Fortresses, Chedi in the Water, Crocodile Farm, Exquisite
Ancient City, Phra Pradaeng Songkran Festival, Tasty Dried Snakeskin Gourami, Rap Bua
Festival, Industrial Estate . The province is subdivided into six districts. Focusing on an
important district, Bang Phli itself is also a subdistrict municipality which covers parts
of the tambon Bang Phli Yai, Bang Pla and Bang Chao Long subdistricts.
Figure 1a: Locations and Places for Tourist in Samut Parkarn Province
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Figure 1b: Locations and Places for Tourist in Samut Parkarn Province
Bang Phli Cultural festival as composes with folk wisdom and cultural heritage that
have been exchanged among public of different ethnic origins. Bang Phli is famous for
the annual Lotus Flower (Rap Bua) festival, which takes venue on the last day of Vassa
on the fourteenth day of the waxing moon in the eleventh lunar month, usually the full
moon in October. A boat carrying a replica of the Luang Poh To Buddha statue from the
temple Wat Bang Pli is moved along the main canal of the district.
The public at the banks of the canal throw lotus flowers onto the boat, as
donating lotus flowers to Buddha is merit-making. The barge processions of Luang Pho
To at Wat Bang Phli Yai on Samrong Canal in the Rap Bua festival at the floating market
using ships for at least 90 years and the first engine ship on Samrong Canal as well as
local fishing gears.
2. Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) Festival
The Lotus Throwing Festival’s roots are thought to have been sewn by the many Mon
public who settled in Samut Prakan province, just south of Bangkok, after fleeing their
war-torn homeland in what’s now southern ”urma during the 1700s. In the old days,
Bang Phli residents received festival-goers by offering them the freshly picked lotuses
that thrived in the area. Rab means to receive , though the festival has also become
known as Yon Bua, or Throw Lotus , for obvious reasons. In front of Wat Bang Phli
Yai Nai along the Samrong Canal in Bang Phli district, the festival still takes venue in a
frenzy of lotus tossing each year.
Rab Bua coincides with “wk Phansa literally
Out of the Rains , a Thai holiday
marking the time when monasticism are free to travel again after spending the
monsoon months in study and meditation. Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai houses Luang Phor
Toh, a sacred ”uddha image that’s said to have miraculously floated down the Chao
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Phraya river centuries ago. During the festival, a replica of the image is taken for a
morning cruise along the canal, symbolizing the re-emergence of the monastic
community after the rains.
Figure 2: The environment activities of the 80th Bang Phli cultural communities through Lotus
Throwing (Rab Bua) festival in the Academic Year 2015 for following celebrative event
Three days of festivities includes folk theatre, beauty contests, a boat decorating
competition, boat racing and a rowboat tug-of-war among other activities. The main
event is an elaborate floating procession that gets underway early by 07:00 on the final
day and features intricately decorated wooden boats rowed by local public in
traditional Thai costumes. Thick crowds throw lotuses at all of the boats, but everyone
makes sure to have a handful ready as the one carrying Luang Phor Toh gets close.
Historical Rab Bau festival was begun with a sacred Buddha image that it was
built up from the public who have taken settlement at the Bang Phli agricultural field
were developed at the three canal intersections, namely, Salode, Choud Rak Koa, and
Lad Kra Bang canals. Relationships between public livelihood and their water canal are
gotten of their careers with on a boat and separated to their vocational agriculture. In
this discovery, a group of Mon was evidenced at the northern watershed from
Paladphieng to Bang Keaw Noi and Mai intersection canals. After they was going on
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transplant rice seedlings rice in May – September, successfully, these agriculturists
would move back to Prapadaeng village and moved to settlement at along Lad Kra
Pang canal bank in short rainy season.
3. Public Faithful on Luang Phor Toh
The faithful nudge and stretch to grab as many lotuses as they can from centrally
located flower bins. Even after living in tightly packed Bangkok for a few years, this
was one of the most crowded scenes having experienced. Expect a fair bit of goodnatured jostling. When Luang Phor Toh is finally within striking distance, the scene
resembles a small, happy riot where lotuses fly rather than tear gas. The crowd pulses
closer to the canal. A few public take an unexpected dip. Hundreds of lotuses are
heaved into the air.
As the golden Buddha approaches, the revellers pause to hold lotuses up to their
foreheads while making a wish or prayer. It’s believed that if your lotus lands on Luang
Phor Toh’s lap, your wish are bound to come true. “ny direct hit means good luck is on
the way. To gain optimal odds, the most serious festival-goers fill up longtail boats with
mounds of lotuses and chase Luang Phor Toh down the canal, flinging as they go.
In this academic year B.E. 2558 (A.D. 2015), the Lotus Throwing Festival was the
80th celebrative arrangement during on 23-26 October for the B.E. 2558 (A.D. 2015) in the
three venues, such as; Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai, Wat Bang Phli Yai Klang, and Bang Phli
District Office that it’s meanwhile as the previous festival in the past, similarly. For
example, there are three days of festivities includes with Luang Phor Toh boat parade,
boating offer food to monks, folk theatre with three tribesmen, beauty contests, a boat
decorating competition, boat racing and a rowboat tug-of-war among other activities
whose were Mon, Laos, and Thai original Bangphli settlements. An important of this
festival, the Ministry of Culture is accepted and National local wisdom asset.
4. Research Methodology
4.1 Research Aims
1. To observe and participate of public who were walk in the 80 th Lotus Throwing
(Rab Bua) festival in the academic year 2015.
2. To compare on gender differences in the perceptions of the 80th Lotus Throwing
(Rab Bua) environments festival in the academic year 2015.
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3. To associate between publics’ perceptions of their participating activities and
their satisfied cultural celebrative event arrangement of the 80 th Lotus Throwing
(Rab Bua) festival.
4.2 Research Procedures
Using the 10-item Questionnaire on Satisfaction Inventory (QSI) and General
Independent data were as followed for assessing public’s perception of their
participating activities and their satisfied cultural celebrative event arrangement of the
80th Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) festival in the academic year 2015 during from 23 to 26
October, 2015. The researcher teams were going on this festival for observing,
interviewing, and collecting data from the research instrument with themselves.
In terms of activity events at Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai includes of worship on
Luang Phor Toh, opening ceremony participant, a boat decorating competition, and
boat racing and a rowboat tug-of-war among other activities. Activity event at Wat
Bang Phli Yai Klang includes of participated singing contests and at Bang Phli District
Office includes that it was followed as: culture yard activities include of Bang Phli
populations of their way of life, bower of sustainable economic, the farmer way of life,
and the way of life of Mon. Activities of the Lotus Throwing Festival were answered
problems of the Lotus Throwing Festival activity. Students’ performance activities,
consequently was musical Thai folk, Higher Educational performance, and Mini concert
were performances. Generally the competition activities; belaying and eating porridge
tie papaya salad, the casing coconut, and football match. Exhibition activities indicated
at that OTOP product was attributable to participants’ perceptions, other product, and
attributably local product.
4.3 Sample Size
The aims of this assessment are to recognize achievements for improving and arranging
event efficiently. Quantitative data with participants’ perceptions of their Lotus
Throwing Festival on venue, participating activities, event’ activities, and event’
successful were assessed. The 40-students from Bangkok campus; South Eastern
University were administered and trained on research procedure for supporting data
corrections which sample consisted of 2,400 copies from the three venue where as the
events of participant of this festival. Most of the 2,383 copies were going on using
sample random that it’s indicated of
.
%, completely.
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4.4 Data Analyses
General Independent data of the sample size was analyzed with the percentage, such
as; gender, age, participating accounting years. Public who were to at this festival were
assessed of their perceptions in Group Activities at Wat Bang Phli Yai, Bang Phli Klang,
and Bang Phli District Office. The Questionnaire on Satisfaction Inventory (QSI)
approximated a 5-point ranking scale, internal consistency reliabilities (alpha
coefficients) were computed for each of the derived factors analysis as specified in
Researchers’ Team. “ series of analyses of variance (ANOVA) was performed on the
participated public at this festival data obtained for the QSI to investigate the sensitivity
to different gender with t-test. “ssociations between public’s perceptions of their
participated festival and their satisfactions were assessed with simple and multiple
correlations, predictive efficiency value with the Liner Regression Satisfactions (R 2).
5. Results
5.1 Validity and Reliability of the Research Instrument
In this study, it was also considered important to investigate associations between
public’s perceptions of their participated Rub ”ua festival environments with their
satisfactions. The Cronbach alpha reliability of the selected QSI was 0.88.
5.2 General Data Background
The results of these findings were to administer of sampling participant of 2,383
persons, to be provided of 42.7 as male and 57.3 was female. Most of age sampling
random was 21-30 years (30.2%) and 23.9% of age was less than 20 years old, and on
this situation was shown of 7.7% indicated that higher than 50 years old, consequently.
Most of public, who were often participated at the first time revealed of 28.6%, and
public who used to participate for the second time evidence of 23.8%, especially, public
who also were participated continuing in 5 years showed of 23.0%, interestingly.
In terms of venue context, it was found that most of public who were tourist and
used to participate and take themselves in the Lotus Throwing Festival of their
activities at Bang Phli Yai Nai indicated evidence of 83.0% and followed as walking
street, Bang Phli Ancient market, boating, and looking at light and sound, consequently.
Focusing on Bang Phli District Office, research committee group was designed to
manage activities that followed as time schedule of the Organizing Committee were
controlled.
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1. Activity Event at Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai includes of worship on Luang Phor
Toh (60.0), opening ceremony participant (31.9%), a boat decorating competition
(18.6%), boat racing and a rowboat tug-of-war among other activities.
2. Activity Event at Wat Bang Phli Yai Klang includes of participated singing
contests (31.3).
3. Activity Event at Bang Phli District Office includes that it was followed as:
3.1 Culture yard activities include of Bang Phli populations of their way of
life (39.4%), bower of sustainable economic (11.5%), the farmer way of life
(10.3) and the way of life of Mon (9.5%).
3.2 Activities of the Lotus Throwing Festival were answered problems of
the Lotus Throwing Festival activity (18.2%).
3.3 Students’ performance activities were included of
. %, consequently
was musical Thai folk (22.6%), Higher Educational performance was
12.0%, and Mini concert of 11.1%, responsibility.
3.4 In terms of competition, belaying and eating porridge tie (19.4%),
papaya salad (17.8%), the casing coconut, and football match (5.8%)
3.5 Exhibition activities indicated at that OTOP product was attributable
to participants’ perceptions of
. %, other product was of
.7% and
attributable local product of 10.0%, consequently. In terms of venue area
events, such as; Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai, Wat Bang Phli Yai Klang, and
Bang Phli District Office were administered and arranged. Public who
were interested into the Lotus Throwing Festival whereas organized
themselves to visit at the walking street (50.3%), Bang Phli Ancient market
was of 27.8%, to give food offerings to a Buddhist monks indicated of
17.8%, to take in boating for watching show of light and sound of 12.0%,
and Thai massage demonstration revealed of 8.6%, interestingly.
4. Public’s Satisfaction on Participating Exhibitors the Lotus Throwing Festival
4.1 Overall on average means scores of participant exhibitors of their
satisfaction were followed as high evidence level to their successes’
responses of 4.19, attributably.
4.2 Consequently participant exhibitors of their satisfaction were
following as:
1) The aims of arranging event
2) The three venues whereas Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai, Wat Bang Phli Yai
Klang, and Bang Phli District Office were interested.
3) To create partnerships with the local community were accepted
4.3 Improvements of exhibition ought to arrange that following as:
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1) Public Relation planning (PR event)
2) Number of events organized
3) Thinking framework of events organized
4) Activity Concordances of events organized
5.3 Comparisons between Gender Differences of their Participating Rub Bua Festival
Using the QSI to compare means of t-test tentative revealed gender differences in
public’s perceptions of their participated at the Rub ”ua festival, satisfactions toward
”ang Phli culture, and festival activities. However, the mean scores of male’s and
female’s responses of their perceptions of .
and 4.1846 which as non-significant,
differently (see in Table 1).
Table 1: Scale Means, Standard Deviation, Cronbach Alpha Reliability, t-test,
ANOVA Results for the 10-item QSI
Scale
N
Means
Standard
Cronbach’s alpha
t-
ANOVA
Deviation
reliability
test
Results (eta )
0.03
Male
1,018
4.1803
5.79
0.89
-
Female
1,365
4.1846
5.48
0.87
0.17
Significant
2
0.86
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
***Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level (2-tailed)
Table 1 shows QSI could be used as either a predictor or an outcome variable
depending upon the research aims being responses; it may also be satisfied similarly.
5.4 Associations between Public’s Perceptions of their Participating Activities and
their Satisfactions of the 80th Bang Phli Cultural Communities through Lotus
Throwing (Rab Bua) Festival
In this study, it was also considered important to investigate associations between
public’s perceptions of this study also indicate that using the QSI helps of public who
were tourist and used to participate and take activity themselves in the Lotus Throwing
Festival of their activities at Bang Phli Yai Nai indicated and followed as walking street,
Bang Phli Ancient market, boating, and looking at light and sound, consequently. These
involved simple correlation and multiple regression analyses of relationships between
the set of actual environment scales as a whole and the QSI that it’s reported in Table .
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Table 2: Associations between the Means of Public’s Participating “ctivities and the QSI in
Term of Simple and Multiple Correlations R and Standardized Regression Coefficient β
Items’ scale
The 10-item of the QSI
Means of Public’s Participating Activities
Simple Correlation Attitude
Standardized Regression Weigh
(r)
Attitude β
0.21**
0.26**
Multiple Correlation (R)
0.7602**
Predictive Efficiency Value (R2)
0.5779**
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
***Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level (2-tailed)
In Table 2, a main method of data analysis was used to investigate this participatingsatisfied relationship. The sample correlation values (r) are reported which show
statistically significant correlations (p<0.05) between public outcomes and their
participating activities and their satisfactions of the 80 th Bang Phli cultural communities
through Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) festival environments. This association is positive
for the QSI their participants where public perceived greater satisfactions. The sample
correlation values (r) are reported which does not show statistically significant
correlations between public satisfactions’ outcomes and their participating activities of
this festival environments. The multiple correlations R were significant for the QSI and
show that when the items are considered together there are significant associations with
the participated festival activities. The R2 value indicated that 58% of the variance in
public’s perceptions to their participating activities and their satisfactions. These factors
appear to be affecting public of 1,382 persons who were satisfied for predicting the 80 th
Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) festival in the academic year B.E. 2558 for following
celebrative event arrangement of Bang Phli cultural communities are managed.
6. Conclusions
This study was to conclude for assessing the 80 th Bang Phli Cultural Communities
through Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) Festival whereas an important favorite festival in
Thailand, it is the Rap Bua Festival in Bang Phli, Samut Prakan. Normally, public
usually go every year now. In English, the festival translates as "Lotus Receiving Festival".
However, it has another name in Thai which public think describes it more accurately.
This is "Yon Bua Festival" which translates as the "Lotus Throwing Festival". Basically,
Public who have happened as countless thousands of local public line the banks of
Samrong Canal to throw lotus flowers onto a boat carrying a replica of the famous
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Buddha image Luang Poh To. Most public go to Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai which, for
obvious reasons, has the best atmosphere. But you can also watch the boat parade from
Bang Phli Old Market, the District Office and Wat Bang Phli Yai Klang. Following close
behind were about five or six large colourful floats. Some were being towed while
others had its’ own rowers all wearing traditional Thai costumes.
Researcher team was designed to administer of this research procedure while
these are often used as standardized methodology into qualitative and quantitative
research methods. However, this paper is reported only quantitative data for identify
public who need and have a idea of what to their satisfactions and participating the 80 th
Bang Phli cultural communities through Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) festival in the
Academic Year B.E. 2558 for following celebrative event arrangement. The results of
these finding are to fit a linear model using regression analysis, ANOVA, which
analyzed to determine how well the model fits the data. To presents a variety to explore
the R-squared (R2) statistic. Differentiated gender was not showed statistically
significant between male’s and female’s perceptions of their satisfactions to their
participated activities at this festival. Importantly, public who were responded of 1,382
of 2,383 persons to satisfy for predicting the 80 th Lotus Throwing (Rab Bua) festival in
the academic year B.E. 2558 for following celebrative event arrangement of Bang Phli
cultural communities are managed, successfully.
7. Research Implementations
The Lotus Throwing Festival at Bang Phli District is local cultural festival activities
attributably; the boat parks in front of Wat Bang Phli Yai Nai, allowing for one last
chance to hit Luang Phor Toh with a lotus. A path is cleared through the thick crowd as
the replica Buddha image is carried back to its usual resting venue. Everyone gathers
round to take pictures as if this inanimate statue were Tom Cruise. Public add a million
lotus flowers, lots of food, a little alcohol, endless other colorful boats and thousands of
onlookers who frantically throw flowers from the side of a canal? It’s the Lotus
Throwing Festival, or Rab Bua, held annually on Awk Pansa day. The exact dates
depend on the moon but usually fall in September or October, to welcome to this Lotus
Throwing Festival, amazingly.
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