Thai Song Dam, Wang Nam Village, Wang Yang Subdistrict, Khlong Khlung District, Kamphaeng Phet Province
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th The 10 International Conference on Art and Culture Network 11-13 march 2020, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University, Thailand Thai Song Dam, Wang Nam Village, Wang Yang Subdistrict, Khlong Khlung District, Kamphaeng Phet Province Weerawan Jangmo1, Suphachokchai Nanthasri2, Phathooramphai Praphatsorn3, Pimnara Banjong4 and Wanassanan Nutchanart5 Office of Arts and Culture Rajabhat University Kamphaeng Phet 1E-mail : [email protected], Telephone Number : 080-9829596 Introduction The Tai Dam or Thai Song Damis a group of Tai people who originally settle in Sip Song Chu Tai or the Black and Red River Basin in Northern Vietnam, which is the original residence of the Tai Dam and Tai Khao which means White Tai.At present, Sip Song Chu Taiis Vietnam's DienBien Phu province, which has a border with Laos, Phongsali. Nowadays, the name people in Dien Bien Phu province call themselves is "Tai Dam" during the period when France came to rule Vietnam and Laos.They called tribes in the Black River basin Tai Dam. It’s not becausethe Tai Damlived in the Black River Basin, but they preferred to their unique black clothing dyed with the Hom (Baphicacanthus cusia) or Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria). The so-called "Lao Song", in fact, their race is not Laos. The reason for the name is due to the migration from Laos down to Siam. The term "Song people" or "Tai Song Dam" is more acceptable. For instance, a group of people in Phetchaburi is called "Song" or "Thai Song Dam" Picture 1 The province of Vietnam or Laos is the residence to Tai Dam people with Thaeng as a capital. Source: Thai Song Dam, 2019, online 271 The 10th International Conference on Art and Culture Network 11-13 march 2020, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University, Thailand For the name of the Tai Dam or Thai Song Dam tribe in Thailand, there will be, in each province, tribes from various ethnic minorities living together. Each community will have different identities and distinctions. For here, Ban Wang Nam, Khlong Klung District, Kamphaeng Phet Province, the Tai Dam migrated to colonizearound the year 1949 while still having strict cultural identities, such as ancestors’ spirits worship, house spirits worship called Sen-Huan or worship, dressing, house-warming ceremony called Patong, Khawn Fawn Khaenor playingLao reed mouthorgan. This article contains educational materials: 1. History of the Tai Song Dam people in Thailand 2. The history of the Thai Song Dam, Ban Wang Nam, Khlong Khlung District, Kamphaeng Phet Province 3. The languages spoken 4. House and family characteristics 5. Dressing 6. Traditions, cultures, and beliefs 7. Sen-Huan ceremony or worship of household spirits and 8. Food The history of the Thai Song Dam in Thailand In Thailand, besidesnortheastern and northern regions where Tai Dam people have already migrated The Tai Dam people also migrated to the central region. Additionally Thai people call the Tai Dam people Lao Song. It is assumed that probably comes from the term Suang or Song which means pants because these Tai Dam people wear black pants. In the Thonburi period onceKing Taksin the Great hit Vientiane in 1779 B.E., he forcibly detained the Tai Dam people from Sip Song Chu Tai and sent them to settle in Phetchaburi as mentioned in the history of Thailand that "And the following year, to led an army to occupy the capital city of Luang Prabang, to occupy the city of Tan, Muai City. These 2 cities are the cities of Tai Song Dam located in the northern Vietnamese border, then take the Lao Wiang Tai Dam down to Thonburi.In the twelfth month the Tai Song Dam were allowed to live in Phetchaburi " In the reign of King Rama 1, Phra Buddha Yod Fa, Chulalok the Great, Year 1792, gathered the Tai Dam, Lao Phuan, Lao Wiang families to Thailand once again. Sincepeople in Muang Thaeng and Phuan were against Vientiane, the governor of Vientiane led troops to attack Lao Song, Lao Phuan, and Lao Wiang people for about 4,000 families and presented them to the King Phra Buddha Yodfa in Bangkok. The Lao Wiang were allowed to settle in Saraburi.The Lao Phuan were allowed to live in Suphan Buri province. However, Tai Dam came to the village of Nong Lao or Nong Lao (Nong Prong), Nong Prong Subdistrict, Khao Yoi District, Phetchaburi Province. During the reign of King Rama III, King Rama III Anuwong of Laos, Vientiane His Highness went to attack the town of the Tai Dam and forcibly moved them to Bangkok. Then, hehad a proposal for exchanging Tai Dam people with Laos people that had been forcibly gathered during the Thonburi period to go back to Vientiane and requested that the Laos kingdom of Vientiane be independent, not directly to Bangkok, but Rama III did not allow, because if he agreed, other groups of people that Thailand forcibly brought togetherwere probably obdurate.After it didn’t go as Chao Anuwong expected, he returned to Vientiane and began to rebel. 272 The 10 th International Conference on Art and Culture Network 11-13 march 2020, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University, Thailand In the year 1826 - 1828, Chao Anuwong rebelled in Siam and defeated rebels in Vientiane Capital and brought the Tai Dam into Siam again. As recorded by Field Marshal Chao Phraya Surasakmontri, mentioned when he was a general to defeat Ho during the reign of King Rama 5 in B.E. 2487, "King Rama I ordered by His Majesty for the Chao Phraya Thammachat to bring the army to Thaeng. Once theaffair had been organized, he took people in Thaeng and the Sib Song Chu Tai, which were Tai Dam people to Bangkok because they would cause trouble to the government again. Then His Majesty King Rama IV graciously granted for those Black Tai to live in Petchaburi until they received the name "Lao Song". From evidence of the second immigration into Thailand showed that Tai Dam or Thai Song Dam came to settle in Phetchaburi Province for the first place, and according to hearsay from Thai Song Dam, it is described as immigration from the original residence by boat to settle in Tha Raeng Sub-District, Ban Laem District,where is coast area. The Thai Song Dam did not like the terrain in that area. Therefore they relocated continuously to Khao Yoi district where is a forested landscape like the original settlement, and densely populated later, the Thai Song Dam moved to make a living in other places such as Nakhon Pathom, Ratchaburi, Suphan Buri, Phichit, Phitsanulok, Chumphon and Surat Thani. However, Thai Song Dam poeple in those provinces always tell as the same that they came from Phetchaburi Province.There was a battle with The Vietnamese people or the five heads of the six cities of Phuan. When the Siamese army won, they brought the Puan and the Tai Dam people down to Bangkok, and in the year 1836 - 1838, from the chronicles of Luang Prabang, after Chao Anuwong Sawankhat The Lao Vientiane Dynasty collapsed. Laos, Luang Prabang, then directly attended upon to Siam. The viceroy of Luang Prabangwent to attack the Tai Dam people, then forcibly tookthem as tribute to Bangkok During the reign of King Rama 5, King Chulalongkorn defeated the Chin Haw in the land of Laos and ordered to bring the Tai Dam people down to Siam because of the revolt. The Chin Haw burned the Tai Dam in Sip Song Chu Tai, the Thaeng City and many Lao cities to loot. The Tai Dam people fled to Luang Prabang and Vientiane. When he went to defeat rebels in China, he ordered Tai Dam people to come and build houses in Siam. It was the last generationof the Tai Dam people who came to Siam. (Prof. Santi Aphai-Raj. (2019). Thai Song Dam, Ban Wang Nam) The history of the Thai Song Dam, Ban Wang Nam Khlong Klung District, Kamphaeng Phet Province In our country, each province possesses tribes from many different ethnic backgrounds who live together. Each community literally have different identities and distinctions. In Ban Wang Nam, Khlong Khlung District, Kamphaeng Phet Province, Tai Dam people migrated to colonize around the year 1949. 273 The 10th International Conference on Art and Culture Network 11-13 march 2020, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University, Thailand Picture 2 OTOP tourist village, Na Wat Withi, Ban Wang Nam, Khlong Khlung District Kamphaeng Phet Province Source: Tai Song Dam Tourism OTOP Tourism Village, Na Wat Withi, 2019, Online There is still a way of life that is strictly a cultural identity, such as ancestors and spirits warship, dressing, Sen House ceremony, Patong ceremony, Khawn Fawn Khaenor playing Lao reed mouthorgan. The Thai Song Dam had original settlements at original Sip Song Chu Tai or the Black and Red River Valley areas in northern Vietnam, especially in Thaeng or Thaen, where is the original residence of the Tai Dam and Tai Khao people. Sip Song Chu Tai is currently in Dien Bien Phu province of Vietnamwith a border with Phongsali, Laos.People here was once forcibly brought together with the people of Laos from Vientiane.There were 4 exodus since the rebellion: the first time in the reign of King Taksin, the second in the reign of King Rama I,The third in the reign of King Rama III, the fourth in the reign of King Rama V. During the rebellion ofthe Chin Ho,the houses of Thai Dam were burned. Therefore, they immigrated to settle in Phetchaburi Province currently. Thai Song Dam is spread in many provinces; Phetchaburi, Suphan Buri, Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Uthai Thani, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Surat Thani, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit, Phitsanulok, Sukhothai, Loei etc.