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Activities at Phra That Choeng Chum Worawihan Temple

continue on this day. In the evening local residents go to
the Phra That Choeng Chum Worawihan Temple and gather
sand to be deposited in piles topped by flowers in the
temples. This practice is the ancient “raising the temple

grounds” ritual which was necessary in the old days because
then Thai New Year Day was held at the end of the rainy

season in the first month of the old Thai Lunar Calendar.