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Lion of Central Thailand

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       **The watermark has to be in place, sorry. I decided to upload this art here first before I'll make a post on FB where this project initially belongs to. Thai art thieves are darn vicious I don't trust to post this art without watermark.


       A week ago or so someone made a FB post about how she wants to round up people to draw personifications of all 77 provinces of Thailand, no different from Hetalia concept so to say. Except, well...there's additional 'Thailand otome' theme ('otome' is a genre of game that you play a main character who is a girl and try to get one of several male characters in the game to be your BF). Basically, one is required to live or originally comes from the province they chooses to draw as personification, then designs a male personification of that province wearing local costume(or modified Thai traditional costume from the same area) adorned with famous landmarks or local products from each province.

       Well, here is the province I'm living in, which the name written in the pic means 'city of lion'. (sorry, I'm trying to avoid typing the name anywhere because I don't want it to be available for searching on google)


       Bullet; Black Bullet; Black Explanation of the province's specialties decorated along with the personification::Bullet; Black Bullet; Black

       :lionoid: Nang Yai(Shadow puppet - Wikipedia page about it) from Wat Sawang Arom
       -  One of the last three places in Thailand where shadow puppets troupe still show this kind of traditional entertainment. Normally they usually hold an annual show in early April on the sandy bank of Chao Phraya River in front of wat(temple). Though they don't organize a show very often, one can always visit the shadow puppets museum in the temple area everyday for free.

       :lionoid: Snakehead sculpture
       -  Snakehead (known as 'Pla Chon' in Thai) is a native fish that is very much widespread in all water body in the province. It has become a symbol of this province and one of the most popular menus is 'grilled Mae La snakehead' (Mae La is a name of narrow canal that flows through the province). Also, one of the annual festivals here is fish eating festival ('Kin Pla' festival in Thai). During the period when this festival occurs, there will be several sculptures of fish species native to Thai rivers. In old time they're probably made from straw or wood, I'm not sure, but nowadays most of them are made from fiberglass.

        :lionoid: Khanom Pia Pak Bang (the red box and the piece of pastry in his mouth)
       -  ...I'm not the best person to explain about local food TBH, Khanom Pia is something similar to Chinese Mooncake and of course it's also originated from Chinese people who migrated to Thailand. There are quite a number of Chinese migrants in this province (my maternal grandma is one of them) and those who settled in Pak Bang sub-district developed a special type of Khanom Pia which becomes popular among tourists to the point it has become the must-buy pastry for people who visit here.

       :lionoid: Khong (that bamboo whiskered vase-liked thing near his hip)
       -  Fishery is one of the main agriculture activities in this area, considering we have three rivers passing through the province (Chao Phraya, Noi and Lopburi) and numerous canals. Khong is a traditional Thai whiskered vase...or something used for storing fishes one caught. There will be a kind of thin cover beneath the mouth to prevent fish from escaping.

       :lionoid: Four-eared jar (Hai Si Hu)
       -  There is an archaeology site along the Noi River that was once a major ceramic/terracotta production site. The most unique earthenware found on that site is the four-eared jar. Now the thing is, in Thai language we usually call half-circle shaped handler of pot or cup as 'hu'(literally 'ear'). With this jar shown in the art has four of such handlers, that's where the name came from. No other site of ancient pottery production in Thailand seemed to produce the same type of this terracotta jar, thus it has been considered as one of the province's symbols.


       Now I'll have to start drawing a chibi of my province's personification wearing his shirt normally, instead of being in 'ready to tackle snakehead' mode like this. XD Is he going to my only Thai Hetalia OC? Who knows...
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