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Tabaung (March) is the 12th month of Myanmar calendar and it is the last month of the year.
Being a transition between winter and summer, Tabaung still covers winter for its first half which is from the 1st to the 15th and enters into summer half which is from the 16th to the 30th. Days in this month are getting warm while nights remain still cold. This peculiar weather gave rise to an old Myanmar saying “Days are warm and nights are chilly, Tabaung is the month so unruly”.
The word “Tabaung” means it is the month for yearning or longing or reminiscence. As the month is so beautiful and pleasant that one recalls one’s sweet memories or one longs or yearns for one’s loved ones.
Tabaung is described as the queen of all months because it is in this month that natural landscape bursts forth all its beauties and splendors.
Sky and clouds change their colors and designs, woodlands put on all hues, foliage bears a variety of green, lakes turn emerald green or sapphire blue, cuckoos sing to hearld summer, doves coo continuously to prepare for their mating game.
Sparrows repair and renovate their nests in anticipation of the monsoon. There is the smell of farm fire burning somewhere. At dusk sweet fragrance of seasonal flora is wafted by the gentle breeze.
The whole nocturnal scene is caressed by the silvery moonbeams. This is poetic Tabaung.
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