The Study Way of Life, Culture, Tradition of the Majority of People at the Community of Ban Namuang, Chattrakarn District, Phitsanulok Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the way of life, culture, tradition of the majority of the people at the community of Ban Namuang, Chattrakarn District, Phitsanulok Province, 2) to examine how they inherit their way of life, culture and tradition of Lao people, and investigate a guideline to promote cultural tourism complying with their way of life. The data were collected interview, and observation form. The participants were representatives from the community doing weaving cloth activity and preparing local cuisine.  The results revealed that the people’s way of life, culture and tradition were related to the nature and the supernatural in three main facets: earning a living, social relation, and their well-being, which are shaped to be their belief and rites. They are called heet-12 (Twelve Traditions) and khong-14 (Fourteen Principles) controlling the ethics, moral and the practice of the people in the village for the sake of peaceful life. Also, it was found that the inheritance of the way of life, culture and tradition of Lao people at Ban Namuang, was supported by the family system, the belief in ghosts or the supernatural, the firm relation of the community members, the strength of culture/important tradition of the community, and the belief in Buddhism. This can be carried out in three forms: 1) inheriting and transferring by the family members, 2) keeping the data with the local scholars and knowledgeable people, 3) the community, temple and educational institutes’ getting involved in the heritance of culture, tradition of the village. It was suggested that cultural tourism should be promoted to comply with the people’s way of life, culture and tradition