🤲🏽🧠 “ขอมือของครู จงกลับเป็นมือของเธอ ขอปัญญาของครู จงกลับเป็นปัญญาของเธอ ขอเธอจงจำเริญในวิชาหมอ” 🌿

🤲🏽🧠 Teachers offer students

blessing of their studies. 🌿

“Wai Khru” (“ไหว้ครู”) is a ceremony which students pay respect and show gratitude to their teachers. It also spiritually formalizes teacher-student relationship. Students present flowers, joss sticks and candles on pedestalled trays to teachers.

One of the flowers that is mostly used

in Wai Khru ritual is “Ixora,” as pronounced in Thai as “Khem” (“เข็ม”) which literally means “needle”. 🪡 Closed pointed bud of this flower is how it derives its Thai name. It connotes smartness and sharp wit,

just as a sharp needle can pierce

through things with its sharpness.

@kenniiwon