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Monday 26 December 2011

Culture and folklore

          A third theory propounds that the Thai were originally of Austronesian rather than Mongoloid stock and had migrated northwards from the Malay Archipelago. The most conving theory, however, is that which relies largeiy on linguistic evidence. From research done in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan, where the thai language is still spoken, the proponents of this theory maintain that the Thai migrated southward from these provinces.
The fifth, and latest, hypothesis claims that archaeological and anthropological evidence prove that Thailand has been inhabited continuously since prehistoric times and that ethnic groups mixed with each other until it was difficult to tell them apart. Animism, material.
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Culture,and folklore,however,point to a continuity in the settlement of this area.   This hypothesis has been cogently put forward by ins proponents, but it avoids   too conveniently the issue of Thai migraton by maintaining that the Thai have been here all along, the present-day Thai nation being but a mixture of various races.

Sunday 25 December 2011

The Emergence of the Thai


The origin of the Thais (or Tai) race is shrouded in mystery. Many theories and hypotheses have been put forward, some more convincing than others.
          One theory holds that the Thai race emigrated southwards indo Southeast Asia from the Altai mountain range in north western China and Mongolia; but

         Since archeological, ethnographic, and linguistic researches do not bear this out, the theory now has few champions. Another convincing hypothesis contends that the Thai, having migrated from Sichuan province in central China, founded a kingdom in southern China called Nanchao, from which they were driven further south by the all-conquering Mongol ruler Kublai (Kublai Khan) in 1253, into Indochina and present-day Thailand. This theory is not very tenable because Nanchao was not a Thai-domi-nated kingdom, and it also appears that Thai had emigrated into the area that is now Thailand well before 1253.