Buddhist Lent Day is a period of three lunar months during the rainy season when monks are required to remain in the temple or wat. For Thai families, it is also the day they welcome a son back into the home and celebrate his successful completion of a term in the temple. Visitors can participate in a traditional "Tak Bat Thevo" ceremony, or the early morning alms giving to monks. It involves offering sticky rice wrapped in coconut leaves, presented on the important final days of the three-month Buddhist Lent.
The people in rural areas of Chainat usually group together in neighborhoods to join in organising post-Lent religious festivals. The purpose for folks to group together is to form boat races among the din of cheerful crowd and long-tailed drum parade.