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Incredible Lanna Style traditional dance performance in Chiang Mai Thailand 2015
Lanna Dance Still Enjoyed Today
The former Kingdom of Lanna (present day Northern Thailand) boasts an age old, unique cultural heritage quite different in many ways from central Thailand. The region owes much of this preservation to a special member of its last royal dynasty a princess who formed the link between the north and Bangkok, and returned home to revitalize the traditions that made north Thailand special. Among her contributions to the region was a revitalization of the art of Lanna dance.
Life of a Princess
Jao (Princess/Prince) Dara Rassamee was born on 26 August 1873 at the Chiangmai Royal Residence. She was one of ten children fathered by Pra Jao Inta Wichayanon, the 7th King of Chiangmai's Tipchang Dynasty, the last dynasty to rule the Kingdom of Lanna. Two of her brothers later became rulers of the northern city. Like her brothers and sisters, she was educated by her mother and father in the Northern Thai (Lanna) language.
She became a royal consort to Siam's King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) when she was just 13 years old, and was assigned the position of overseer of internal palace affairs. The union marked one of the most significant of King Rama V's strategic unions. As the daughter of a Chiangmai king, Princess Dara Rassamee formed an important bond between the two oldest Thai kingdoms in Southeast Asia. In 1893, nine years after her official installment in Bangkok, Chiangmai was formally annexed into the Kingdom of Siam.