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Shwe Kyun Pin Nat Festival in Mingun
The Shwe Kyun Pin Nat Festival is a regional spirit festival held near Mingun from the fifth to tenth waxing days of Tabaung, roughly late February into March. It honors the Shwe Kyun Pin nats, a brother and sister of Shan ethnicity who, according to local tradition, drowned while clinging to a floating teak log. Farmers arrive in decorated bullock carts and mediums perform ritual nat dances seeking a good harvest.
Near the town of Mingun, on the west bank of the Irrawaddy across from Mandalay, an annual festival honors two nats known as the Shwe Kyun Pin spirits, a brother and sister said to have been of Shan ethnicity who drowned after clinging to a log of teak wood as it was swept along by floodwater.