WatsWat Jong Soong
วัดจองสูง
Mae Sariang's Shan temple, and the furthest south the naming pattern reaches on this loop.
What it is
In the middle of Mae Sariang, with the whitewashed tiered chedis and the tin roofs of the Shan-Burmese manner rather than the Lanna one.
The long version
Inference — Mae Sariang is the southern Shan town on this circuit, and this temple is the clearest single piece of evidence for that. From here south and east the architecture turns Lanna; from here north and west it stays Shan all the way to the border.
OpenStreetMap maps eighteen named temples within fifteen kilometres of Mae Sariang. This is the only one carrying the Shan word, which is a smaller share than Mae Hong Son's three in ten — the pattern thins as you go south, which is what you would expect of a cultural gradient rather than a line.
Inference — for a rider it is a five-minute stop in the middle of a town you are probably sleeping in anyway, on the longest and emptiest leg of the circuit. It is the leg that most needs a reason to slow down.
Runs with
- townMae Sariang — The town it is in.
- watWhy the temples here are called Chong — The pattern, and where it thins out.
- legMae Sariang to Hot — The leg that needs a reason to stop.
Named here by
- watWhy the temples here are called Chong — The one in Mae Sariang.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | harvested | OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap contributors
- Mae Sariang district — Wikipedia (en)
- Shan people — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there