Travel - Festive Thailand

In 1940, Thailand moved its New Year's Day from April 13 to January 1 New Year's old is still a holiday called Songkran. Will be counted as a year BE (BE) started 543 years earlier than the Christian era is the year 2002 AD is 2545.

Festivals in Thailand are either Buddhist, Chinese, animist, or associated with the monarchy. Buddhist festivals Chinese lunar and generally fall into the full moon festival animist such as Songkran or Loi Krathong is sun or moon during the holiday falls on King as a special example of the founder of the Chakri dynasty, present, or birthday. of Reigning king.

Deepest spirit of the Thai holiday of Vesak Bucha held on the night of full moon in May It commemorates the day that the Buddha, achieved enlightenment and died.

Visakha Bucha Day is marked with worship and preaching to eat - culminating in a candlelit evening procession known as the Wien Thien celebrants circle measured three times in honor of Three Jewels of Buddhism - Buddha Dhamma (teachings). and the monks (community of monks).

The most active of the Songkran festival in Thailand is the Thai New Year officially binding until 1941 was the movement of the sun, modern Songkran takes place from 13 to 15 April.

Songkran began as a bathing rite for Buddha images as part of the spring New Year's cleaning ritual, but has degenerated over the years, free admission - for - fighting all the water on the road is filled with revelers, armed with guns, water. , bottles and tanks.

Although Songkran is celebrated throughout the country, it might have made the most delicious in the tourist center of Khao San Road, Bangkok and Chiang Mai in the north of the capital.

Southern Chinese island with a population as large as the scene of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival held during the ninth lunar month each year. Events in ten days and more than participant observation, vegetarian rituals associated with the shrines and temples with Chinese firewalking and operating their own mutilations carried out by devotees known as the music. These songs are in the numerator happy and forget the pain they climb up the stairs with bladed rungs, walking barefoot over hot coal and put the wood to jump through their cheeks.

Event Phuket Vegetarian Festival dates back to 1825 at that time, many people in China work in tin mines in Phuket. Chinese opera troupe lost to the illness of their vegetarian diet. This impressed many people in the Vegetarian Festival started.

Afternoon before the festival, celebrants raise a high pole (pole to Teng) to each measurement is going down the invitation. Then at midnight they were adorned with nine light poles to mark the opening ceremony of the festival.

Over the next ten days, ceremonies such as praying God's Pak Lam Tao and Tao, the procession of images of angels and the feats of the music festival ends with merit ceremonies at the temple of God and export.

Thailand is a land rich in culture and tradition and how the best and most moving to experience the pleasure of the Eastern Kingdom is to join one of the festivals and ceremonies that decorate the calendar.