Festivals in Thailand are impressive and unique

1, Water Festival - Tet Songkran

Songkran takes place from April 13-15 every year, which is the traditional New Year to welcome the Thai people. On this occasion in Thailand, there are many activities, rituals to welcome the new year, especially the Songkran water festival. Thai people eagerly hang lights, decorate their homes, shop, and prepare for Tet. Traditionally, in the early morning of the year, people will bring flowers and offerings to the temple to listen to the lecture. Then go to the street to participate in the Songkran water festival.

2, Loy Krathong lighthouse festival

Loy Krathong Festival is the second largest festival in Thailand in 2019. It is a traditional Thai festival held on the full moon in December according to the lunar calendar. With the meaning of remembering the water goddess has given people abundant water. Release the light of a flower to ward off the unfortunate things and pray that good things will come. The four provinces with the largest Loy Krathong festivals are: Chiang mai, Ayutthaya, Bangkok and Sukhothai. In addition to the light of the lanterns, during the Loy Krathong festival there are other activities: the Krathong lamp making competition, folk games, performing arts, ...

3, Buddhist Festival - Khao Phansa

The Khao Phansa Festival takes place in July of the year, which is the beginning of the Buddhist Settlement season. And also the end of the annual monsoon. The Settlement season will end three months after the Kathin period, when people give new robes to the monks. Also according to the traditional calendar, on the New Year's Day on April 13, many Thai teenagers also come down to their monk's hair to practice filial piety and bless their parents, which is a fairly common tradition among Thai people.

4, Candle Festival

Candle festivals are derived from the traditional rituals surrounding the July Buddhist settlements season of Thai Buddhists. According to legend, when the rainy season comes from the beginning is also the time when people prepare for the crop. The Buddha issued a decree asking monks not to go on a pilgrimage during this time, but to stay in the temple to pray, fearing that the monks when pilgrims would trample on the rice tops made the harvest fail. bowl. The biggest candle festival is in the Issan region. If you travel to Thailand to coincide with the holidays, you will admire the other giant wax statues. Street parades, processions of statues and performances of ethnic dances.

5, Yi Peng Lighthouse Festival

A festival in Thailand 2019 enjoyed by many visitors, taking place in November of the calendar year. During this festival season along the banks of the Peng River, there are thousands of sky lanterns emitted in the sky, which is very beautiful. Taking place around November of the annual calendar in Chiang Mai is considered the most impressive place to participate in the sky lantern festival.

6, Vegetarian Festival

October 10 is the opening day of the fasting, this is an annual activity on a large scale, dating from the nineteenth century brought by immigrants. In the morning, people gathered on the road. During the festival, Chinese Buddhists will follow a strict vegetarian diet, wear white clothes, follow a series of rules of purification of the mind and body, creating blessings.

On the 6th day of the vegetarian festival, after fasting for a few days, Buddhists performed the acts of self-piercing the body, piercing needles into the body and walking on hot coals. During the vegetarian festival, devotees must follow the rules of abstinence from eating meat, drinking alcohol and having sex. Thai people believe that, during the 9 days of the festival, there will be 9 low-earth gods helping to make a peaceful life and a bumper crop next year.

7, Thai buffalo racing festival

Buffalo racing is one of the unique festivals in Thailand 2019, with a tradition of over 100 years. Usually takes place in Chonburi in October of the year, about 1 hour drive from Bangkok. In addition to admiring the buffalo racing displays, visitors will also have the opportunity to enjoy many other activities that take place such as: fairs, Muay