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Colourful annual vegetarian festival in Thailand's South
BANGKOK, October 2 (TNA) - Millions of Thai of Chinese descent plus tourists from neighbouring countries have joined in the annual colourful vegetarian festival, began on September 27 and ends this October 5, held in the South.
The festival atmosphere in the southern resort of Phuket, known as the pearl of the Andaman, continues to be active as Thais and tourists flocked to a 108-year-old Chinese temple located in Muang District with more than 300 performers participated in the ceremony early Sunday. They later marched through streets in the provincial island as worshippers lined up the street and lighted firecrackers to welcome them.
Several Chinese temples on the island will tonight perform a ceremony in which ritual performers will walk on a fire on belief that evils would be burned away by the flame.
The provincial governor of Trang chaired in lighting the first firecracker at Kew Ong Aiew Chinese temple to invite deities of the temple to help protect the worshippers in which more than 30,000 people participated, lining the street with the distance of over 11 kilometres. Over 100 performers joined in the traditional festival, using sharpened materials and pierced into their bodies.
The 182-year-old Kew Ong Aiew temple is considered the oldest Chinese temple in Trang.
In the southern province of Songkhla bordering Malaysia, the atmosphere was second to none. A vegetarian foundation in Hat Yai District organised a parade with people carrying Chinese god and goddess statues and walked along streets in the district as worshippers offered food to the god on belief that they would be blessed.
It was reported by tourism associations in the region that the number of Malaysians participating in this year’s annual vegetarian festival is projected to increase by double from last year’s. (TNA)
The festival atmosphere in the southern resort of Phuket, known as the pearl of the Andaman, continues to be active as Thais and tourists flocked to a 108-year-old Chinese temple located in Muang District with more than 300 performers participated in the ceremony early Sunday. They later marched through streets in the provincial island as worshippers lined up the street and lighted firecrackers to welcome them.
Several Chinese temples on the island will tonight perform a ceremony in which ritual performers will walk on a fire on belief that evils would be burned away by the flame.
The provincial governor of Trang chaired in lighting the first firecracker at Kew Ong Aiew Chinese temple to invite deities of the temple to help protect the worshippers in which more than 30,000 people participated, lining the street with the distance of over 11 kilometres. Over 100 performers joined in the traditional festival, using sharpened materials and pierced into their bodies.
The 182-year-old Kew Ong Aiew temple is considered the oldest Chinese temple in Trang.
In the southern province of Songkhla bordering Malaysia, the atmosphere was second to none. A vegetarian foundation in Hat Yai District organised a parade with people carrying Chinese god and goddess statues and walked along streets in the district as worshippers offered food to the god on belief that they would be blessed.
It was reported by tourism associations in the region that the number of Malaysians participating in this year’s annual vegetarian festival is projected to increase by double from last year’s. (TNA)
