Thailand --- Loy Kra Thong

In November 5th, we went to Thailand on vacation, just in time Loy Kra Thong in Thailand. In Thailand's traditional festivals, the most beautiful should be "Loy Kra Thong”.

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Loy Kra Thong, it is Thailand's most interesting folk, and more with the myth of the festival, held every night of the Thailand calendar December 15 evening (Gregorian calendar in November). During this period, after which the rainy, and river is the rising, clear bright moon season in Thailand. According to Thailand tradition, Thai Loy Kra Thong day will be handmade lamp into the river water in order to express their good wishes and blessings.

 

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In this traditional festival, the day walking in the streets of Koh Chang, you can easily find industrious Thailand women, in their own house, or in front of the shop, concentrate, hand fabrication beautiful Kra Thong.

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Kra Thong material, which is based mainly banana trunks and banana leaves. Women with skilled technique, put a knife cut each into a round lump of banana tree trunks, each about three inches thick. This is the bottom of the water round tubers lights, water lights can float, and the air is filled with a loose structure entirely within the circle tuber.

 

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The next part is the lamp body, women are naturally skilled, they put a fresh banana leaf, or turn or roll or cut or cut, and small branches banana circle around the block to be fixed. Various styles of Kra Thong, a very short time to do it.

Kra Thong seems simple, it contains hard ancestors, ancestral feelings, there was in the hands of the faint fragrance of banana leaves, looking through the books cannot be realized.

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As night comes, the most beautiful time of Loy Krathong start, you can see men and women, or children accompanied by their parents, who hand holding a wide range of water modeling lamp, or pyramid, lotus-shaped boat and so on, especially in the lotus shape the most beautiful Krathong. Intermediate water lights, inserted candles, flowers and colored small paper flags to represent Buddha, but also put a few coins in the water lights, indicating Busch. Before water lanterns, lit candles after everyone, close your eyes, murmured speech, or a year in family prayers and peace, happiness, or pray for children's academic progress.

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Loy Kra Thong in Thailand, it has been a very romantic holiday. On this day, you can see many couples from all over the world. They came to the river holding hands. In the clear moonlight night, carrying down both sides of love boat, began to happy future and sincere prayer.

  

[Tips]

1, the annual Loy Kra Thong Thai date, it is not the same. Before going, we must first figure out the time. 2014 Water Festival is November 7th.

2, the "yee pang san sai" by the organizers of each event decision. Every year "yee pang san sai" are not the same date, approximately calendar November period, but the date is not fixed. Generally will be announced in September.

So to see the spectacular landscape, you will need to have a little patience, you cannot determine in advance, but each person participated will feel worth it, it should be part of the moment in the life of the memory.

3. "yee pang san sai", which took part in free games and pay field. Examples in the past year, the two separated by a week. Does not limit the number of free games, it will be livelier, and the scene is quite spectacular. We did not participate in charge field, but I think because it controls the number of people, it's lively and free field cannot be compared. Tickets charge field is more expensive, $ 100 USD a person, this price will only visitors to Pai will participate. So if you want to play with Thailand people and the yee pang san sai, try to free games.

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10 days of vacation is over, we take the bus to leave Koh Chang. Bus speeding on the highway, looked out the window from the bus, and began to see skyscrapers, air track, huge billboards, fancy sports car, and the tumult of the crowd. I know that will be arriving this messy fusion city. This is not the traditional sense of urban planning: Bangkok.

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When arriving in Bangkok city, the first impression I left. Hot weather, roadside garbage, continuous noise, traffic congestion on the road forever, have prompted me back to the breath of city life.