The most important Phuket festival takes place each year must certainly be the Vegetarian Festival. The Vegetarian Festival in Phuket is during the first 9 days of the 9th Lunar month of the traditional Chinese calendar.
The Vegetarian Festival is usually in the last week of September in the first week of October.
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival organized every year to celebrate the beginning of the Taoist lent. Due to the large numberResidents of Phuket with Chinese roots gave, the Taoist is a large group of the population of Phuket celebrated. The festival starts from the Chinese religious believers completely renouncing all dairy and meat products.
The festivities in Phuket that can take place during the Vegetarian Festival in one of the five largest Chinese temples are found in Phuket. Visit The best Chinese temple, the Bang Niaw Chinese temple and the Jui Tui ChineseTemple.
The vegetarian festival includes more than just abstinence from meat and dairy products. Other parts of the festival is also offering to the temple monks, called the offering of gifts to the gods, the Nine Emperor awake during the festival, fireworks and cultural performances, but a few.
A number of participants to the vegetarian festival in Phuket to act as media between the 9 gods on earth. The media are trying to reach a particular state of trance. If this conditionTrance is achieved, the cheeks are pierced by numerous sharp objects such as knives and spears.
Thereafter, these special Vegetarian Festival media are all in a grand procession, which they carried by many stores, the altars are places along the road with special offers. The media take the fruits are offered to them by the shopkeepers and they add an offer to the sharp objects which will stick to her cheeks. If there is no space available to give the mediato account for the offer.
It is a sign of good luck and a blessing when we received a gift from one to the media during the festival procession.
The atmosphere of the Vegetarian Festival is certainly unique, and should require each traveler will learn to stay on the island during the event. If one were to describe the entire event in a few words, then the festival could be described as a religious madness.
Wherever you are, you will see spectacularritual dance, loud fireworks, blood-stained shirt from the media, and old religious devotion paid activities.
If you ask the Phuket residents with Chinese roots to the origin of the festival they will say, a tragic story. They say that visiting a Chinese theater Phuket approximately one and a half-century ago.
The Chinese troops were hit by a tragedy if all the members of the Chinese theater has become seriously ill. It is said that theysick because they had failed to offer respects to the nine emperor gods of Taoism. The only way in which China was able to heal the ensemble members themselves, was awarded with a 9-day, containing only vegetarian meals, long meditations and actions themselves piercing.
