1. Songkran Festival
Songkran Festival, also known as Songkran Water Festival, is a traditional festival in Thailand, Laos, the Dai ethnic minority area in China and Cambodia. The festival lasts three days and is held from April 13 to 15 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The main activities of the festival include fasting monks and performing good deeds, bathing and purification, people pouring water on each other to bless, worshipping elders, releasing animals and singing and dancing games.
2, Rocket Festival
Rocket Festival is a customary ritual of Thai folk praying for rain, according to the custom, usually held in mid-May each year when the rainy season comes, usually lasts two days. At this time of the year, local farmers will take the village as a unit and make rockets out of simple materials such as plastic tubes, bamboo or wood for rocket launching competitions, as a way to pray for rain from the sky, so that they can get a good harvest of crops and live a happy life.
3, Shouxia Festival
Shouxia Festival, also known as Shouju Festival, into the summer festival, into the rain festival, etc., is Thailand's most important traditional Buddhist festival, held annually on the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the Thai calendar. The festival is called "Khao Phansa" in Thai. The word comes from the Vaipan language, "khao" means "to enter" and "phansa" means "rainy season", "rainy season", "rainy period". The summer festival originated from the ancient Indian monks and nuns in the rainy season, the custom of confinement.
4, Elephant Festival
Thailand is the world's largest producer of elephants, known as the "elephant country". Every year on the third weekend of November, a grand Elephant Festival is held in the city of Surin, which has the largest number of elephants. The annual Elephant Festival is a traditional religious festival in the Surin province of Thailand, and its main performers are elephants.
The elephants are rinsed clean by their owners on their own day, and then rushed to the city of Suphan to take part in the annual "Elephant Games". The sports include tug-of-war, weight lifting, ball kicking and obstacle course running. The elephants perform with a cute, yet meticulous demeanor that draws laughs and applause from the audience.
5, Water Lantern Festival
In Thailand's traditional festivals, every year in November to hold the "Water Lantern Festival", which is a full embodiment of the Thai young men and women charming love festival. Because every Lantern Festival night, whether it is the city or in the townships, as long as it is close to the river port or lakeside places, the water will be full of water lanterns, shining a candlelight, reflecting the young men and women double happy beautiful shadow, and a piece of the fragrance of the flowers and the light and melodious "put the lanterns," the song, constituting a joyful Lantern Festival night.
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