#Recommend Thailand by real Thai people #แนะนำประเทศไทยโดยคนไทยแท้ๆ
It is a Thai festival held on about the 15th day of the waxing moon of the twelfth month according to the lunar calendar. Compared to the international calendar, it corresponds to the time of mid-November every year.
Everyone can easily join the Loi Krathong tradition, just have a krathong to light incense and make a wish. ask for forgiveness from Phra Mae Ganga Let the bad things go away with the stream of good things that are Sirimontal. Then float down the Krathong into the river. It’s done. Go for a walk and see the activities. able to buy food
For Thai people like me, I think that the place can be regarded as having a big Loi Krathong event. It must consist of at least 3 of the first 4 things:
Mid november Almost every area in Thailand holds a Loi Krathong festival. They look similar to each other if you look at them with the eyes of a real Thai like me.
But if looking for the strange and different Must go to join the Lantern Festival of Chiang Mai people called the Yi Peng Festival. It is to float a lantern up in the sky to pay homage to the tooth of the Buddha in the pagoda in the heavenly Daowaeng.
The time when lanterns floated into the sky All flights over Chiang Mai airspace will be cancelled. Absolutely not to fly through the airspace of Chiang Mai. for safety reasons of the aircraft itself Therefore, coming to Chiang Mai to participate in this Yi Peng Festival must travel several days in advance. Or choose to travel to Chiang Mai by train, sleeping cars are convenient and fun. Depart from Bangkok in the evening. In the morning of the next day, we will reach Chiang Mai.
Chiang Mai has a very different cultural tradition compared to Bangkok. I include that it is different from the central region and other regions in a distinctive and unique way.
Once in the past, King Rama V of Siam had mentioned The city of Chiang Mai, which is the center of the northern districts. with the name of the former kingdom “Lanna”
1. To apologize to the goddess of water, Phra Mae Ganga, because throughout the year we use water for consumption and consumption throughout the year. Loy Krathong Festival So take this as an opportunity to ask for forgiveness once a year.
Illustration : Buddha’s Footprint, Saraburi Province
ภาพประกอบ : รอยพระพุทธบาท จังหวัด สระบุรี
At one time, a Bodhisattva named Siddatta, who was in the process of asceticism to attain enlightenment in the future to become a Buddha. as a young priest made a fortune by floating the alms bowl into the Neranjara River, predicting that if in this life in the future one can attain dharma as a Buddha May this alms bowl float upstream as well. As a result, the alms bowl actually floats upstream and sinks to the river floor, touching the tail of a serpent.
Naga then realized that the next great man would become a Buddha. and asked him to float his feet on the bank of the river for further worship when he comes out of the water Bodhisattva stamped his footprint as requested.
All these events were witnessed by Mrs. Suchada on the full moon day of the twelfth lunar month. Mrs. Suchada then brought flower baskets filled with incense to float the river to worship. Buddha’s footprint and worship the serpent at the same time
3. Worship the Naga, the god of water for Buddhists It looks like a large snake with a crest as in verse 2 that can transform into a human when needed. Naga is a half-serpent, half-human deity living in the underworld. It was considered a type of deity that was very close to the human realm. believe that you may be punished may bring good luck money for human beings regarded as the beliefs of the individual