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Popular Festival and traditions
Of Thailand

One of the more important aspects of the thailand life is constituted from the festivities, that they are in kind tied to the buddhist religion, the annual cycle of the cultivation of the rice or to the commemoration of king of the past. Some fall in dates fiss, others are determined from the lunar calendar. In the last years the great afflusso tourist europro and civil and religious western North American it has made that some festivity, like the New Year's Day and the natzle, has entered in the thailand tradition and by now is known from all. It follows a directory of the festivities and more important manifestations in Thailand.

1 January : Uàn-kun-devout-mài
New Year's Day or festivity of the new year. E' a civil festivity that involves the closing of the offices publics and the banks.

January :
Fair of the umbrella to Bo Sang

Gennaio/Febbraio :
Commemorative fair of the king Naresuan to Ayutthaia; Fair of the wood to Chiang Never; Fair of the fruit and the food to Nakhon Pathom

February : Uàn-Makha-Bu-ciaa
E' the first important buddhista celebration of the year. E' a national festivity that falls in the first full moon of the third lunar month, generally to first of February, and commemorates the moment in which 1250 disciples they gathered spontaneously around to Buddha in order listening to its word

February: Gnan-dok-mài
Festival of the flowers. E' a festivity anniversary that is celebrated in February in the city of Chiang But, in the north of the country, with paraded of floreali wagons, competitions of beauty and exposures of typical flowers of the climate moderated and tropical of the province.

February : Uàn-trut-cin
Chinese and paraded New Year's Day of Drago and the Lion to Nakhon Sawan; Fair anniversary of the elephants to Lampang. The varied day to second of the lunar calendar.

February: Gnan-he-sin-to
Festival of the dancing lion. It comes celebrated from the Chinese community in the city of Nakhon Sawan five days after the Chinese New Year's Day: lions and dragoni of cartapesta parade and dance in the roads.

6 You open them: Uan-Ciakrì
Day of the Ciakrì. E' a national festivity that commemorates the foundation of the reigning dynasty. Monarch Phunipon Adulyadei, called puts into effect them also Rama IX, is the ninth monarch of the Ciakrì dynasty.

1 3 You open them : Uàn-Song-kran
Thailand New Year's Day. E' a national festivity that, second the ancient buddhista tradition, celebrates the new year. It comes celebrated with particular enthusiasm in the city of Chiang Never from the 13 to the 15 you open them; in these three days people abandon themselves to the joy, and between jokes and play all the participants spray themselves with the water.

1 May: Uàn-ciat-le-van-ren-gnan
Festivity of the workers

Uàan-put-Mon-kon:
Official ceremony of the plowing to Bangkok. This festivity nationale, falls to first of May and coincides with the beginning of the season of seeds of the rice, is presided from the King. The exact date is determined from the court Brahman that establishes the more propitious day for the beginning of seeds.

5 May: Uàn-ciàt-Mon-kon
Anniversary of the in coronation of puts into effect them sovereign, happened in 1950

Uàn Wisakha-Bu-ciaa:
Celebrated National festivity in the sixth lunar month, generally to May; it is the more sacred festivity for the buddhisti, why it celebrates the birth, the lighting system and the dead women of Buddha.

Gnan-Pra-Puttha-Bath
It is always carried out in February in the Temply of the Track of the Buddha to north of Saraburi

Gnan-dok-mài: Festival of the Flowers
E' a festivity anniversary that is never celebrated in February in the city of Chiang, in the north of the country, with paraded of flowers  wagons, competitions of beauty and exposures of typical flowers of the climate moderated and tropical of the province.

Gnan-bun-Bon-fài:
Festival of the rockets. To May, before the monsoons, the peasants of the villages of the northeast construct of the big rockets that launch towards the sky in order to ask abundant rains. E' the traditional age in order to amuse itself before beginning the hard job of the cultivation of the rice.

Uàn-Ashan-it has-Bu-ciàà:
National festivity that is celebrated in the full moon of the eighth lunar month, generally to July, and commemorates first sermon of the Buddha to its the first five disciples.

Uàn-Khào-Phan-it knows
National festivity that celebrates the day after that one of Ashan-has-Bu-ciaa. The festivity marks the beginning of Khào-Phan-knows, the three months of the season of the monsoons, during which all the monaci buddhist remain in the monasteri to study and to meditate. Khào-Phan-it knows is the traditional age for temporary the monastiche ordination; in this period the friends of the future monaco, already dressed of white man and with the rasata head, parade in processione in order to accompany it to the tempio where the ordinazione ceremony will be carried out. During the period of Phan-he knows all the festivities come interrupted because of the monsoons.

July : Gnan-he-tìan-Khào-Phan-it knows - Festival of waxes
It is celebrated with processioni and popular dances in the day of Khào-Phan-it knows in the province of Ubon Ratchathani in the northeast of the Thailand, in occasion of the Buddhist Lent

12 August : Uàan-cialom-pra-phan-it knows-som-det-pra-boròm-ra-there-niinat
Celebration of the birthday of the Queen. E' national festivity

Te-sakàn-kin-ce
Festivity Chinese vegetarian that is celebrated to Phuket, from the first one to the ninth day of the Chinese lunar month, period in which the inhabitants of the island, with magical processione and rituals they offer to theirs "Of" the products of the nature.

Settembre/Ottobre :
Processione of the illuminated boats to Nakhon Phanom.

October :
Celebrations for the end of the buddhista Lent

23 October: Uàn-devout-ià-but-it has-rat - day of the Chulalongkorn
E' a national festivity that commemorates the dead women, happened in 1910, of loved the sovereign Chulalongkorn the Great saying also Rama V. In this day the Thailandesi of every rank hangs ghirlande of flowers on the equestre statue of the King in the Real public square of Bangkok.

November: Uàn - lòi-Kratong
It is celebrated in the night of full moon of the twelfth lunar month, generally to first of November: on rivers, water channels, lagos and course are made to float of the small boats of leaves of banana tree to shape of fior of loto, containing an ignited cero, of the burning incense, a flower and a monetina, in order to honor, second the popular sideboards, the spirits of the water so that they come cancels the sins to you of the passed year.

November :
Loy Kratong (much famous that one near Wat Knows Sri di Sukhothai) with spectacular rappresentazioni of sounds and lights near the temli of the ancient ones understood them; Royal Barge, magnificent regatta on the river Chao Praya di Bangkok; Fair near the bridge on the Kwae river (10 gg.).

November: Gnan-ciàn-Surin - the return of the Elephants
E' the gathering of the elephants, than carries out to Surin in the northeast of the country the third saturday of November; it is a worthy show of interest, during the which at least two hundred elephants exhibit themselves in paraded and competitions.

5 Decembers : Uàn-cialom-Phan-it knows-som-det-ciào-iù-mùa
Ayutthaya Heritage Word to Ayutthaya; Fair of the silk to Khan Kaen; Celebrations for the birthday of the King E' national festivity.

During all the year to Bangkok, in the stages of Lumphini (tuesday, friday, saturday and Sunday) and of Ratchadamnoen (monday, tuesday and Wednesday) can be assisted to manifestations of Thai Boxing, thailandese martial art between most famous.