Phuket Vegetarian Festival, Thailand 2020 ~ Event Celebration Updates

Phuket Vegetarian Festival, Thailand 2020.

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Phuket Announces the biggest Vegetarian Festival 2020 ever:

Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2020 will start on Saturday, 17 October, and finished on Sunday, 25 October. Phuket announces this October Vegetarian Festival is bigger than every year.

Expected spread of 200 million. 28 Sep. 2020 - Mrs. Naphasornkamai, Director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Phuket Office revealed that TAT Phuket Office Well supported and cooperated.

From all relevant network partners doing sales promotion, encouraging more Thai people to travel to Phuket for tourism promotion activities in October 2020. There will be a big Phuket Merit Festival with Phuket Yom Kippur Festival or Vegetarian Festival between 17-25 October 2020.

TAT Phuket Office Together with the airline Phuket Tourism Business Association Phuket Chamber of Commerce With support from Phuket Province Arrange a special price package, inviting Thai people from Bangkok.

Come and join in this festival Riding in a car, Pho Thong, worshiping 9 monks, praying for health, success, work, education for the prosperity of life.

And have an idea to invite famous people Maybe a merit star Or important people in government invited to participate in the Phuket Yom Kippur Festival. In addition, to enter the atmosphere of the Phuket Yom Kippur Festival, Phuket TAT, in collaboration with shrines and relevant agencies in the area.

To decorate the city to welcome the festival of Yom Kippur, eat vegetables in Phuket with flags from the entrance to the city Tha Chatchai Toll Plaza Passing by Thepkasattri Road.

It is the main road connecting to Phuket Road, ending at the shrine at Plai Laem Saphan Hin, Phuket.

"This year's event will be even bigger. For this October Expected to have at least 100,000 Thais come to travel, including the vegetarian festival and long holidays. Expect the spread of not less than 200 million baht,” said Mrs. Naphasorn.

In the past, TAT Phuket cooperated with all network partners to organize promotional activities that have been well-received such as the Phuket Great Time.com project, Phuket Great Time .com, an online travel product offering channel.

Sources of Phuket tourism promotion starting from June 15, 2020, to September 25, 2020, there have been more than 37,000 sales already due to bookings for hotels, rental cars, tour companies, scuba diving spas, with tourists coming in until the end of this year.

Drive-Thru Phuket Project with 1,000 Baht Coupon to Encourage Family Travel Driving from the South come to Phuket. It started about 2 months ago and more than 2,000 people were traveling in it, the feedback was quite good.

Seafood Fair Project or Rim Lay organized by Phuket Province Phuket Provincial Commercial Office And related network parties start at Saphan Hin beach. And continued on the beaches of Phuket Spread more than 100 million baht including government projects.

As a result, more and more people come to Phuket with the project we travel together and the project to share happiness with volunteers in the south. More than 19,000 people have entered Phuket through various projects.

More Thai people are coming in. Causing a pipe to breathe Thanks to the government and all sectors supporting the tourism promotion in Phuket.

History of Phuket Vegetable Tradition:

Traditionally, eating vegetables (Chia Cha), which the villagers and the Chinese in Phuket called “Chia Cha”, was a Taoist tradition that worshiped the gods, gods, and heroes.

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Especially for Hokkien people, the word "chia cha" (eating vegetables) is a local language. The ceremonial day falls on the first lunar day to nine lunar days (nine coy Chui eid to ninth) according to the Chinese calendar every year.

Chia Chai tradition It started for the first time at Laai Tu Village (Nai Thoo), which is Kathu Village, Kathu District, Phuket Province. Those Chinese people have immigrated to mining since the Ayutthaya period.

(During the reign of King Narai the Great) with tin ore trading with Portugal, France, England, etc. Those Chinese people have poured in most before the year. 2325 BC After Phuket and Thalang were invaded by Burma in 1809, citizens were scattered in various places.

When Phraya Thalang (Anointed) was appointed as the governor of Thalang. And set up Phuket town at Ban Ket Ho, let Phuket monk (Kaew) become a ruler (between 1825-2400) The area around in Thu (Kathu) is rich in tin ore. As a result, Chinese people poured into a lot of tin mining.

Most of them are Chinese people who immigrated from the original Thalang city that was scattered everywhere. And immigrants from Hokkien, Shantou, and Amoy provinces Which are in the south of China By relying on sailboats through Cape Malayu, etc.

The village in Thu at that time was still dense forest with jungle fever and various dangers. From many wild animals But the number of people and the Chinese in the village of Tu has increased rapidly Due to the abundance of tin ore it is famous all over the world.

Chinese people who lived in that time Have faith and belief in the family deities or guarding gods of the village, such as the various gods, heavens, and gods, including their own ancestors.

When there is an excess of disaster Inviting each god he worshiped to protect himself. Or associates who have made a living in the area where they live The evening was generally blessed, and this belief continues until today.

Later, there was an opera troupe or Piyee who traveled from China to perform at home in Tu This opera can be performed all year round. Due to the economy of people in the Chinese instrument including shops He had a very good income at that time.

Later it appeared that there were 26 underground buildings and 112 shops, so they could subsidize this opera all year round After the opera troupe opened to perform at home In two for a while Has caused illness and fever.

And from this illness, the opera troupe realized that they did not perform the Chia cha (eating vegetables) ceremony, which was practiced every year in China.

And appeared since the reign of King Ung Tu Emperor Therefore consulted among the group And agreed to perform the chia cha ceremony at the opera house This is because you cannot get into a sailboat.

Or the junk boat traveled back to join the Chia Cha ceremony in China in time because the day of the ceremony was almost approaching. Therefore decided to perform the Yia cha ceremony at the opera house to ask for forgiveness for a reason

Later, the disease was completely gone. Including disease that used to squeeze the people in Tu Is reduced as well This was a surprise to many residents of Tu. Therefore asked from the opera troupe and answered that they had performed the ceremony Yeah,

in short, Because there are no knowledgeable people and experts in organizing the Yia cha ceremony, merely worshiping and praying for forgiveness. Do you remember Gyu Ong Ye? Cuong Tai Te or the nine kings himself

The opera troupe also advised the Chinese in Tu further that Inviting the gods to worship to protect themselves, their families, and the local communities for the well-being that has been practiced before It's a good thing, but if it's going to be even better, it should be yak cha Yom.

The yeast does not have to be practiced for all nine days. How many days can you wear it, depending on the faith and fit of each family Most of the people of Thu and the Chinese were believed and believed to have followed the advice of the Ngo Clan By having performed the Yia Cha ceremony in the following year Phuket Town's Chia Chai tradition took place for the first time in Thu (Kathu), it was later spread out in various places.

After the Chinese people in Tu can perform the chia cha ritual for about 2-3 years. Has diminished and eventually disappeared. This makes the Chinese people who come to live in mining in the forest to have more faith and faith.

Before the opera troupe moved to perform elsewhere The opera group gave the image of Kim Sin (Idol), Lao Ye (Tian Hu Nguan Soi), Sam Ong Hu Ong Yi, Sam Tai Chu and gave advice to the Chinese on how to perform the ritual in brief.

At that time, too, during the period when the Chinese were performing the Chia cha (eating vegetables) ceremony. One of the unidentified people who lived in Kang-Sae Province (Kang-sai is the Jiangxi of China today) traveled to work in Tu Saw how the Chinese Chia Cha rituals were performed is not inaccurate in the style of Chaitung (Shrine in the province of Kang Sai)

Therefore informed the Chinese in Tu know that they are willing to volunteer to travel back to Kangsai Province of China To go (Summon fire incense) and elements for the ceremony.

But unable to travel due to loss of property The Chinese in Tu, therefore, joined together to collect funds for this person who knows this For the cost of traveling to Kangsai Province

A few years later, during which the Chinese in Tu performed a brief chia chai ceremony until the seventh lunar day (Nao Ngoi Cui Injection) according to the Chinese calendar at night, a sailboat from China arrived.

To the head of Pang Liao (Some sticky nowadays) whoever knows Traveled back with this sailboat as well and sent people to inform the Chinese in Tu know that Now that he had returned from China to Hua Tha Bang Liao with Shia Yao Yan (incense powder), asked the committee and the people who attended the Jing Chai ceremony to welcome Hua Bang Liao on the day. Nine Ngo Shui Anise was the next day.

Dao Hao or Nao Yan brought from Gang Sai Province It was placed in the goddamn (incense burner) by burning the incense stick throughout the distance, not to be extinguished.

In addition, it has brought you (prayer, scriptures, texts Along with the name tag, Tao Bo Keng A sign on the face of Aam Cha Tong)

Currently, the Phuket Chia Cha (eat vegetables) tradition has been passed down every year. Hundreds of years ago, it was a very good tradition for the people of Phuket.

Source: Chaiyut Pinpradob, the tradition of eating vegetables (Chia Cha), Phuket Province

Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Yom Kippur, eat vegetables) Get to know many rituals:

Phuket Vegetarian Festival Or in the name of the Yom Kippur Festival Very famous In terms of it is a tradition, that has been passed down for a long time. The Yom Kippur Festival in Phuket is held only once a year.

For those who have never had a chance to see the horse-stable parade called that you have to come for it.

History of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Yom Kippur Festival), the Chinese living in Phuket call the vegetarian festival "Chia-Cha" from Taoism. Worshiping gods including heroes which Phuket Vegetarian Festival there will be a total of 9 days, which will be held every year {in 2018 from October 9, 2018 - October 17, 2018}.

The purpose of the vegetarian festival is to wash away sins Emphasize the practice of Dharma to bring purity to both body, speech, and mind, as well as making merit for the ancestors who have passed away.

Including the observance of the five precepts for the entire nine days, in which 9 days will have traditions and rituals related to various beliefs in order by day as follows:

• Sao Goteng Calling Ceremony To summon the Lord Hong Song De And Ong Kiew Ong Tai Presided over the ceremony held on the first day of the Vegetarian Festival. It is a sign of the start of the Phuket Yom Kippur Festival.

• Knife ladder-climbing ceremony (To Tui Ceremony) At the top of the stairs is a flag with a horse riding a very steep ladder, which each step. It Will be made from a very sharp knife not only that when you can climb up, but you must also climb down as well.

• Fire wading ceremony (Ko Yoi) is for horses to wade through fire. To purify the body Demonstrated the ability to regulate heat from the fire.

• Monk parade ceremony around town (Eua Keng) is a ceremony in which horses circulate in a parade around Phuket town. With the use of a knife, his sword pierced his body.

• Bridge Crossing Ceremony (Go Go Goong) is a ceremony to be held on the last day of the Phuket Yom Kippur Festival by crossing the bridge with dolls. For writing the name Date Of Birth under the bridge there are oil lamps. It is a trick that has removed the bad from the participants of the ceremony.

The highlight of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a monk parade ceremony around the city (Yinggeng ceremony) for the tourists. And the local people were looking forward to it and also the highlight of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival is the Monk Parade ceremony around the city (Eua Keng ceremony) with a horse or a royal person attending the parade.

Which shows a powerful ability to withstand pain. In which each method whether it is the use of a knife and sword to pierce the body. Also, there was a sound of firecrackers surrounding the procession.

By displaying the power to withstand the pain to show; that it was receiving the pain from those who attended the ceremony And other human beings.

-Rituals during the Yom Kippur Festival in Phuket:

-The Goteng Pole Lifting Ceremony:

One ritual signaled that the Yom Kippur Festival has begun. Ceremony of the summoning ceremony King Hong Song Teh or Shiva and Ong Ong Tai Te or the nine kings Presided over the ceremony by bringing the lanterns to worship the 9 deities up to the top of the 36-segment bamboo pole, which the Goteng Saturn ceremony will be held on the first day of the Vegetarian Festival.

-Knife ladder-climbing ceremony (Big Tui Ceremony):

It was a ceremony to show the power of the horse horses who had to endure pain with the sharp blades. Brought to be placed in several steps at the top of the staircase, there will be a flag placed as the finish line and a stop for the monk.

Because the stairs of each shrine are quite high before you have to climb down the other side of the ladder, which is also made of blades. Fire Wading Ceremony (Ko Yoi) another ceremony that asks you not to copy Fire Wading Ritual is a sacred ritual performed to purify the body from all bad things and impurities.

With the horse monk represented and it also shows the power to control the heat from the fire. Each shrine sets its own day of the ceremony. Which will always receive attention from both Thais and foreigners.

-Monk parade ceremony around town (Yinggeng ceremony):

The monk's parade ceremony around town or Yiw Keng, another color that is considered a highlight of the Yom Kippur festival. Like going on a trip to visit the people of the king.

It can be seen from the procession that includes the flag procession, small palatial or Tai Bei, the Chinese chattel procession (chisel- chisel) followed by the large palatine or Tu Nguyen respectively.

Stabbed the weapon of a horse that had to endure pain. To exorcise the bad luck for the participants of the vegetable eating ceremony. Which all the way through the procession is full of firecrackers and the altar table that the villagers worshiped on both sides of the road.

-Bridge Crossing Ceremony (Koei Han):

This ceremony will be held on the last day of the Vegetable Festival It is a ceremony performed to dispel bad or bad things from the body.

Each time crosses the bridge, there will be a counter-attack Or a different doll with the name of the date of birth An oil lamp lit To dispel the evil within the ceremony

Eat vegetables in Phuket, year 63, accept the New Normal way, refrain from performing miracles:

Phuket News Center - Eat Vegetables Phuket Year 63 between 17-25 this October accepts the New Normal way, no miraculous rituals. To prevent the spread of COVID-19

Chalermphong Sukontaphon, MD, Director of Wachira Hospital Phuket As the chairman of the Phuket Communicable Disease Committee Meeting No. 44/2020 disclosed after the Phuket Communicable Disease Control Committee meeting that from the joint meeting between the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office with various shrine committees In Phuket About the guidelines for organizing the Phuket Yom Kippur Festival in Phuket for the year 2020 between 17-25 October 2020 has been concluded that in the preliminary All shrines in Phuket are ready to hold a New Normal way of life, or New Normal, as the main measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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By wearing masks of the participants. Set up a screening point to measure fever at the entrance to the shrine Social distance With an emphasis on simplicity But still maintaining important traditions There will be no miracles.

The parade will use cars instead. There is a limit to the number of stable horses, each of which can hold only one person in every ritual.

In this regard, the establishment of a shrine kitchen In which vegetarian food will be arranged for those who eat in the shrine and take it home On this issue, there will be another meeting to discuss and conclude that In what form will it be performed next week?

Before being presented to the Committee on Communicable Diseases And make a report to be presented to the Commission for further

10 things you didn't know about Phuket vegetarian Horses and Yom Kippur eat vegetables:

Ending the Vegetarian Festival with little knowledge of the Phuket Yom Kippur Festival, which is considered a great national festival that you should visit. And absorb the atmosphere of faith power once in a lifetime

Today, Thairath online Will invite you to know that, Why does this festival have a horse? Why do I have to torture my body? Legend of eating vegetables, Including a parade of the Emperor and setting off firecrackers like crazy day and night.

1) Are you okay?

The tradition of eating vegetables The villagers call it Chia Cha, referring to the celebration of the Nine Kings' clothes. It is a very big tradition of Phuket.

Currently, not only Thai people know But people of Chinese descent around the world also know this tradition. This tradition is held during the ninth month of one evening. Until the nine and nine lunar months according to the Chinese calendar

2) Province Kang Sai,

the original Yom Kippur to eat vegetables The tradition of eating vegetables in Phuket First started in Kathu District from 1825 onwards by summoning incense sticks, scriptures, prayers, and all equipment from the city of Kang Sai (Guang Sai), People's Republic of China. To perform the ritual properly

3) Are you Sheng today?

Phuket residents or Baba (Mixed Chinese, overseas and native) have inherited the longstanding tradition of Jia Cha from generation to generation.

To purify the body and mind Or what the Chinese call 'Cheng', especially those who will come as a horse in various ceremonies The precepts must be kept strictly. That is

4) Plague Myth

In the past, overseas Chinese migrated to Kathu, Phuket Province to work as a mining center for coal. Later, I found a cholera epidemic in Kathu. Many Chinese people died.

The rest realized that they had to do something. To solve this disaster So I remembered the tradition of eating vegetables in China that had been done The Chinese immigrants went to summon the gods by using symbols as a pot, incense burner.

Come from the province of Kang-Sai Take a junk boat to Saphan Hin Pier. Then paraded to land to stay at the Kathu shrine And began to eat vegetables Therefore, the descendants of Chinese people have continued this tradition

5) Strong community Stable and stable

Phuket residents believe that this tradition will help ward off catastrophes, enhance fortunes, like doing good things for themselves. People are popular to make successful wishes from sacred things.

Prosperous life And longevity (called Feng Xiu) as well as if viewed in a social context The ceremony also builds community solidarity through the belief in gods.

6) Why do you have to pay respect to Ma Song?

Phuket's Vegetable Festival with a 'Phra' Parade, Aam, or shrines in each shrine. Will set up a parade, pot, incense burner, and the Emperor, Emperor to live in his Aum In the procession of monks, there are 'horses' dressed as gods such as Guanyin Goddess Naja, Guan Yu warhorse.

(The deity will sit on the shoulder of a horse Not possessed in the body) pierced the body with a spike To show the power of the gods People will come to the table to receive the monk or receive the deity at their own home When the horse comes to the table, he will pay homage to the horse to help ward off bad things. And wish that the trade prospered

7) Set off firecrackers all day and night.

This is Phuket! During the festival for 9 days and 9 nights, the people of Phuket always set off firecrackers. To exorcise bad luck But nowadays more firecrackers are set up as if it were a celebration of the festival itself Especially in the morning with a monk parade ceremony Will be more points together like a small war By setting a small set of firecrackers on the ground before the parade passes in front of the house (Some people put the horse on the horse) believed to be an exorcism and good luck

8) Wanted to pass, must sit down!

After nearly a thousand horses marched The final part of the parade Will be a procession of the Emperor, Emperor That the townspeople summoned into the palanquin There will be a three-tiered gold tiered flag when this procession passes in front of the house.

All people must sit down and not stand because the Emperor, Emperor is the king of all gods. The highest respect is required.

9) Wade through fire

to exorcise bad luck Pitchfork ceremony or fire wading ceremony is Held regularly during the Phuket City Yom Kippur Festival. It is a ritual to purify bad energies from the body.

A horse that will come through the fire must be strong. That is, strictly holding the Yom Kippur until it is pure and bright before joining the ceremony Believe that the deity who sits Will come to wade through the fire to exorcise all the Buddhists

10) Climb the only knife ladder in the world!

Another rare ceremony It is said that right now, there is only one place in the world left: the Knife Ladder Ceremony. Or the odd to tui ceremony It is a ritual in which a horse must climb 72 steps of the knife ladder to suffer misfortune for the villagers And to wish the villagers attending the festival happy Plus!

Up to 80% of Phuket people are of Thai Hokkien descent. And from the fame of the Yom Kippur Festival, Phuket Province, making it known in neighboring countries Chinese people from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, come to Phuket almost every year.

Because believe that if you have come to attend this ceremony in Thailand When I returned to business, I felt that the business was prosperous, and it was no surprise that the power of faith would spread this far.

Phuket Vegetarian Festival, Thailand 2020