The most important festival in Phuket 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 the last week of September, in the first week of October.

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival organized every year to celebrate the beginning of Lent Taoist. Due to the large numberPhuket residents with Chinese roots have given, the Taoist is a great group of people celebrated in Phuket. The festival begins with the Chinese religious believers completely give up all dairy products and meat.

The festivities in Phuket, which may occur during the Vegetarian Festival in one of the five largest Chinese temples are located in Phuket. The visit of the best Chinese temple, the temple of Bang Niaw Jui Tui Chinese and ChineseTemple.

The vegetarian festival includes more than abstinence from meat and dairy products. Other parts of the festival is also offering for the monks of the temple, called the offering of gifts to the gods, the Nine Emperor awake during the festival, fireworks and cultural shows, but a few.

A number of participants in the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket to act as media between 9 gods on earth. The media are trying to reach a particular state of trance. If this conditionTrance is reached, the cheeks are pierced by numerous sharp objects like knives and spears.

Subsequently, these special vegetarian Media Festival are all in a grand procession, which were worn by many stores, the altars are placed along the road with special offers. The means of taking the fruits are offered to them by the shopkeepers and add the offer of sharp objects that will stick to her cheeks. If there is space available to provide the mediato explain 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 you were to describe the whole event in a few words, then the party could be described as a religious mania.

Wherever you are, you will see spectacularritual dance, fireworks loud, blood-stained shirt from the media, old and religious devotion paid activities.

If you ask residents of Phuket with Chinese roots to the origin of the festival will be said, a tragic story. It is said that visiting a Chinese Theater in Phuket about an hour and a half century ago.

Chinese troops were hit by a tragedy if all the members of the Chinese theater has become seriously ill. It is said thatsick, because they had to offer compared to the nine emperor gods of Taoism. The only way in which China was able to heal themselves members of an ensemble, has been awarded a 9 days, containing only vegetarian, much thought and the actions themselves piercing.