The major festivals this year, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival each year. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival during the first 9 days of the 9th lunar month of Chinese calendar.

The Vegetarian festival normally falls in the last week of September, the first week of October.

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

The festivities in Phuket Vegetarian Festival held during the Phuket is one of five major Chinese temples. Visiting the best Chinese temple, the temple of Bang Niaw Jui Tui Chinese and ChineseTemple.

The vegetarian festival includes more than just abstinence from meat and dairy products. Other parts of the festival includes temple offerings, the monks, with the gifts to the nine gods, the growing demand for Kaiser during the festival, fireworks and cultural shows, but a few.

A number of participants, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival to serve as a bridge between the 9th gods on earth. These media are trying to reach a particular state of trance. Once this conditionTrance is reached, the cheeks are pierced by numerous sharp objects such as spears and knives.

Thereafter, the vegetarian festival special media to echo a big parade that takes them to many shops, such as altars were places along the way with special offers. These media reap the rewards that are offered by their store owners, and they attach to the tender for sharp objects that are stuck in their cheeks. If there is space available for the mediathe provision of bystanders.

Should be a sign of luck and a blessing when you receive a gift from one of the media during the procession of the festival.

The atmosphere of the vegetarian festival is certainly unique, and should require each traveler's stay on the island during the event live. If you were to describe the whole event in a few words, then the party could be described as a religious frenzy.

Wherever you look, you will find spectacularritual dance, fireworks, loud, blood-stained shirt worn by the media and activities ancient religious worship.

If you ask, Festival Phuket residents with Chinese roots to tell you the origin of a tragic story. It is said that a Chinese theater troupe visited Phuket and about half a century old.

Chinese troops were hit by tragedy when turned all the members of the Chinese opera is seriously ill. The story goes that theyupside down, because they had to offer compared to the nine emperor gods of Taoism. The only way the Chinese were able to force members to heal was borrowed with a 9 days, only vegetarian food, long meditations and actions themselves Piercing included.