5 ARIYA JIANG - 6 months ago
Vegetarian Festival Lived with the people of Phuket for a long time. more than a hundred years Vegetarian diet started from The opera troupe is from China. to show at Kathu District and having a vegetarian ceremony there for the first time Due to the outbreak of epidemics, a lot of people died and got sick. but it is strange None of the people in the opera troupe were sick. after an inquiry The opera troupe worshiped Chinese gods and ate vegetarian food, abstained from meat, and performed fasting for nine days and nine nights. and a miraculous event occurred that made the villagers in that area recover from the plague. And it was asked that the opera troupe to convey the complete vegetarian ritual. Money was then raised for the opera troupe to travel back to China to bring the ritual and vegetarianism back to Phuket. Three months later, after the villagers had waited in despair, a junk boat arrived at the sa-phan -hin bridge. and someone from the opera came back with Statues of gods and incense burners have been brought to Kathu District, where vegetarian events will be held on the calendar on the first day of the ninth lunar month of every year, and the tradition of vegetarianism in Phuket is well known to foreign countries. Every year, Thai and foreign tourists come together to dress in white. to participate in the vegetarian festival It is another important highlight of Phuket Province.
