Phuket Vegetarian Festival by www.wildkingdomtours.com

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is an annual event held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. It is believed that the vegetarian festival and its accompanying sacred rituals bestow good fortune upon those who religiously observe this rite. During this time, local residents of Chinese ancestry strictly observe a 10-day vegetarian or vegan diet for the purposes of spiritual cleansing and merit-making. Sacred rituals are performed at various Chinese shrines and temples and aesthetic displays such as walking barefooted over hot coals and ascending ladders with bladed rungs are performed by entranced devotees known as "Ma Song".
Phuket's Vegetarian festival (or jia chai in local Hokkien Chinese dialect) began in 1825, when the govenor of Thalang, Praya Jerm, moved the island's principal town from Ta Reua in Thalang District to Get-Hoe in Kathu District, where were tin mines and Chinese miners. Kathu was then still covered by jungle and fever was rife. It happened that a traveling opera company (called ngiu in Thai or pua-hee in Hokkien dialect) came from China to perform for the miners. When the whole company grew sick from an unnamed malady, they kept to a vegetarian diet to honor two of the emperor gods, Kiew Ong Tai Teh and Yok Ong Sone Teh. The sickness afflicting the opera troupe then disappeared. This greatly interested the people of Kathu, who asked how it was done. The answer came that ritual vegetarianism with its attendant ceremonies had been the cause, with the result that people embraced the faith enthusiastically. Thus the festival began:starting the first evening of the ninth lunar month, it continued until the ninth evening; the aim was to bring good luck to individuals as well as to the community.

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[libertylagrana]

@Jewhater119 yeah, but still its their belief, i respect that

[Jewhater119]

@libertylagrana well at least hes got enough sense to not stick pointy things in his face

[libertylagrana]

@pr0gramer Your are idiot, these is their belief you idiot, you have no guts to what they can do moron

[Szarvasable]

ทำเพื่ออะไรหรอคับ = =

[somjeeeed1]

แล้วงูจะรอดมั๊ยคะน่ะ

[somjeeeed1]

เอางูทิ่มปากด้วยอ้ะ ยาวเชียว

[MsKaminokaze]

Before speaking like that you should think twice, and wonder why they do that! Animal is who doesn't use his brain to think!

[armalindo1994]

they are all ANIMALS

even the animals never gona do that !!!!!!!

[pr0gramer]

FUCK these guys!

they are 99.99% idiots , these things are not even for animals.

fuck fuck fuck you idiots;@

[LumiXpsychoklinik]

Oo famiiLjen nGooj ja Qifsha !