Vegetarian Festival Essay

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Thai vegetarian festival is celebrated on the ninth lunar month of Chinese calendar in every year. At the beginning, in Thailand, this holiday was not shown in history. It has been passed from old Thai-Chinese Buddhists to new generations, and started in the Southern Thailand. Initially, Thai-Chinese people were the first group to create vegetarian food in order to make virtue and save some animal life that was killed for food. Later, the vegetarian food became famous and known in Thai society. Currently, many Thai people realized that vegetarian food is helping them to have the healthy life. Therefore, they created Thai vegetarian festival, called “Tad-Sa-Karn-Kin-Jay”, that begins in late September and lasts nine days. Before the holiday begins in late September, many religious Buddhists from different parts of Thailand clean their houses and stop killing the animals. They avoid eating any meat about one or two days before joining that festival. Furthermore, some supermarkets stock a lot of vegetables and ingredients to sell during these holidays, and some restaurants temporarily change the recipe to cook with vegetables or imitated meats. During the celebration, all participants eat only vegetarian food, wear white clothes and discipline themselves with ten basic holy rules such as; do not drink alcohol, do not have sex, do not tell lies or kills, etc in order to claim their minds and refresh their bodies. They also go to Chinese temples to pray to Buddha and donate money or dry foods to maintain and help those temples, and they believe that it will bring the luck to them and their families. The day fifth of celebration, is the highlight time of Thai vegetarian festival. All Chinese temples present the spectacular parades that are accompanied by lion dances and some participants to show the incredible actions. These participants believe that they are the sons of
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