Chinese New Year in Thailand 2011

 

Chinese New Year celebration in 2011 in Thailand

In Thailand, the Chinese New Year, also known as "Chin trut ancestor worship festival marks and praise. This is the time for a reunion with the family. The Celebration of Chinese New Year in Thailand, 2011, which is celebrated on February 3, Thursday.

Chinese New Year is celebrated mainly in central Nakhon Sawan province and in Bangkok's China Town. Performance of lion dance is an important part of the festival, as it considers performance exorcise evil spirits. Burning paper and incense sticks that offer food to ancestors, street opera is the most common customs of Chinese New Year celebrations in Thailand.

Visitors flock to Nakhom Sawan region to participate in the festivities. Food stalls line both sides of the street. In addition, banquets displayed in the streets that are designed to meet the Chinese ancestral souls. Some parts of Thailand, where the Chinese New Year is celebrated with great pomp, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Songkhla and Chon Buri. The atmosphere in Thailand is transformed into another world with the drums with cymbals and gongs creatures Thurs Fireworks are also an important part of this festival, which echoed from all parts of Thailand.

 

Also known as Spring Festival and Lunar New Year, the Chinese community in Thailand continue preparing for a week to celebrate this great festival. Organization dragon dances and colorful processions are carried out by the Chinese community living in Thailand. Red flags are usually installed at the main entrance of the houses and shops. The interior rooms are decorated with vases of flowers, mandarin oranges and nuts.

In preparation for the celebration, Chinese people buy food at the market two days before the start of the new year. And for the last day before the New Year is a day for  prayers and offerings to the gods and ancestors. The Chinese have three types of prayers that includes the morning prayers to the gods of the earth, the noon prayer with the ancestors and evening prayers for those who have no parents. Burning of paper gold is made by the Chinese, after each sentence of the prayer.

 

New Year's Day

The first day of the new year is also marked with prayers and normally done in the morning for the blessing good luck. The biggest party of three days of New Year, people to meet their relatives. One of the most common changes is the duty of the oranges and giving away "Ang Pow" for younger children.