When do they celebrate New Year in Thailand? The
Answered by information department of "Subtlety of Tourism"
Celebrate the New Year in Thailand love no less than ours and therefore do it three times .Only instead of the "Old New Year" they celebrate the New Year on the Chinese lunar calendar and their own, national .The third New Year, more precisely, the first in chronology - the European version, a tribute to globalization .It is celebrated traditionally, on the night of December 31 to January 1, true, without a Christmas tree .Then comes Chinese New Year .It is celebrated on the first new moon after the winter solstice .It falls on the day of the month from January 21 to February 21 .China celebrates the holiday for about 2 weeks, the Thais celebrate less and more modestly, apparently, save forces for the country's main New Year .So, number three, the main holiday of the change of years - Van Songkran .Once a suitable date was calculated by astrologers in the stars, and now it is celebrated on April 13, before the onset of a warm season, such a local summer .In this holiday all the residents of the country are having fun, according to an old tradition they are smeared with white clay, pour each other and tourists with water and tie the first ritual threaded bracelets on their hands .The
July 13, 2011
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