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Khom Loy Yi Peng, Festival 2009 Chiang Mai,Yi Peng thailand

Yi Peng Festival: This is another annual traditional festival to celebrate full moon in Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand. Yi Peng is the term referred by northern Thai as the full moon of the 12th lunar month in Buddhist calendar.

It is celebrated as a religious event and the people make merit and perform religious activities. The high light of this event focuses on the lunching of the Khom Loy or floating lanterns into the bright moonlit-night sky. It is the traditional belief that misfortune and bad luck will fly away with the floating lanterns.

Khom Loy or floating lanterns that are offered to monks and float in the temple is believed that the ones who offered them will receive wisdom and bright future. The flame in the lantern symbolizes knowledge and the light will lead them to the right path of bright future in their lives.

To celebrate this auspicious occasion, people make merit by floating Khom Loy to dispel bad luck and seek good fortune. This will bring joy and happiness to the people as their bad luck has been floated away into the sky. On this occasion we will see thousands of lovely Khom Loy float gently into the sky in the day and at night.

Yi Peng : 10,000 Loy Krathong (Khom Loy ) Festival Lanterns Getting Released

Chiang Mai (เชียงใหม่) is the hub of Northern Thailand.

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Song Loy Krathong 2009

wan-pen duean sip-sawng
nam gaw nawng dtem dtaling
rao tung-laai chai-ying
sanook gun jing wun loy kratong
loy loy kratong
loy loy kratong
loy krathong kan laew
khaw choen nawngkaew
awk maa ramwong
ramwong wan loy krathong
ramwong wan loy krathong
bun ja song hai rao sukjai
bun ja song hai rao sukjai

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วันเพ็ญเดือนสิบสอง
wan-pen duean sip-sawng
The full moon (of) the twelfth month
น้ำก็นองเต็มตลิ่ง
nam gaw nawng dtem dtaling
as water fills to the banks.
เราทั้งหลายชายหญิง
rao tung-laai chai-ying
We, all men and women,
สนุกกันจริงวันลอยกระทง
sanook gun jing wun loy gratong
really have a good time (on) loy krathong day
ลอย ลอย กระทง
loy loy gratong
Float, float the krathongs
ลอย ลอย กระทง
loy loy gratong
Float, float the krathongs
ลอยกระทงกันแล้ว
loy krathong kan laew
After we’ve floated our krathongs,
ขอเชิญน้องแก้ว
khaw choen nawngkaew
(I) invite (you) my darling
ออกมารำวง
awk maa ramwong
to come out and dance.
รำวงวันลอยกระทง
ramwong wan loy krathong
Ramwong (on) loy krathong day
รำวงวันลอยกระทง
ramwong wan loy krathong
Ramwong (on) loy krathong day
บุญจะส่งให้เราสุขใจ
bun ja song hai rao sukjai
(Making) merit will give us happiness
บุญจะส่งให้เราสุขใจ
bun ja song hai rao sukjai
(Making) merit will give us happiness

Venue :
Tha Phae Gate, banks of Ping River, Chiang Mai Municipal Office, Chiang Mai

Highlights :

An amazing procession of hanging lanterns, Krathong design contest, Miss Yi Peng beauty contest, light and sound presentation in Ping River, the ancient Thai Lanna Krathong activities, local cultural performances, and local handicrafts market in Lanna style.

Contact :

- TAT Chiang Mai, Tel : 66 (0) 5324 8604, 66 (0) 5324 8607
Website : www.tourismthailand.org

The Thai tradition of Loy Kratong started off in Sukhothai, but is now celebrated throughout Thailand, with the festivities in Chiang Mai and Ayutthaya being particularly well known.

The beauty contests that accompany the festival are known as “Noppamas Queen Contests”. According to legend, Noppamas was a consort of the Sukothai king Loethai (14th century) and she was the first to float decorated krathongs. The Loi Krathong festival is also associated with the start of vegetable carving.

Song Loy Krathong

The festival probably originated in India as a Hindu festival similar to Deepavali as thanksgiving to the deity of the Ganges with floating lanterns for giving life throughout the year. According to the writings of H.M. King Rama IV in 1863, the originally Brahmanical festival was adapted by Buddhists in Thailand as a ceremony to honour the original Buddha, Siddhartha Guatama. Apart from venerating the Buddha with light (the candle on the raft), the act of floating away the candle raft is symbolic of letting go of all one’s grudges, anger and defilements, so that one can start life afresh on a better foot. People will also cut their fingernails and hair and add them to the raft as a symbol of letting go of the bad parts of oneself. Many Thai believe that floating a krathong will create good luck, and they do it to honor and thank the Goddess of Water, Phra Mae Khongkha (พระแม่คงคา).

Loy Krathong is held on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar. In the western calendar this usually falls in November.

“Loi” means “to float”. “Krathong” is a raft about a handspan in diameter traditionally made from a section of banana tree trunk (although modern-day versions use specially made bread ‘flowers’ and may use styrofoam), decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, incense sticks etc. During the night of the full moon, many people will release a small raft like this on a river. Governmental offices, corporations and other organizations also build much bigger and more elaborate rafts, and these are often judged in contests. In addition, fireworks and beauty contests take place during the festival.