Origin and History of Thailand's Loy Krathong Festival

The Loy Krathong Festival is said to have originated from the Sukhothai Dynasty and has a history of over 800 years.

The annual Loy Krathong Festival is one of the most important traditional commemorative events in Thailand, and is held on the night of December 15 each year on the Thai calendar. On the origin of the festival of lights, there is no authoritative statement, it is said that the Thai history books are also confused and complex, and there are a variety of versions of folklore.

One of the claims is that the festival began more than 800 years ago in Thailand's first dynasty - the Sukhothai dynasty. At that time, residents gathered in the capital to celebrate the "Festival of Lights" on December 15 of the Thai calendar, when the moon was full.

The emperor would make a dragon boat trip to the river, the queen and her concubines would accompany him, and the people would splash around in the river, followed by fireworks under the auspices of the king and all night long.

Thailand launched a "digital lantern festival":

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration launched a "digital lantern festival" activities, advocating the floating of virtual lanterns, to protect the environment. November 27 evening

With the previous long queues, holding heavy physical water lanterns, in the candle smoke waiting for the release of the lights of the situation is different, the release of the lights of the organizers only need to pick from the preferred water lantern drawings, or on-site coloring, or line coloring, and then into the map sent to the staff to the projection of the surface of the river, you can see their own works of art "leaping on the water! "

In order to reduce the pressure on the environment, experts have called on people to use materials that are easy to decompose to make water lanterns, such as ice cubes, bread and fish feed, and also advocate that each household put only one water lantern. However, experts admit that no matter what the material, candle smoke and bread grease inevitably cause air and water pollution.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia - Water Lantern Festival