Vegetarian Festival is a major event of Phuket, attracting visitors to join physical and spirtual purifcation through vegetarianism. Enjoy the miraculous practices by devotees. This annual festival is held on
the 1 - 9 of the waxing moon or in September - October.
The Chinese Mooncake Festival is another significant festival for Chinese for over hundred yeas. It is on the 15 of the eighth moonth in the Chinese calendar. To worship the moon is believed to pay
respect to Thai Im Nia Deity, the Goddess offering peace to all creatures in the earth and the most beaufiful deity. The deity's presence to the earth is believed to take place on the full moon of the eighth month.
Held on the 1 day of the waxing moon in the 7 Chinese month or in the 9 Thai month, this festival features praying to ancestor and spirits by offerings. After worshipping, the paper buming ritual will start, signifying the joumey cost to those spirts. The highlight is a red turtle-shaped Chinese sweets. " Ang-Ku " made of wheat flour and sugar to form dough in different sizes, meaning long life.
It is Hokkian Chinese people tradition which takes place on the ninth day of the first lunar month ( nine days after Chinese New Year ). The worshippers ask for good life by setting the worship table in front of their houses after midnight. The worship things are one pair of sugar cane trees one set of sugar pagoda sweet, six kinds of vegetable; Chinese flower ( kim jium ) tofu bubble ( tekkaki ). vemicelli ( tung-ngung). mushreem ( eiewkor). red monkey apple ( aung-jo ).mushroom
( bognee ). and auspicious sweet and fruit.