Bizarre vegetarian festival Thailand.
Local ethnic Chinese population in Thailand, abstain from meat, sex, alcohol and other vices during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. Their suffering – they hope – draws evil out of the community around them and, in doing so, brings positive luck to their friends and ten-day self-cleansing festival’s origins are almost as odd as its unusual rituals. It dates back to 1825, and the visit of a traveling Chinese theatre company to the Thai mining town of Get-Hoe.
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