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Vegetarian
Festival
Lived
with
the
people
of
Phuket
for
a
long
time.
more
than
a
hundred
years
Vegetarian
diet
started
from
The
opera
troupe
is
from
China.
to
show
at
Kathu
District
and
having
a
vegetarian
ceremony
there
for
the
first
time
Due
to
the
outbreak
of
epidemics,
a
lot
of
people
died
and
got
sick.
but
it
is
strange
None
of
the
people
in
the
opera
troupe
were
sick.
after
an
inquiry
The
opera
troupe
worshiped
Chinese
gods
and
ate
vegetarian
food,
abstained
from
meat,
and
performed
fasting
for
nine
days
and
nine
nights.
and
a
miraculous
event
occurred
that
made
the
villagers
in
that
area
recover
from
the
plague.
And
it
was
asked
that
the
opera
troupe
to
convey
the
complete
vegetarian
ritual.
Money
was
then
raised
for
the
opera
troupe
to
travel
back
to
China
to
bring
the
ritual
and
vegetarianism
back
to
Phuket.
Three
months
later,
after
the
villagers
had
waited
in
despair,
a
junk
boat
arrived
at
the
sa-phan
-hin
bridge.
and
someone
from
the
opera
came
back
with
Statues
of
gods
and
incense
burners
have
been
brought
to
Kathu
District,
where
vegetarian
events
will
be
held
on
the
calendar
on
the
first
day
of
the
ninth
lunar
month
of
every
year,
and
the
tradition
of
vegetarianism
in
Phuket
is
well
known
to
foreign
countries.
Every
year,
Thai
and
foreign
tourists
come
together
to
dress
in
white.
to
participate
in
the
vegetarian
festival
It
is
another
important
highlight
of
Phuket
Province.
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