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Loy Krathong coincides with the Lanna (northern Thai) festival known as Yi Peng (Thai: ยี่เป็ง). Yi means 'two' and peng means a 'full moon day'. Yi Peng refers to the full moon day in the second month according to the Lanna lunar calendar (the twelfth month of the Thai lunar calendar). [36] The festival is meant as a time to make ...
The Lantern Festival celebrates the first full moon of the year — hence the name (Yuan means beginning. Xiao means night). It marks the departure of winter and the beginning of the spring season.
This year, the 15-day festival begins Friday and will be a time for adherents to usher in a new year with a variety of cultural traditions. Here's everything to know about the 2025 Lunar New Year ...
During the Lantern Festival, the park is a virtual ocean of lanterns. Many new designs attract large numbers of visitors. The most eye-catching lantern is the Dragon Pole. This is a lantern in the shape of a golden dragon, spiraling up a 38-meter-high pole, spewing fireworks from its mouth.
One very important festival in which sky lanterns are used is the Yi Peng festival, which is held on a full moon of the 2nd month (ยี่เป็ง, Yi Peng, [jîː pēŋ]) of the Lanna calendar (which coincides with Loi Krathong, the traditional festival on the 12th month of the Thai lunar calendar). During the Yi Peng festival, a ...
The Yi Peng 3 left the port of Ust-Luga, Russia, on 15 November with a load of fertilizer, [3] a week prior to the cables being damaged. The ship came under investigation for possibly cutting through the submarine cable that linked Sweden and Lithuania, and within twenty-four hours also severing the cable between Finland and Germany, which is the only cable linking the two countries.
People floating krathong rafts during the Loi Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand Yi Peng, floating lantern festival in Northern Thailand, observed around the same time as Loy Krathong. Loy Krathong is another important festival celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month, which usually falls in November.
In the past, the lanterns have burned homes to the ground and caused damage to power lines, according to one outlet.