{"id":293,"date":"2013-09-30T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhworldimagery.wordpress.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:48:42","slug":"phukets-vegetarian-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/30\/phukets-vegetarian-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Phuket&#8217;s Vegetarian Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A photographic tour<\/h2>\n<p>Phuket&#8217;s Vegetarian Festival &#8211; starting at the end of this week &#8211; perhaps ranks among the strangest in the world. Held over nine days in October, the spectacular Taoist celebration centres around the Chinese community&#8217;s belief that abstinence from meat and stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain a healthy body and mind (35% of Phuket&#8217;s population are Chinese).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"K88-264152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-132197.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Bjorn Svensson<\/p>\n<p>The part of the festival that attracts most notoriety is a ritual where religious devotees perform mutilations while in a trance-like state, including piercing their faces and other parts of their bodies with metal objects.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Procession of the Vegetarian Festival, Phuket, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Aisa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/238-3090.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a9Luca Tettoni<\/div>\n<p>The people who take part in the ritual, called <em>mah song, <\/em>take part in a procession along the streets\u00a0often\u00a0wearing elaborate costumes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sceens of Phuket's Vegetarian festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-200632.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Boaz Rottem<\/p>\n<p>The piercing\u00a0is usually done by physicians from the community,\u00a0without any anaesthetic, outside the temples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" alt=\"Bizarre Vegetarian Festival, Phuket, Thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189576.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189576.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189576-184x245.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189576-255x340.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Dave Stamboulis<\/p>\n<p>Participants have been known to pierce their cheeks and tongues with all manner of things, including swords, banners, machine guns, table lamps, and flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sceens of Phuket's Vegetarian festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-200613.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Boaz Rottem<\/p>\n<p>Teams of people accompany the\u00a0<i>mah song<\/i>\u00a0to keep their wounds clean and to support the heavier piercings. It is believed that while they are in a trance-like, &#8216;possessed&#8217; state, they\u00a0will not feel any pain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mae song in a trance with multiple piercings , chinese vegetarian festival , phuket , thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-276088.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Paul Picasso<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Even the young sometimes take part in the piercing ritual.\u00a0The Chinese gods are said to protect the devotees and little blood or scarring seems to result from the mutilation, even though the participants will be seen around the city wearing bandages after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" alt=\"Knife in boys mouth at the bizarre Vegetarian Festival, Phuket, Thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189580.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189580.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189580-184x245.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-189580-255x340.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Dave Stamboulis<\/p>\n<p>Other incredible physical feats in the festival include walking on hot coals or metal spikes and climbing ladders made from knife blades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sceens of Phuket's Vegetarian festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-200608.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Boaz Rottem<\/p>\n<p>Revellers let of thousands of fire crackers during the street procession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299\" alt=\"firework madness, devotees come under fire during a temple run, firework madness, phuket vegetarian festival, phuket, thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-270939.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-270939.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-270939-277x245.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/817-270939-385x340.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Paul Picasso<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/lightbox-galleries.php?id=22694&amp;gallery=Vegetarian%20Festival\">See more images from the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket and other parts of Thailand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photographic tour Phuket&#8217;s Vegetarian Festival &#8211; starting at the end of this week &#8211; perhaps ranks among the strangest in the world. 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