Are you planning to go to Pacific Rim in the next year, & are searching for some fun festivities to attend? Well, look no further – we have researched a number of the more awesome Asian holidays for you to check out during your travels. Travel Pacific Rim: Parade of the God of Drugs. You can possibly never see a water buffalo enhanced like this.
If you travel to Pulilan in the second week of May, you will witness the homage to the guardian saint of farmers, San Isidro Labrador. Families take their cherished water buffalos, scrape away the dust, shave them, anoint them in oils, & then parade them round the town square dressed as kings. The monks of the Asian town then kneel & ask the buffalos to praise them, promising health & beautiful wishes for the approaching year to all, including visiting travelers.
On the fifteenth day of the 3rd lunar month, the city of Taiwan is taken over by this world-renowned Asian festivity – a must for travelers in the area because of its impressive parade. At the nucleus of the 160 church parties are Pao Sheng in Taipei & the Church of Ching Tzu in Hseuhchia. Spearheaded by a group called the Centipedes, worshippers attending the city-wide parade throw themselves on the ground to be stepped on, as a symbolical exorcising of their demons. In the middle of May, things get loud for Asian travelers to the Phaya Thaen Park in Thailand. Traditionally, the holiday started as an offering to the gods of the sky, exploding beautiful rockets to urge rainfall for rice crop expansion. Nowadays, event has become something more of a sport, with competitions to see whose rocket can fly the farthest, & whose explodes the most.
Tokyo’s version of the Rio Carnaval occurs each Aug, in the Asakusa district.
Travelers to Pacific Rim & locals alike are dazzled by the colorful sequined costumes & feathers of the dancing Samba girls, together with their full bands marching down the road alongside them. Travel East Asia: The Holiday of the Hungry Spooks. HK hosts this weird annual event, held on the 14th day of the 7th moon (sometime in Aug, in a full moon).
Legend claims the gates of Hades were opened on this day, & the dead who can’t rest were left to run the streets naughtily. The Yue Lan Holiday, as it is understood in Chinese, has locals of the town putting up strange paper monuments all over the streets, which are then ceremoniously burned on the final day. The Monkey God first appeared in Chinese literature in the Ming Dynasty in the book, “Pilgrims to the West”. Since then, this deity has been celebrated in the month of Sep at Kowloon’s Sau Mau Ping Temple, by recreating a peculiar tried execution by other the other gods – which includes such stuff as a ladder of knives, & charcoal set aflame.