YI PENG

(LANTERN
FESTIVAL)
PRESENTADO POR:
LINA FERNANDA VELEZ AGUILERA

Meaning of Yi
Peng and Loy
Krathong
The Yi Peng and Loy
Krathong light festival
has its earliest roots in
Brahmanic
tradition
but Buddhists later
adopted it as a way to
honor
Prince
Siddhartha Gautama
the Buddha.

The Festival of Lights

is
celebrated
all
around Thailand with
Loi Krathongs (lotusshaped receptacles)
released on water to
bring luck and fulfill
wishes.

In Chiang Mai, the

observation
of
the
festival of lights, called
Yi Peng, is uniquely
different.
Instead of water vessel,
Chiang
Mai
people
release thousand of
lighted lanterns in the
sky while making a
wish.

The sky transforms itself in a wonderful and

surreal sea of little lanterns floating away. The
spectacle is mesmerizing.