Chinese New Year Festival in
Thailand
Date : 5 - 22 February 2010
Venue : Bangkok (Chinatown on Yaowarat Road, CentralWorld Plaza, The National
Theatre), Suphan Buri, Ratchaburi, Ayutthaya, Chonburi (Pattaya), Chiang Mai,
Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Ratcha Srima, Songhkla (Hat Yai), and Phuket.
Thailand’s top destinations celebrate Chinese New Year in style with magnificent
arts and colourful cultural performances presented by artists from 10 provinces
in China. These visiting groups provide rare insights into China’s vast cultural
diversity with authentic demonstrations of Shaolin Kung Fu and acrobatics,
Chinese opera, traditional puppet demonstrations, mask-changing dances, and
Chinese music performances. There are also tribal dances from Tibet and
Mongolia.
One of the main venues in Bangkok is the city’s Chinatown, a fascinating maze of
streets and lanes crammed with shops, restaurants and street-side stalls. But
there are celebrations to mark the arrival of the Year of the Tiger in the
city’s up-scale shopping district around Central World Plaza and the National
Theatre next to Sanam Luang.
Chinese communities abound in various
provinces in Thailand, so visitors are
never too far from the colourful, robust celebrations that mark the arrival of
the New Year. Phuket town on the southern island is an important venue for both
religious and social celebrations. Ayutthaya 70 km north of Bangkok is another
popular venue, while Pattaya on the eastern seaboard, Chiang Mai in the north
and Songkhla on the southern coastline of the Gulf of Thailand are equally
impressive places to visit during Chinese New Year celebrations.
