Dragon and Lion Procession

Each Chinese New Year, thousands of Thai again Chinese kin from several provinces flock into Nakhon Sawan to celebrate further view the procession, an review event since 1914. The progression falls on the 4th waxing lastingness of the Chinese 1st lunar month which usually shower around the end of January or cardinal February of every year. This affair of Nakhon Sawan is organised connections a more grandiose means than those of other provinces in the reign. The colorful besides noisy tidiness includes, among various things, mean Cantonese Singhtoh (i.e. Lions), Dwarf Lion, Hainanese class Lion, Engkaw, Lorkoh the clamorous symbol - like again a Taychew musical parade, followed by a long file of hundreds of beautiful callow maidens. During the festival, however, all hotels of Nakhon Sawan are fully-booked, and the revellers celebrate tide and night, as they do at Chiang Mai's Songkran festival.