Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
In February the festival that Thai peoples known is Chinese New Year. The children are very loves this festival because they’ll receive “Ang-Pao”- the red case that has money inside. And every Chinese people in Thailand will pay respect to Chinese god in the day before Chinese New Year.
This year I’ll tell my experience in this festival. As you know the children love this festival because the money that they received and it’s like a family day for us. We came to the family’s center house and talking that what happened in the past year. Three years ago we’ve been to Pattaya all our families and go to the beach at Pattaya Park. In Pattaya Park you’ll have a lot of fun because they’ve an excitement machine. More than the machine you’ll have a great experience with a swimming pool. And then we return to Bangkok. The next day we move to different place where we working for and continue working hard. For the other who didn’t work they moving to the famous Chinese temple on Chinatown Thailand the name of this temple called The Dragon Temple. So many of Chinese people will come and pay respect to their god and prey for a better year to come. You must have 21 joss sticks to pay respect for the god inside this temple. When you finished from this temple you can walk through a lane next to this temple to go to the “Por-Teg-Tung Foundation”. This place is also a Chinese temple but you can write your name on the paper and go to pay the money 15 baht each name and the Chinese monk will prey for you all day all night. And the famous thing from this temple is the sago palm from the Chinese monk’s prey. If you eat this sago palm you’ll be better for the New Year to come. If you want to go to pay respect for a god in the Dragon Temple don’t forget 12 oranges and 21 joss sticks or you can buy from the shop in the temple. The day before Chinese New Year day is the day that god went to the heaven and in Chinese New Year day god will came down from heaven to give a blessing to Chinese people.