Thailand on Tuesday starts celebrating the first day of the Chinese vegetarian festival. Shrines in every province in the country have raised lantern poles to signify the beginning of this year’s vegetarian festival.

In Phuket province, Phuket governor Jamleran Tipayapongtada this morning chaired the lantern pole raising ceremony at Phuket’s Jui Tui Shrine, with both locals and tourists donning white to participate in the ceremony. A ceremony to invite gods to the shrine was also conducted the night before.

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