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เรื่องที่ 2 ขนมธรรมเนียมประเพณีของเจาของภาษา

Let’s Celebrate!

Holidays and Festivals

January or February Chinese New Year : Chinese people celebrate with firecrackers

and lion dances.

April 13-15 Songkran Festival or traditional Thai New Year is celebrated during

April 13-15. At that time people make merit, show respect to the elders

by pouring water on their hands, and splash water at one another.

May 5 Children’s Day (formerly Boy’s Day) : Japanese families put up coloured

streamers shaped like fish, in honor of their children.
October 31 Halloween : American children wear costumers and go “trick or treating.”

November 2 Day of the Dead Mexican families have picnics in cementeries and offer food

to the dead.
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November Loy Krathong or Festival of light is held on full moon day of the 12 Thai

lunar month in November, People carry their Krathongs to float them on the

nearby water. The Krathong are made of banana leaves and decorated with

flowers,

a candle, three joss sticks.
December 25 Christmas : People in many countries decorate Christmas trees and give each

other present.