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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 in 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.
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