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During New Year of Mexico and Thailand Songkran (New Year), before New Year will have a big cleaning of the house in other to bring the good luck and new start. Government office, many of the businesses, Bank are closed to celebrate this festival. Mexico and Thailand are also celebrating New Year with friends and family. People are having local food and party. The festival is including local performance, dance and Music.
Charreria festival is Mexico national sport festival held at the first week of September. The festival is about horse riding, races and roping skills. In Thailand there are also similar festival called Buffalo Racing Festival at Chonburi. It is about buffalo races. This two festival are reflecting the local tradition,
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For Buddhism will visit Buddhist temple and provide food to the monks also built sand pyramid and will decoration with flower of flag on the top, also to wash the Buddha. On Songkran festival are including throwing water to each other, using water gun and bucket, family and friends are enjoying the water festival at the same time. Concerning to Mexico New Year are held at 1 January, Mexico will organize the fire work between New Year Eve’s and New Year’s Day. People are asked to write something good and bad about current year on the paper. And this have to list before midnight. This is remove the bad thing. Traditional Mexico New Year, It mention that for Mexican women to decide the destiny for the next year are according to choose the color of the inner underwear, red is for love, green is for finance growth, white is for good health and yellow for good luck. Another tradition is to eat 12 grapes at midnight and while eating Mexican people will make a wish for the coming year. The different between Charreria Festival and Buffalo Racing Festival is that Buffalo Racing Festival the music concert will be take place in the evening. The event also organise a separate area for children to enjoy. For Charreria Festival is that they have the competitions for both men and women. It is not only including racing but also roping skills. People will wear traditional charro clothing while …show more content…
As it is one point that can show the strength of the countries and can attract local and international tourist to visit the country. Festival are built by using historical, culture, art to develop the event to create cultural image. It is develop through the economic opportunities. And help from the government that supporting and to promote the event and the aim is for develop the economic, build the image of the country throughout different

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