If you are active on Instagram and Pinterest, or even if you’ve just watched the Disney’s Tangled, you’ve likely seen pictures of Chiang Mai’s famous Festival of Lights, Yi Peng.
The Yi Peng Lantern Festival is a special holiday celebrated by the Lanna people of northern Thailand. In Chiang Mai, the stronghold of Lanna culture, houses and temples are decorated with colorful lanterns to mark the approach of the holiday. These festivals are celebrated on the twelfth lunar month according to the Thai calendar on the full moon day. Usually, this falls anywhere from mid-October to mid-November and lasts for a few days.
This festival of lights is iconic for the thousands of paper lanterns released into the sky, often adorned with written messages, prayers, and wishes. The sky lanterns are known as khom loi and usually made from thin pieces of rice paper.
Releasing these lanterns is a symbol of letting go of misfortunes and receiving merit, an important concept in Buddhism. If you release your lantern correctly, it’s believed that your wish will come true IF you do good deeds in the next year.As part of this festival of lights, there are plenty of other activities that happen all over Chiang Mai. These include traditional Thai dance shows, the official ‘Yee Peng Parade’ around the Old City gate and down Tha Phae Road, live music and handicraft sessions.
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