A belief of Northern Thai & A Chinese Thai tradition

Thai tradition is mostly involved in buddhism since most of Thai people are buddhist. I don't know when I started being one of the religion, what I realise is no one can separate Thai people from Buddhism. It's already consolidated in our lives.

Giving food to Buddhist monks at midnight of the Tuesdays before Full Moon Prase Wednesday is one of Northern Thai's believes. 

Buddhist believes that Shin Upagutta who's living in a floating brass palance in the southern ocean is coming to visit us in the Tuesday night before the dawn of Full Moon Phase Wednesday as a monk and any buddhist that can give food to Shin Upagutta appearing as a monk will get lucky.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Upagutta

Last Tuesday night (20/8/2013) was the night before the wednesday, I and my friends went to Upagutta Temple located near Thapae Gate to give dried food to monks. People were crowded here because this temple is the most famous temple for the ceremony. We arrived the temple about 10.40 pm. While we're waiting for the appropiate time, monks already stood in roll along the street and some people were giving dried food to them. I saw two farang men giving boxes of milks to monks as well. I wasn't sure if they knew about our believe but I was sure what they did made us and people standing around smile. :)

     (Crowded people at 11 pm.)

    (Monks already stood in roll)

    (our sleepy faces with happy smiles)

We stood at the temple gate and wondered which monk is Shin Upagutta and laughed. There were around 1,000 monks standing in roll from Navarat Bridge to the Night Bazaar Rd.!

               -----to be continued-----