Is Thailand fun?

Bangkok Grand Palace, also known as the Forbidden City, is the palace of King I to King VIII of Bangkok Dynasty in Thailand. Grand Palace, with a total area of 2,654.38+0.84 million square meters, is located in the center of Bangkok, the capital, next to the Chao Phraya River. It is the most spectacular ancient architectural complex in Bangkok. 1782, the construction of the Grand Palace was started by the Bangkok dynasty Rama I Paputa Yuhua Jura Lohden. 1784, when the first palace, Amarin Palace, was completed, Rama I moved into the palace to take charge of political affairs. Since then, successive monarchs have gathered the essence of Thai architectural art, continuously expanded the Grand Palace, and the decoration has become increasingly gorgeous, making it reach its present scale. There is a white palace wall around the Grand Palace, which is about 5 meters high and has a total length of 1900 meters. The main color of the building is white, and the style is conjoined. In the garden, there are green grass, flowers in full bloom, trees swaying and fragrant everywhere. The Grand Palace is mainly composed of several palaces and a temple. The temples in the Grand Palace are the famous Jade Buddha Temple buildings.

Located in the northeast corner of Bangkok Grand Palace, Jade Buddha Temple is the most famous Buddhist temple in Thailand and one of the three national treasures in Thailand. Jade Buddha Temple, built in 1784, is a part of the Grand Palace in Thailand, accounting for about 1/4 of the Grand Palace. Jade Buddha Temple is a place where the Thai royal family worships jade Buddha statues and holds religious ceremonies. Named after the jade Buddha enshrined in the temple. There are Jade Buddha Hall, Wang Xiandian, Buddha Bone Hall, Sutra Pavilion, Bell Tower and Golden Pagoda in the temple. Jade Buddha Temple is the main building of the Jade Buddha Temple, and the shrine in the center of the temple enshrines the jade Buddha statue regarded as a national treasure by Thailand. Jade Buddha is 66 cm high and 48 cm wide. It is carved from a whole piece of jasper. Whenever the seasons change, the king of Thailand will personally change clothes for the Jade Buddha to protect his country and defend his country. Whenever the Thai cabinet changes, all cabinet members of the new government will be sworn in to the king at the Jade Buddha Temple. Every May, during the Agricultural Festival, the king will hold religious ceremonies here to pray for a bumper harvest. There is a wall gallery about one kilometer long around the temple, painted with 178 beautiful color comic strips with the theme of Indian classical literature Ramayana, and accompanied by Thai-translated poems. The story of China's Romance of the Three Kingdoms is painted on several large porcelain screens in the Jade Buddha Temple.

Bazhen Bodhi Tree is located in Wankao Village, Gubi District, Shimapu County, Bazhen Province, Thailand. It is the oldest and largest bodhi tree in Thailand. This bodhi tree is very tall, and its trunk is more than 16 meters thick. Only 10 people can hold it together. It is about 6 meters high, the upper branches are about 3 times as high as the trunk, and the branches are dense and wide. The circumference of a square circle is about 52 meters. Sakyamuni once became a Buddha under the bodhi tree in India, so the bodhi tree became a sacred symbol of Buddhism. According to research, this tree was transplanted from India and has a history of 1 100 years. This tree is used as a symbol of the town of Bliba. Shimapu county is also named after this tree. "Pu" means "Bodhi" in Thai, and "Shima" is a great, beautiful and lofty adjective. Not far from the tree, there is a Buddhist temple, Mahapu Temple, called Yuepushi. Every May, there is a grand Buddha worship ceremony.

The Ancient City Museum in Thailand is the largest open-air museum in the world. This is an ancient man-made city, which brings together representative buildings in Thai history. After imitation or original relocation, it was praised as "Thailand Disneyland" by tourists. The ancient city was founded in 1956, and the construction project was extremely complicated, which lasted for 20 years and covered an area of 200 mu. The ancient city is surrounded by brick walls, imitating the outline of Thailand's territory and showing an axe shape, so it is also known as "Little Thailand". There are 75 buildings imitating the most famous temples, pagodas and monuments in Thailand, as well as a small market built on the lake and composed of tall wooden houses. These are all arranged in the museum according to the original geographical location. Some disappeared monuments have been carefully produced according to the original appearance through the textual research of archaeologists and the efforts of artists, and then reappeared in front of people. There are more than a dozen groups of large sculptures made according to Buddhism and Thai folk traditions in the ancient city. In the northeast corner of the city, there is also a wildlife park with many tropical wild animals. Visitors can get a general understanding of the history and art of Thailand since the establishment of Sukhothai Dynasty in 1238.

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Delicious:

The popularity of Thai food can be seen from the large number of Thai restaurants in major cities around the world. Therefore, many tourists who have tasted the spicy, sweet and sour characteristics of Thai food want to experience the delicacy of the birthplace first hand after coming here.

Although deeply influenced by the cooking of China, Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian and even distant Portuguese countries, Thai cuisine still shows its unique cooking characteristics. Most Thai people have a big bowl of rice for dinner, followed by one or two curry dishes, a fish, a soup and a salad (lettuce), which can be eaten in any order according to their preferences. The tableware is a fork and spoon. Snacks after meals are usually seasonal fruits or various desserts made of flour, eggs, coconut milk and palm sugar. Vegetables are fresh, and the cooking method is mostly China wok fire. Coconut milk is used as the basic seasoning of curry sauce in many places in China. Many seasonings include citronella, shrimp sauce, fish sauce and more than a dozen local special spices. The spicy degree of pepper varies from mild to extremely spicy, so you can choose according to your own taste.

Different regions in China have different dishes. For example, people in Northeast China like to eat glutinous rice with roast chicken, and there is also a spicy papaya salad called "Som Tam", which is a mixture of shredded papaya, shrimp, lemon juice, fish sauce, garlic and randomly doped and chopped peppers. Northerners prefer a kind of local sour meat called "Naeem". The food in the south is deeply influenced by the Muslim flavor in Malaysia, and there are all kinds of raw seafood to match. In China, lemon shrimp soup or Dongyin Gong soup, crispy rice noodles (Mikrop)-rice noodles fried with shrimp, pork, eggs and sweet and sour sauce, Thai curry chicken, chicken coconut and Yam Nua are very popular.

In Bangkok, there are many courses taught by Professor cooking school, and friends who are interested in learning how to cook authentic Thai food can sign up.

There are many kinds of desserts in Thailand, mainly fresh fruit, glutinous rice and eggs. Generally speaking, desserts are made of eggs, rice flour, glutinous rice, lotus seeds, palm sugar, potato flour and coconut, while fresh fruits are often used to enhance the flavor of desserts. These fruits include coconuts, bananas, pineapples and oranges. Another feature is that flowers (such as jasmine or rose petals) are soaked in water and made into syrup with water containing flowers. The simplest "cool bleaching", all kinds of oranges and fruits have sweet and sour taste, cut into pieces, add syrup and ice cubes, and float one or two rose or jasmine petals. In hot summer, this is undoubtedly the best cool and sweet drink. Ripe and sweet pineapple juice can also be used as dessert; There are more ways to eat bananas. Thai people like to cut and dry immature green bananas, mix with a little salt and a lot of syrup, and it becomes a good snack. Coconut juice is used a bit like foreign milk, from candy to ice cream and countless desserts. Coconut slices soaked in thick syrup become the main raw material for making desserts. Coconut shreds mixed with salt and sugar are the seasoning of dough.

Usually located in the dining area of large shopping centers and restaurants, it is an unusual Thai business. Many restaurants provide large color photos of all kinds of imaginable Asian cuisines and dishes to help guests choose.

Many Bangkok people like to eat in the open-air garden restaurant and riverside restaurant in the evening. The dishes are very rich, the service is also very agile, the price is generally reasonable, and local specialties also have the opportunity to taste. There is also a boat meal on the Zhaopi River. Mild seasonal winds, dreamy candlelight and distant music create a romantic atmosphere.

Seafood restaurants are also common. They provide all kinds of fresh ingredients, cook or barbecue with charcoal according to personal requirements, as well as exquisite local and imported wines.

Some restaurants mainly for tourists have also prepared Thai classical and ethnic dance performances. The guests sat around a low table with traditional decoration, with teak panels and floors, traditional paintings and precious porcelain decorations. The combination of Thai food, music, silk, orchids and elegant dance will bring you an unforgettable night.

Thai fruit

Thailand's fertile land not only produces abundant rice and vegetables, but also breeds a wide variety of fruits. Delicious fruit is the ingredient of every meal, or often becomes the material of cooking, but the most unforgettable thing is the dazzling sight of fruit fragrance in mature season.

Mango in Thailand, with endless taste, is listed in large quantities from March to June, which is different from mango varieties in Central America and the West Indies. Some varieties should be eaten while the skin is still green; Some glutinous rice flavored with coconut milk is different and interesting.

Another exotic fruit is durian (the king of fruit), which is listed in May and August every year. This kind of fruit is big, with spikes and strong smell, but it has its own unique fragrance. People who taste it for the first time may not be used to its strong smell of gunpowder, but if you try it again, you will love it. You'd rather spend a lot of money to taste various flavors, such as the most famous "golden pillow".

There are many kinds of bananas produced in Thailand, some of which are bigger than fingers, and most of them are produced all year round. Coconuts are common. Coconut juice is not only an indispensable ingredient in Thai cooking, but also a delicious and cool drink to cool off in summer. Other fruits available all year round include papaya, pineapple, orange, orange, lemon, guava and so on.

Longan is a specialty in northern Thailand. The production season is from June to August, and consumers can have a big meal at this time. Litchi is produced in Chiang Rai County and is abundant from April to June.

Plush rambutan, juicy and sweet, white, the production season is May-September. At the same time, the rich mangosteen cut its rich purple shell, and the white flesh was sweet and refreshing. June to September is the rich season; The biggest fruit in Thailand is jackfruit, and the production season is1-May. Grapefruit, which looks like grapefruit, has a large market volume in August-11month and is warmly welcomed by fans.

Visitors will also be surprised to find that in this fruit kingdom, there are still familiar flavors-strawberries, for example,1February to February of the following year, most of which are planted in the north. In addition, there are sweet grapes (both red and green), cantaloupe, avocado, pomegranate and passion fruit.

If you travel to Thailand, you can choose a wide variety of fruits anytime and anywhere, which will make you memorable and fragrant.

Shopping:

More and more tourists find that shopping in Thailand is really fun and cheap. Shopping places all over the country can provide value-for-money transactions. In addition to traditional handicrafts, there are many modern and fashionable products, the quality of which reaches international standards and there are internationally renowned brands.

Thai handicrafts have always been famous for their unique style and pleasing to the eye. In recent years, people at home and abroad like Thai handicrafts. One of the reasons is that the support foundation founded by Queen Sirikit today not only produces many traditional handicrafts, but also sets up a chain store "Chitralada" in Bangkok, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and other tourist attractions for promotion and sales.

Thai silk is the most famous handicraft. Its material is bright, with various patterns and thicknesses. It can be used not only in furniture, but also in fashion. , and has a wide range of uses. Soft Thai cotton cloth has gradually become popular because of its durability and low price.

Almost all areas in Thailand have their own handicrafts, and Chiang Mai, known as the "northern rose", is undoubtedly the center of Thai handicrafts. Here, the technique of meticulous painting pattern has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. The products made by craftsmen include exquisite lacquerware, hand-painted paper umbrellas, meticulous wood carvings, silverware, green sea water celadon and so on. In addition, there are a large number of products with good quality, such as embroidery, silver ornaments and jewelry made by tribes in the northern mountainous areas.

Other noteworthy products include shiny bronzes, wood carvings and rattan furniture, hand-woven mats, Thai musical instruments, black gold inlays, batik fabrics, glazed pottery and bamboo baskets.

But the fun of shopping in Thailand is not limited to traditional items. Many active new enterprises also make good use of Thai handicraft technology to produce all kinds of goods at reasonable prices. For example, Thailand has become an important clothing producer and exporter, and the foreign exchange earned by woven fabrics accounts for the second place in Thailand's foreign exchange source. Visitors can choose a variety of high-end shirts, suits, jackets, jeans, sportswear and so on. From local markets and department stores, and the price is only half that of similar products in Europe and America. Thai design has created many unique fashions, which can be seen everywhere in boutiques in Bangkok.

Exquisite jewelry is another popular product. Skilled gem cutters, goldsmiths and designers use locally produced rubies, sapphires and imported gems as materials to produce first-class jewelry, which attracts discerning buyers from all over the world. With traditional and imaginative modern design taste, it is also waiting for the favor of people who are destined.

In recent years, large shopping centers that have been opened one after another have gathered all kinds of shops, large and small, adding new fun to shopping. One of the most famous is Siam Center, near Siam International Hotel. There are many fashionable clothes and costumes in it. "Siam" is a time-honored brand in Thailand. World Trade Center; Gaisen square, there are various internationally renowned brands in the shopping mall; The old Siam Square is located behind Chalerm Krung Theatre. The Rivertown Shopping Center next to Sheraton Royal Orchid Hotel has shops specializing in antiques on the third and fourth floors. In addition, Mah Boon Krong, opposite Siam Square, is a place to attract young Thai people.

Seacon Square is the largest shopping center in Bangkok, Thailand, and Robinson, another national chain store, also has several branches. Other foreign shops, such as Isetan, sogou, Dongji and Atind Gallery, are also located in Bangkok, and also display local products and imported goods.

People who love shopping may wish to experience the lively atmosphere of the traditional Thai market. Although it may lack the comfort and leisure of big department stores, there is a cheap and good buying experience here. Bang Lam Phu, located near the Grand Palace and the Jade Buddha Temple, is a vibrant market, with ready-made clothes as the sales protagonist. Pra Tunam, close to Indra Hotel, is a place for all kinds of cheap clothes. As for Sampheng, a narrow street in Yaowarat, Chinatown, Thailand, there are stalls selling everything from gold ornaments to kitchen utensils. Chatuchak weekend market is the largest hawker market, and all kinds of products are made and planted in Thailand. It's open from Friday night until midnight on Sunday.

Other popular tourist attractions in China also have their own shopping areas. For example, the famous night market in Chiang Mai is full of local handicrafts; Pataia is a small-scale sale, which is the epitome of Bankok goods; Hoai, far away in the south, is the main distribution center for commodity trading in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.