The Khmer New Year Festival
The Khmer New Year usually happens on April This is a happy time when Combodians celebrate the New Year.
Before the New Year starts, people clean the house and everything and put some lncanse, candles , fruits, flower and other things on a table in front of their house. In the morning of the first day. The older people take food, cakes, incense, candles and flowers to the pagoda and pray for their ancestors, The young people enjoy Khmer popular games at home or in the pagoda. In the aftemoon people retum to the pagoda pray with the monks and listen to traditional music then they listen traditional music. Then they enjoy traditional game and dance. In the evening then they invlfe their friends and and. Neighbours for dinner. Then they play games and dance in front of their houses. On the second day. People do the same things as on the first day. But in the aftemoon of the third day there is an important ceremony. The monks say special prayers and throw water over the Buddhas and people.
The Khmer New Year is a very happy time for all Cambodian people.
Before the New Year starts, people clean the house and everything and put some lncanse, candles , fruits, flower and other things on a table in front of their house. In the morning of the first day. The older people take food, cakes, incense, candles and flowers to the pagoda and pray for their ancestors, The young people enjoy Khmer popular games at home or in the pagoda. In the aftemoon people retum to the pagoda pray with the monks and listen to traditional music then they listen traditional music. Then they enjoy traditional game and dance. In the evening then they invlfe their friends and and. Neighbours for dinner. Then they play games and dance in front of their houses. On the second day. People do the same things as on the first day. But in the aftemoon of the third day there is an important ceremony. The monks say special prayers and throw water over the Buddhas and people.
The Khmer New Year is a very happy time for all Cambodian people.
Cambodian New Year or Chaul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer dialect, actually "Enter New Year", is the name of the Cambodian occasion that commends the New Year. The occasion goes on for three days starting on New Year's Day, which more often than not falls on April 13 or fourteenth, which is the end of the gathering season, when ranchers appreciate the their rewards for all the hard work before the blustery season starts. Khmers living abroad might celebrate amid a weekend as opposed to simply particularly April 13 through fifteenth. The Khmer New Year corresponds with the customary sunlight based new year in a few sections of India, Sri Lanka, Puthandu, Myanmar and Thailand.
Cambodians additionally utilize Buddhist Era to tally the year in light of the Buddhist logbook. For 2012, it is 2556 BE (Buddhist Era)
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