What are the traditional festivals in Cambodia

1. Cambodian Royal Ploughing Festival: The Royal Ploughing Festival is a traditional festival of the Kingdom of Cambodia, which is held on the fourth day of the sixth month of the Buddhist calendar (generally in May). According to the custom, before the king presided over the ceremony of the Royal Ploughing Festival, farmers are not allowed to open the plough to plow, even if the wrong agricultural time also dare not act rashly.

2. Water Sending Festival: Water Sending Festival, the most important traditional festival in Cambodia, is usually held in October and November every year, which marks the end of the rainy season and the arrival of the fishing season. During the festival, lights are decorated around the Royal Palace and along the Mekong River, and the citizens of Phnom Penh take a three-day holiday to happily enjoy the fruits of the year's labor and welcome the next farming season. The Dragon Boat Race held on the Mekong River in front of the Royal Palace Square is the most lively celebration of the Water Delivery Festival, where rowers from all over the country show off their skills and compete with one another. Fukui Prefecture in Japan also has a water festival on March 2 every year.

3. The Cambodian New Year is celebrated on April 13 of the Gregorian calendar. It is said that a guardian god descends to earth on this day, and the New Year is celebrated to welcome the guardian god. The celebration lasts three days, men, women and children change into festive dress, visit friends and relatives, believers made all kinds of food sent to the temple to worship Buddha and fasting monks.

4, Cambodia Day of the Dead: Day of the Dead in Cambodia, probably equivalent to China's Qingming Festival, according to Cambodian tradition, held every year from October 1 to 15 of the Buddhist calendar, *** carried out 15 days. Among them, the 1st to the 13th days are the days for each to offer sacrifices at home. During the 15 days of the Day of the Dead, every morning at around 4 o'clock, good men and women take sticky rice, pastries, bananas, candles, etc., which are kneaded into small clusters, put them on a plate, and gather in the lobby of the Buddhist temple with hands clasped together to listen to monks chanting sutras.

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The Water Festival - Important MattersThe Royal Government of Cambodia also attaches great importance to this festival, not only has been legislated as a legal holiday, or three days, and the government will set up a special celebration committee to arrange and organize The government has also set up a special celebration committee to arrange and organize the grand celebration activities.

Particularly in the capital, Phnom Penh, preparations usually start a month or two in advance. A week before the festival, you can see the city decorated, but also see the new men and women, the streets and alleys are full of happy and peaceful scenes.

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