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ongkran
Festival
People in the world always say that New Year celebrates their
happy festival. They usually schedule and prepare it differently,
depend on their belief and tradition. For Cambodian have hold it
since past till the present.
The festival usually is in 3 days period. The first day is “MOHA
SANGKRAN” the second day is “VORNBORTH” and the third day is
“THNGAI LIENG SAK”. For that time they start to change the old year
when the angle comes to get the duties from the former angles
were scheduled clearly.
A few days before the Khmer New Year’s day, they prepared
some food, clean their house, bought some news and so on.
When the New Year’s Day comes, they prepare something such as
5 candles, 5 incenses, a pair of 5 Baysey, a pair
of Baysey Baklam
,
a pair of
Slathor
(a ceremonial ornament made with a banana tree
trunk bake), a tray of cigarettes, some flowers and some fruits to
sacrifice to the new heaven. When every is ready, they sit together
near that place and light the candles to pray for happiness from
the new heaven and start to pray before breaking each other. On
the other hand, we have different celebrations during these 3 days
of New Year’s Day.