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On the first day, they take some food to offer the monks at
the monastery in the evening, they gather the sand to build up a
sandal mountain around the pagoda or around the bany tree in
the early evening, and they some drink to the monks and invite
them to bany.
On the second day, children give some new clothes and
money to their parents and grandparents. They also give some gift
to their maids and poor people. In the evening, they go to build
up the sandal mountain and start to bany that they consider it a
Cholamony Chedey
and ask the monks to bony and offer them
the food to dedicate this sin to the spirit of the ancestor.
In the morning of the third day, they also invite the monks
to bany for the sandal mountain. And in the evening, they bath
the monks and statue of Buddha. During this third day, the people
also play some traditional games such as the hand-scarf-throwing
game; they kick the nuts game, the tug of war game, trot dancing
(Battambang, Siem Reap). They also dance some traditional dancing
such as Rorm Vong, Rorm Khbach…. etc.