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Choul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer dialect, truly "Enter New Year", is the name of the Cambodian occasion that praises the New Year. The occasion goes on for three days starting on New Year's Day, which as a rule 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 may celebrate amid a weekend as opposed to simply particularly April 13 through fifteenth. The Khmer New Year concurs with the conventional sun oriented new year in a few sections of India, Sri Lanka, Puthandu, Myanmar and Thailand.
Cambodians additionally utilize Buddhist Era to tally the year taking into account the Buddhist timetable. For 2016, it is 2560 BE (Buddhist Era)
Maha Songkran, got from Sanskrit Maha Sankranti, is the name of the principal day of the new year festivity. It is the end of the year and the start of another one. Individuals spruce up and light candles and blaze incense sticks at places of worship, where the individuals from every family pay respect to offer a debt of gratitude is in order for the Buddha's teachings by bowing, bowing and prostrating themselves three times before his picture. For good fortunes individuals wash their face with sacred water in the morning, their mid-sections at twelve, and their feet in the prior night they go to bed.
Virak Vanabat
Vireak Vanabat is the name of the second day of the new year festivity. Individuals contribute philanthropy to the less lucky by helping poor people, workers, destitute, and low-pay families. Families go to a commitment function to their precursors at cloisters.
Vearak Loeng Sak
T'ngai Loeng Sak in Khmer is the name of the third day of the new year festivity. Buddhists wash the Buddha statues and their seniors with perfumed water. Showering the Buddha pictures is a typical practice to wash awful activities away like water clean earth from family things. It is additionally thought to be a kind deed that will bring life span, good fortunes, satisfaction and thriving in life. By washing their grandparents and folks, the youngsters can get from them all the best and great suggestions to carry on with the life for whatever is left of the year.
New Year's traditions
In sanctuaries, individuals erect a sand hillock on sanctuary grounds. They hill up a major pointed slope of sand or arch in the inside which speaks to sakyamuni satya, the stupa at Tavatimsa, where the Buddha's hair and diadem are covered. The enormous stupa is encompassed by four little ones, which speak to the stupas of the Buddha's most loved followers: Sariputta, Moggallana, Ananda, and Maha Kassapa. There is another custom called Sraung Preah pouring water or fluid mortar (a blend of water with some chalk powder) on senior relative, or individuals (for the most part the more youthful era is in charge of pouring the water).
The Khmer New Year is likewise a period to plan exceptional dishes. One of these is a "kralan": a cake produced using steamed rice blended with beans or peas, ground coconut and coconut milk. The blend is full inside a bamboo stick and gradually roasted. Customary diversions
Cambodia is home to an assortment of recreations played to change the dull days into significant events. These recreations are like those played at Manipur, a north-eastern state in India.Throughout the Khmer New Year, road corners regularly are swarmed with loved ones getting a charge out of a break from schedule, filling their available time with moving and diversions. Commonly, Khmer diversions keep up one's mental and physical skill.
"Chol Chhoung
A diversion played particularly on the main dusk of the Khmer New Year by two gatherings of young men and young ladies. Ten or 20 individuals include every gathering, remaining in two columns inverse each other. One gathering tosses the "chhoung" to the next gathering. When it is gotten, it will be quickly tossed back to the principal bunch. On the off chance that somebody is hit by the "chhoung," the entire gathering must move to get the "chhoung" back while the other gathering sings to the move.
"Chab Kon Kleng
A diversion played by emulating a hen as she shields her chicks from a crow. Grown-ups regularly play this diversion on the night of the principal New Year's Day. Members generally choose a solid player to play the hen who secures "her" chicks, while someone else is picked to be the "crow". While both sides sing a tune of dealing, the crow tries to get however many chicks as could be expected under the circumstances as they hole up behind the hen.
"Bos Angkun
The straightforward style comprises of simply tossing the Ongkunhs to hit the objective Ongkunhs. The amplified style includes five more stages notwithstanding the tossing stage. Both styles end with a punishment called Jours-movement that the triumphant colleagues get the chance to perform on the losing colleagues. The Jours-action is performed by utilizing the Onkunghs the hit the knees of the losing group.
"Spill Kanseng
A diversion played by a gathering of kids sitting around. Somebody holding a "kanseng" (Cambodian towel) that is curved into a round shape strolls around the circle while singing a melody. The individual strolling subtly tries to put the "kanseng" behind one of the youngsters. On the off chance that that picked tyke acknowledges what is going on, he or she should get the "kanseng" and beat the individual sitting alongside him or her.
"Straight Khmer
An amusement played by two kids in rustic or urban territories amid their recreation time. Ten gaps are delved fit as a fiddle of an oval into a board in the ground. The amusement is played with 42 little globules, stones or natural product seeds. Before beginning the diversion, five dots are put into each of the two openings situated at the tip of the board. Four dabs are put in each of the staying eight gaps. The primary player takes every one of the dabs from any opening and drops them one by one in alternate gaps. He or she should rehash this procedure until they have dropped the last dab into a gap that untruths other than any void one. At that point they should take every one of the globules in the opening that takes after the vacant one. Right now, the second player may have his turn. The amusement closes when every one of the openings are void. The player with the best number of dots wins. It is perhaps like congkak.
Angkor Sankranti
Angkor Sankranti is an occasion of Khmer New Year sorted out by the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC) which is held in Siem Reap area from 13–16 April. Angkor Sankranti is an open door for all Cambodians as a unified Khmer Family and for remote companions to get exceptional and stunning encounters amid Khmer New Year in Cambodia.
