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Choul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer dialect, actually "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 for the most part 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 stormy season starts. Khmers living abroad may celebrate amid a weekend as opposed to simply particularly April 13 through fifteenth. The Khmer New Year corresponds with the conventional sunlight based new year in a few sections of India, Sri Lanka, Puthandu, Myanmar and Thailand.
Cambodians additionally utilize Buddhist Era to number the year in view of the Buddhist date-book. For 2016, it is 2560 BE (Buddhist Era)Cambodian New Year (Khmer: or Choul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer dialect, actually "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 typically falls on April 13 or fourteenth, which is the end of the reaping season, when agriculturists appreciate the their rewards for all the hard work before the stormy season starts. Khmers living abroad may celebrate amid a weekend as opposed to simply particularly April 13 through fifteenth. The Khmer New Year corresponds with the customary sun oriented new year in a few sections of India, Sri Lanka, Puthandu, Myanmar and Thailand.
Cambodians likewise utilize Buddhist Era to number the year in light of the Buddhist schedule. For 2016, it is 2560 BE (Buddhist Era)
The three days of the new yearMaha Songkran, got from Sanskrit Maha Sankranti, is the name of the primary 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 hallowed places, where the individuals from every family pay praise 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 blessed 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 blessed by helping poor people, workers, destitute, and low-pay families. Families go to a commitment service to their predecessors at religious communities.
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 senior citizens with perfumed water. Showering the Buddha pictures is a typical practice to wash terrible activities away like water clean soil from family things. It is additionally thought to be a kind deed that will bring life span, good fortunes, bliss and flourishing in life. By washing their grandparents and folks, the kids can get from them all the best and great suggestions to carry on with the life for whatever remains of the year.
New Year's customsIn sanctuaries, individuals erect a sand hillock on sanctuary grounds. They hill up a major pointed slope of sand or vault 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 educates: Sariputta, Moggallana, Ananda, and Maha Kassapa. There is another custom called Sraung Preah (ស្រង់ព្រះ) : 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 additionally a period to get ready uncommon dishes. One of these is a "kralan": a cake produced using steamed rice blended with beans or peas, ground coconut and coconut drain. The blend is full inside a bamboo stick and gradually simmered.
Customary diversions
Cambodia is home to an assortment of recreations played to change the dull days into significant events. These diversions are like those played at Manipur, a north-eastern state in India.Throughout the Khmer New Year, road corners frequently are swarmed with loved ones getting a charge out of a break from schedule, filling their spare time with moving and recreations. Normally, Khmer recreations keep up one's mental and physical skill.
"Chol Chhoung
An amusement played particularly on the principal dusk of the Khmer New Year by two gatherings of young men and young ladies. Ten or 20 individuals involve 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 primary gathering. In the event that somebody is hit by the "chhoung," the entire gathering should 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 commonly play this diversion on the night of the primary New Year's Day. Members for the most part select a solid player to play the hen who ensures "her" chicks, while someone else is picked to be the "crow". While both sides sing a tune of haggling, the crow tries to get whatever number chicks as could reasonably be expected as they hole up behind the hen.
"Bos Angkunh
The basic style comprises of simply tossing the Ongkunhs to hit the objective Ongkunhs. The broadened style includes five more stages notwithstanding the tossing arrange. Both styles end with a punishment called Jours-movement that the triumphant colleagues get the opportunity 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
An amusement played by a gathering of kids sitting around. Somebody holding a "kanseng" (Cambodian towel) that is contorted into a round shape strolls around the circle while singing a melody. The individual strolling furtively tries to put the "kanseng" behind one of the kids. 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.
"Cove Khom
An amusement played by two youngsters in country or urban regions amid their recreation time. Ten openings are dove fit as a fiddle of an oval into a board in the ground. The diversion is played with 42 little dabs, stones or natural product seeds. Before beginning the diversion, five dots are put into each of the two gaps situated at the tip of the board. Four dabs are set in each of the staying eight gaps. The principal 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 an opening that lies other than any vacant one. At that point they should take every one of the globules in the opening that takes after the unfilled one. As of 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 dabs wins. It is conceivably 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 an assembled Khmer Family and for remote companions to get life-changing and wonderful encounters amid Khmer New Year in Cambodia.
