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Pchum Ben (Khmer: ភ្ជុំបិណ្ឌ, Phchŭm Bĕnd [pʰcom bən], lit. ' balled rice gathering ' or Khmer: សែនដូនតា, Sen Don Ta, lit. ' offerings for ancestors ' in the Khmer Surin and Khmer Krom communities) is a Cambodian 15-day religious festival, culminating in celebrations on the 15th day of the tenth month in the Khmer calendar, at the end of the Buddhist ...
Cambodians threw rice on the ground on Tuesday to mark the 'Festival of the Dead' or Pchum Ben and feed the spirits of the dead. "During the first day of Pchum Ben, our dead relatives came to find ...
The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day (or "Chheng Meng among the Khmer locals), is a Chinese festival when people bring food and drinks to the graves of their ancestors. In Cambodia, this festival is largely associated with Pchum Ben Festival and is mainly a chance for people to pray for happiness, success and promotion. [9]
21–23 September – Pchum Ben; 24 September – Constitution Day; 15 October – Commemoration Day of the King's Father; 29 October – King Norodom Sihamoni's Coronation Day; 4–6 November – Royal Water Festival; 9 November – Independence Day; 29 December – Cambodia Peace Day
At the same time, the nom ansom is also typical for the Khmer New Year, [5] as recorded in the novel of Khmer author Vaddey Ratner. [6] In some ways, it is the manes of ancestors, both of the individual families, remembered during Pchum Ben, and of the Khmer people as a whole, remembered during the Khmer New Year.
In Cambodia, a fifteen-day-long annual festival known as Pchum Ben occurs generally in September or October. Cambodians pay their respects to deceased relatives up to seven generations. The gates of hell are believed to open during this period and many people make offerings to these hungry ghosts. [43]
Hundreds of Cambodian villagers on Tuesday took part in a rare traditional guardian spirit ceremony praying for good fortune, rain and prosperity, as they aimed to preserve this ancient tradition.
In Khmer the two words smot and tomnounh (ទំនួញ, i.e. to lament) are often associated. One of the most popular forms of smot sang during the Khmer festival of Pchum Ben is the Tom Nounh Pret (ទំនួញប្រេត, the Lament of the Ghost) which plays heavily upon the Khmer popular belief in the evil influence of ghosts.