The water festival is the oldest traditional ceremony in Cambodia.The water festival had background for so long time. The water festival ceremony is the army training to do attest of the army for preparing to do a battle. In the history, Khmer King always does the battle with enemies by sailing. So he prepares this water festival ceremony every year to choose Champion of sailing battle, as Angkor Wat temple and the history book of Cambodia in the Preah Bat Jayvarman VII. We had seen a lot of statues about sailing battle under leading of Jayvarman VII. The custom of this is to have from then up to the present. On the other hand the water is celebrated every years in November to honor the victory of Cambodian Naval forces in the reign of King JayvarmanVII, during Angkor period of the 12th century. Unfortunately the Cambodia cant celebrated three year ago.I hope Cambodia can recelebrate this water festival again next year.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:09:40 +0000
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