Musicians playing for the Chinese lion dance on Chinese New Year yesterday. KT/Pann Rachana

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A family lights incense and makes offerings to the ancestors on Chinese New Year’s Eve in Phnom Penh yesterday. The Chinese community, including Cambodian-Chinese, around the world will usher in the Year of the Ox today. KT/Siv Channa

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Have you seen the lion or dragon dancing to the drum or heard the firecrackers? It’s the Chinese New Year celebration. However, it’s not in Beijing or Hong Kong. It’s right in Phnom Penh and other major cities and towns across Cambodia.

Let’s pretend you are also Chinese and enjoy the feast. It’s what many local Khmer people do.

Eang Nam, a 66-year-old Chinese Cambodian says about 90 people in his Kampong Cham province’s Prek Koy commune celebrate Chinese New Year. He says most of the Chinese New Year revellers are local Khmer people.

“Like other Chinese festivals, we offer food and wine to the spirits of our ancestors, grandparents, and parents to show our gratitude to them,” he says. “So, many local Khmer people follow us, because they also want to pay respect to their ancestors.

Nam says children of Chinese ancestry just follow what their grandparents and parents used to do the same way they followed the tradition of their ancestors.

READ MORE:  https://aseanews.net/2021/02/12/headline-national-cny-february-12-2021-all-set-for-the-year-of-the-ox/

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Moeun Chhean Nariddh / Khmer Times

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Here is the GLOBAL status as of Friday, 7am, February 12, 2021

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The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 218 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.

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COVID-19 infection crosses 108.2 million globally as deaths cross are at 2.37 million.

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THE CURE: VACCINES

Covid-19 vaccines administered (115 million) had now overtaken the number of infections worldwide (104 million), more than three-quarters of the jabs had been handed out in just 10 wealthy countries.

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The update-2.12.2021 Sick Earth Plague Day 443

 (1 Year, 2 Months, 13Days)

Coronavirus Covid-19

Cases Globally: 108,251,410:
Deaths: 2,376,312:
Recovered: 80,278,008.

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