ASEANEWS HEADLINE-FESTIVAL | Cambodian people celebrate Pchum Ben Festival

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Pchum Ben Festival, or the Festival of the Ancestors, and the second most important annual festival for Cambodian people, is being celebrated across the entire country from today, October 1 through Thursday this week.

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The entire festival actually carries on for 15 days. During the first 14 days, called Kan Ben, people or villagers take turns offering food to monks in nearby monasteries and pagodas in hope that their gifts will reach the souls of their ancestors, aided by virtue of prayers and sermons conducted by Buddhist monks.

The most important part of the festival occurs on the last day of the Pchum Ben, during which all faithful Cambodian Buddhists, rich as well as poor, prepare food and other offerings for their visits to pagodas.

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In a royal message to his loyal subjects on the occasion of the celebration of Kan Ben and Pchum Ben, King Norodom Sihamoni wrote that the annual festival has contributed significantly to nurturing the spirit of national unity, love, preservation, protection of traditions and customs, while promoting Khmer civilisation.

The King highlighted the opportunity the festival represents to reunite with families and loved ones near and far, and to support Buddhist monks who have finished their three-month stay-in period in the pagoda.

Government officials, workers, all employees and citizens across the nation will have three days official holiday from today through Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Tourism record, last year approximately 1.89 million local and international tourists visited attractions during the Pchum Ben Festival, a year-on-year increase of 52%. AKP

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