Royal Ploughing Ceremony

The proud till Ceremony The lofty plough Ceremony is one of the most beta annual gallant traditional ceremonies, which is held at the open square of Veal Preah Merhu in front of the National Museum in Phnom Penh all year. This ceremony is deemed one of the marvelous blessings of the Cambodian people. Each king has led this solemnisation since ancient times. According to the tradition, the Royal Plowing ceremony is famous to predict the future orn, bean, dirty dog, sesame, water, wine.It is also celebrated to give a blessing to farming and to pray to god for sufficient seasonal rainfall, which is essential to supporting(a) all of the Cambodian farmers to produce a high crop yield. This years Royal Plowing Day was celebrated on May 21st, presided over by His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Baromn decimateh Norodom Sihamoni, King of the terra firma of Cambodia. It was held in the Meru field (Viel Men), north of the Royal castle in Phnom Penh. For this year, Keo Chanmony, a CPP component of Parliament from Kampong Chhnang province, was appointed as Mehour, while Cambodian lawmaker, Say Chhum, acted as Sdech Meak.After finishing the symbolic plow and throwing seeds of a portion of the field, a span of sacrosanct oxen were led to eat rice, clavus, beans, sesame, grass, water and alcohol, which had been prepared on trays. It was seen that the sacred oxen ate corn, beans, and grass precisely shunned rice grain. The oxens alternative of corn, beans, and grass led the Royal Palaces chief astrologist Kang Keng to produce that this years corn and beans harvests leave be bountiful.However, he warned that the eating of grass signaled that Cambodias livestock exit scram from some pandemic diseases. Any way, the astrologer did not spell out to the caboodle what it meant for the rice yield, sparking concern among superstitious farmers. I am very worried that we will not have a sizeable paddy harvest, farmer Ros Makara, 52, told AFP afterwards the ceremony, but I will look for my best to grow rice. I outweart totally rely on the divination. Ok Men, 46, from Prey Veng province, said she was worried about her cows. I have to be anxietyful in taking care of and preventing my cows from contracting diseases, she said. Another corn and bean farmer from Kandal province, Chhit Sorphea, said the prediction made him confident of a vertical harvest, and he would expand his planting. After the rite, the participants could admire the exhibition of agricultural products, agro-industrial products, forest products and by products, domestic animal products, rubber output, touristry potential, and agro-tourism which was held for three days, from 21-23 May 2011, in Viel Men.In that occasion, there have been many media reportage of the Royal Plowing Ceremony this year. In countrys broadcasting much(prenominal) as national TV which transferred to all Cambodias TV and radio, Koh Samtepheap newspaper, DAP news, many website on the internet like www. rfa. org/khmer, www. cambodia. org/news , www. everyday. com. kh , www. news. bbc. co. uk , www. chanbokeo. com, and so on, all of the them have been broadcast this royal ceremony through same stock by different style of each.