Khmer New Year
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Khmer New Year or Chaul Chnam Thmey
Have you ever celebrated new year in April? Cambodia's Khmer celebrate New Year not on January 1 as in the western world or on assorted dates in February as do the Chinese and Vietnamese. Sometime around mid April when the harvest is in and it is time to kick back and enjoy life, the annual Buddhist Calendar based Khmer New Year festival springs to life and it's time to look back with thanks and ahead with hope and confidence. It's also a great chance for westerners to come to Cambodia and catch local folks in the act of being themselves!
For new year, Buddhist Khmer prepare a table where they put candles, incenses, bottles of perfume, pop rice, a pair of 5 Baysei prumbountnak (a ceremonial ornament made from banana trunk with 9 layers), a pair of Baysei prumpitnak (7 layers) and prumtnak (five layers), cigarettes, flowers and fruits to offer to the New Year Angel who will be visiting. Nowadays, these Baysei are already manufactured to last longer like the one in the picture. Then, when the time designated for the arrival of the New Year Angel comes, the family gathers around these offerings to pray for happiness, health and prosperity for the new year.
Happy Khmer New Year
Susdei Chnam Thmei
May the New Year Angel bring you and your family prosperity, joy and peace.
Some Khmer New Year Offering
Baysei and Sla Thor
Baysei are those conical offering with several layers similar to the picture in the introduction of the lens. Baysei, in the past, used to be made from banana trunks but, presently, these have already been artificially made except in the rural areas. Sla Thor is the coconut you see in the video. The Khmer offer these on their tables during Khmer New Year.
Baysei in Picture
Baysei Now Used for Offering
Many Khmer now use the store bought baysei not the ones made from banana stalks except in the rural areas when they still stick to this tradition because of the availability of banana stalks.
Celebrate New Year with the Khmer
Come and enjoy the New Year with the Khmer
The most satisfying way to enjoy Khmer New Year is to go to the temple where the locals gather and dance the day and night there. They have games, dances and all kinds of plays to celebrate. Be prepared for some powder put on you or water splashed or poured over you. When you're older, they often ask first. But be part of the fun.
If you are not in Cambodia, many Khmer communities in other parts of the world celebrate new year there. Go and greet them.
Here's your guide to Cambodia
Get one before you go for Khmer New Year
Ifind having a guide book always useful when I visit a place for the first time. I am able to identify and choose the things I want to do and the places I want to visit as described in the guide book. In Cambodia's big cities like Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, there are also various guide booklets locally produced and more current. These can easily be found in many of the restaurants and hotel lobbies.But if you want to have a good background before you leave for Khmer New Year, here are some choices for you.
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Khmer New Year on the Buddhist Calendar
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Preparations for New Year
Women Get Busy
Everyone is excited as the women get the decorations and the food mandated in the guide book. The angle must have the things she likes. Phnom Penh workers are planning their way home and negotiating vacations. This is one day when everyone goes home and be with the family.
Days before the celebration, Khmer families go home to their home province. This exodus from the city continues until the day before the new year celebration. They all go bringing gifts to their home province to celebrate the new year with their families. Some people from Phnom Penh have already gone to the provinces. Our newspaper lady has closed her stall and has gone with her family to the province. The Phnom Penh police are getting ready for this exodus as they will have to help ease traffic jams and stop burglaries as Phnom Penh families leave their homes empty.
Watch the Khmer Prepare for New Year
Major Preparation
The Khmer New Year Offering
The Family Put their Offering to the Khmer New Year Angel
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It is amazing how the Khmer in spite of its gripping history are still able to celebrate and adhere to their traditional rituals. To have a good understanding of Cambodia, read and understand it from this girl's point of view. This is the author's narrative of what she and her family as well as other people around them experienced during the reign of the Khmer Rouge.
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Khmer New Year: A Three Day Celebration
Starts with Moha Songkran
This New Year celebration is for 3 days, three considered by the Khmer to be an auspicious number. Each day has a distinct name to express the ritual being followed: the first day being Maha Songkran, the second day, Virak Wanabat and the third, Thngay Leang Saka. Each one takes energy and family team activity, like ramping up to Christmas.
Days before the Chaul Chnam Thmey, Cambodian Khmer get busy. They clean the house, every corner of it. The angel may check! They prepare special food and buy new clothes. Even the husband gets a polishing and grandma a decent dusting at least. Everything has to be spic and span for the visit of the New Year Angel and with the kids, you've got it, she knows who has been naughty or nice.
First Day of Khmer New Year, Moha Songkran
The Coming of the Khmer New Year Angel
Moha Songkran, the first day of the celebration, marks the end of the year and the beginning of a new one. People wake up early, primp up in their new finery, light candles and burn incense sticks in the house shrines to the family spirits. The special table is ready to welcome the new angel with fresh fruits, flowers and all the other things required. Members of each family do the needful and offer thanks to Buddha. As the small prayer houses are often by the front steps of the houses or the entrance to the small businesses, you can see whole families bowing, kneeling and prostrating themselves three times before Buddha's image.
Then, they go to the temple to get the monks blessings for the new year. The temples organize games and songs and dances which all pass on the Khmer New Year tradition to the succeeding generation. On the temple grounds, Khmer also build sand hills with five religious flags, one on top and the others around it. These 5 flags represent the five disciples of Buddha. Recent years brought with it practices like putting powder and splashing water which have now been incorporated in the Khmer New Year practices.
For good luck, the Khmer also wash their face with holy water in the morning, their bodies at noon, and their feet in the evening before they go to bed. The rituals are observed by most Cambodians, not just the village folk and missing the moment is like stepping on superman's cape. The angel is secretly watching!
Khmer New Year Angels Exchange Ceremony
Pithy Pter Domnaegn
This video shows the exchange ceremony between the new angel, Kemeria Tevi and the old one, Kariney Tevi. The new angel brings back the head of the king-god from the sky where it stays the whole year. She presents this head to the old angel. The old angel then asks the new angel how the journey was and proceeds to tell her all the problems she has to take care of. Then, the old angel brings back to the sky the head of the king-god leaving the new angel to spread blessings to the families who welcome her to their homes.
The 2012 Khmer New Year Angel
Kemeria Tevi
You can see this year's angel, Kemeria Tevi, on the cover of the book, Moha Songkran, published each year to guide the Khmer on how to celebrate this new year. The offerings are clearly stated there and the time when the angel arrives. Kemeria Tevi is the Friday angel and she will come riding the buffalo. Of course, this being the year of the dragon, the dragon leads the procession. She does NOT say ho ho ho but she holds a sword in her right hand and a peng, a musical instrument in her left.
The coming of the angel will be announced by drums and gongs in the temples. It looks like this year, Kemeria Tevi, the 2012 new year angel will come at around eleven minutes past the 19th hour (19:11). At home, the Khmer watch the television to wait for the signal that the angel has come. It's the same guys that do the Santa radar watch. At the airing of the signal, the family gathers around the table prepared specially for this occasion and pray to the angel to give them the blessing.
What the Khmer New Year Angel Wants for 2012
Kemeria Tevi has made her desire known
The Khmer believe that the families that prepare well to welcome the New Year Angel, will get what they pray for. In fact, astrologers are employed to determine what the angels love. It turns out that for 2010, the New Year Angel wanted fresh milk and red juice.
This year, 2012, the New Year Angel offering will include 5 flowers to be placed on the "jeungpin", yellow banana, a pair of coconuts, 11 items of fruits, 2 glasses of water,2 bottles of perfume, 5 candles, 5 incense sticks and 5 "leach" or pop rice. Don't forget to wear white and make sure you have you baysey ( a pair of 9 layers, a pair of 7 layers, a pair of five layers and another pair of 3 layers. The, add a pair of "pakchham" and a pair of "slathor". So, start getting ready now and let the Khmer New Year Angel find you worthy.
The 2011 Khmer New Year Angel
KarineyTevi
The 2011 Khmer New Year Angel, Kariney Tevi was the fifth youngest in the family of seven. She came riding on an elephant joined by a cast of thousands of angels. At the lead of the procession was the guide angel riding a rabbit, this being the year of the rabbit and therefore her knowing the way. Please, do not call her Rudolph!
She came between 11-12 noon on the 14th of April, a Thursday, as stated in the booklet, Moha Songkran. She wore green, the color that Khmer wear when they go to the temple on a Thursday.
Introducing the other Khmer New Year Angels
Names of the Khmer New Year Angels
There are seven Khmer new year angels, each one representing the day of the week. This year's angel is the Thursday angel, the first day of 2011 Khmer New Year being a Thursday. She is dressed in green, the Thursday Khmer lucky color for going to the temple. The others are:
- 1First Angel: Tuksa Tevi. The Sunday Angel who comes riding a bird of fire, the Phoenix.
- 2Second Angel: Korike Tevi. The Monday Angel who comes riding a Tiger.
- 3Third Angel: Reakyasa Tevi. The Tuesday Angel who comes riding an Atsara.
- 4Fourth Angel: Mondea Tevi. The Wednesday Angel who comes riding a donkey.
- 5Fifth Angel: Kariney Tevi. The Thursday Angel who comes riding and elephant. This is the 2011 angel as the first day of Khmer New Year this year is Thursday.
- 6Sixth Angel: Kemerea Tevi. The Friday Angel who comes riding a buffalo.
- 7Seventh Angel: Mohouterea Tevi. The Saturday Angel who comes riding a peacock.
Introducing the New Year Angels in a Traditional Khmer New Year Song
Tayb-Tee-Ta-Moha Songkran
This traditional Khmer New Year Song starts with the lady asking the gentleman to prove that he is knowledgeable. So she challenges him to name the seven Khmer angels and he does so describing each one of them. The crowd sings and dances as well as make some funny pranks as they reenact this in the grounds of the temple on the first day of Khmer New Year.
Khmer New Year Traditional Songs
Explain the history and meaning of the Khmer New Year Celebration
Khmer celebrate the first day of Khmer New Year by going to the temple grounds and sing their traditional songs explaining the meaning of Khmer New Year and its history, passing on the tradition to everyone participating. This video show Khmer singing these traditional songs and and remembering once again why they celebrate Khmer New Year and reminding themselves of the history of the celebration.
Khmer Music
For your new year celebration
Khmer New Year Prayer
Founded on Theravada Buddhism
It is common for homes and offices to invite the monks to pray with them.
Khmer Invite Monks to Pray with them
Prayer at a Government Office
The Foundation of Khmer Culture
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Second Day of the Khmer New Year
Virak Wanabat
This day 2 of Cambodian Khmer New Year is meant for sharing and giving of alms. Khmer families reach out to the less fortunate, help the poor, give to house-hold helpers, homeless people, and low-income families and prostrate foreigners (okokok...just kidding to see if you're paying attention!)
In some families, they also offer gifts to other members and relatives. Given that almost all of them living and working in the city go home to their home village, they do bring all kinds of gifts for their relatives there.
They again go to the Wats (Pagodas) to attend dedication ceremonies for their ancestors and show both respect and veneration and make sure the Angel sees them. More games and dancing.
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Khmer New Year Tradition
The Building of the Hills in the Temple
For New Year, the Khmer go to the local or family Wat and on the grounds, mound up a big pointed stupa of sand. This represents the sakyamuni satya, the stupa at Tavatimsa, where Buddha's hair are known to be buried. This big stupa is surrounded by four smaller ones representing the stupas of Buddha's favorite disciples: Sariputta, Moggallana, Ananda, and Maha Kassapa.
The whole village can get involved in this and it is a real team builder in a culture where folks really do depend on their neighbors when times get tough. Some temples are really good at organizing activities during the Khmer New Year to make people gather in the pagoda and create a community spirit among them. It seems that for the younger Khmer this is a good place to meet future partners.
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Visit the Wats for Khmer New Year
The Khmers earn merit by visiting the wats
New Year is a time to party in almost every culture, out with the old and in with the new! Well for Khmer the fun is there. But so too are "the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods." Be here in Cambodia in April for an experience you will never forget! It is a great memory of what all families used to be. When you come, go to the wats or pagodas as the action for Khmer New Year takes place there. Some wats organize activities for people to join in and feel the community spirit at the same time pass on their long held traditions.
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Know the wats or pagodas if you plan to attend Khmer New Year. There are many traditions people follow and the wats is at the center of many of these especially the Khmer New Year when people gather in their wats and these traditions are passed on not only in worship but in songs, dances, plays and games.
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Visit these wats during Khmer New year
Khmer Celebrate with Families in the Wats
With dances, games and food
Many people in Phnom Penh go home to their home province so you see taxis and buses full to the hilt as people try to be with their families. Days before the Khmer New Year, many also go and clean up the family stupa or burial places of their ancestors. The first week of April seems to be busy for this activity. Yesterday, one of the consultants in the Ministry where my husband works just announced he got his ticket to go home and visit his parents grave. When asked when, he just casually said NOW. Nobody stops anyone from visiting the dead ancestors.
Those who are from Phnom Penh go to the oldest temple, Wat Phnom and around there, you will see them pouring powder on anyone as part of the revelry. Water is also splashed about mostly in the streets so be prepared to get wet as the younger folks have some fun. But do get out on the streets. It is a blast.
The Khmer also prepare special New Year dishes. Try their cake made from steamed rice mixed with beans or peas, grated coconut and coconut milk wrapped in banana leaves and slowly cooked. Or try the kalan made from sticky rice, beans and coconut milk cooked inside a bamboo cone.
The Traditional Khmer New Year Dish
Cooked in Banana Leaves
The traditional food cooked in bamboo
Kalan
Kalan for Khmer New Year
The Rice Cooked Inside
Khmer traditional games and dancing
Watch the Khmer celebrate their new year
Most Khmer go to the temple and there play the games which mostly include singing and dancing. Everyone has so much fun. It is even said that many of them get married afterwards as this often is a place for younger ones to meet ang get to know each other.
Khmer New Year Traditional Games
Try some of these Khmer games
During Khmer New Year, pagodas and street corners are often crowded with friends and families having fun as they share the good times after the rice harvest. Khmer New Year celebration is not complete without these traditional games. Khmer go to the temple and right in the grounds of the temple, they play these traditional games, dance traditional dances and sing traditional songs. Here are some of the games the Khmer traditionally play:
Chol Chhoung
A game played especially on the first evening of the Khmer New Year. Two groups of 10 or 20 stand in rows opposite each other. One group throws the "chhoung" to the other group. When it is caught, it will be immediately thrown back to the first group. If someone is hit by the "chhoung," the whole group must dance to get the "chhoung" back while the other group sings. A few beers and it becomes a bit spirited.
Chab Kon Kleng
This game imitates a hen as she protects her chicks from a crow. Adults typically play this game on the eve of the first day of New Year. Participants appoint a person with a strong build to play the hen leading many chicks. Another person is picked to be the crow. While both sides sing a song of bargaining, the crow tries to catch as many chicks as possible as they hide behind the hen. If the hen turns chicken, the black bird gets to crow...hahahaha (sorry). The traditional dancing that goes with this game as well as the antics of the players are so fascinating to those who have not seen this before especially when they play this in their traditional costumes in front of the temple.
Bos Angkunh
Angkunh is an inedible fruit seed which looks like the knee bone. Each of the two groups playing this game has its master angkuhn on the ground in front of them. With their own angkunh, each group tries to hit the master angkunh of the other group. Whichever group wins, it gets the chance to knock the knee of the losers with the angkunh. I've never seen this one but it sounds like a good aim is needed or it won't be just the knee that gets thumped.
Tres
This is played by throwing and catching a ball with one hand while trying to catch an increasing number of sticks with the other hand. Use chopsticks or pens. I tried it. What a mess. But people had so much fun watching.
Leak Kanseng
A game played by a group of children sitting in circle. Someone holding a "kanseng" (Cambodian towel) twisted into a round shape walks around the circle while singing a song. The person walking secretly tries to place the "kanseng" behind one of the children. If that chosen child realizes what is happening, he or she must pick up the "kanseng" and beat the person sitting next to him or her (with the cloth).
Bay Khon
Ten holes are dug in the shape of an oval into a board in the ground. The game is played with 42 small beads, stones or fruit seeds. At the start, five beads are put into each of the two holes located at the tip of the board. Four beads are placed in each of the remaining eight holes. The first player takes all the beads from any hole and drops them one by one in the other holes. He or she must repeat this process until they have dropped the last bead into a hole lying beside an empty one. Then they must take all the beads in the hole that follows the empty one. At this point, the second player begins to play. The game ends when all the holes are empty. The player with the greatest number of beads wins the game. It is so complicated and pointless it could become an Olympic sport!
Klah Klok
This is a gambling game with a mat and dice. The players put money on the object on the mat. Then, the dice is rolled. If you put money on the object that faces up on the dice, you double your money. If there are two of yours you triple, and so on until the Mississippi Queen sinks.
Khmer New Year Commentary
Dr. Jean-Michel Filippi wrote in the Phnom Penh Post that, "Khmer New Year is precisely the ceremony where all the components of Khmer civilization meet in a deeply original combination. The famous popular games and the various ceremonies of the 3 days have immemorial origins...
Khmer New Year Traditional Dance
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Khmer gather at the temple and there they dance their traditional dance. Everyone participates in the dance ad have fun.
Third Day of the Khmer New Year
Tngay Leang Saka
This is clean up the Buddha statues day. This is the Khmer appreciation for water as the symbol of life, needed by all living things and not always a sure thing. In small towns, the fire engines come out and give some of the stupas a real hose down with the occasional random blast at the teenagers. We witnessed this one year when we went to the province of Kratie. This picture shows the fire department of Kratie washing one of the oldest temples in Cambodia.
This bathing of the Buddha, the monks and their elders (Pithi Srang Preah) with perfumed water is the Khmer ritual of honoring these people. In most families, the Khmer wash their elders feet as they ask for pardon for all their shortcomings in the past year. Such action, the Khmer believe will bring them longevity, good luck, happiness and prosperity in life. By doing this, the Khmer want to acknowledge that their grandparents and parents are the fountain of best wishes and good advice and also that life is a continuity with generation following generation in a great endless loop.
Blessing for Khmer New Year
Monks are invited to homes and offices to pray for blessing
You can see the monks praying for Khmer New Year blessing. This is very important for the Khmer during the first day of the Khmer lunar year.
Khmer Asks for Blessing at Work
An Office New Year Celebration
Khmer celebrate New Year not only with their families but in their offices as well. They ask the monks to bless the office and pray with them for a good year. Here's a video of Khmer preparing and celebrating Khmer New Year.
Throwing of Petals at Khmer New Year Ceremony
Monks bless and throw petals signifying blessing for the New Year
Khmer New Year celebrations have started with prayers, feasting and dancing as offices celebrate before the staff go home to celebrate with their families.
Going to Cambodia for Khmer New Year?
Go to Angkor Wat
What better place than being in an ancient city like Angkor to celebrate Khmer New Year? Friends of ours just showed us a picture of the two of them enjoying their bottle of wine brought to Angkor all the way from Switzerland. What a fine idea, having a glass of your favourite wine in front of this ancient edifice.
More videos on the Khmer New Year
Watch the Khmer welcome the new year
The new year celebration engages every Khmer in Cambodia. In fact, the frenzy has already started. Preparations are already discussed in the family. Everyone is expected to be home to welcome the new year angel and go with the family to the temple. Home for many Khmer in Cambodia is in the villages so Phnom Penh is empty during the celebration. It is dead quiet. However, the roads that lead to the provinces are often jampacked and road accidents are at its highest during this time. The holiday last for at least, a week so don't plan any business here the month of the celebration. Some consultants could be here for a month sometimes and not accomplish anything.
The History of the Khmer New Year Celebration
The Khmer New Year Legend of Dhomabal Khumar
You will have noticed in the picture of the New Year Angel that she comes carrying a jeung bian (golden tray) with the king of the gods' head. The story goes that once there was a very smart boy called Dhomabal Khumar, born to a very wealthy family. Dhomabal was exceptional in that he spoke four languages including the language of the birds and read at 7 years of age the ancient texts and canonical scriptures that monks study.
He was clever but he was more than that. He was very kind so the village people loved him. Because he loves to speak to the birds, his father built him a beautiful temple close to the river where the birds lived. There Dhomabal would speak to the birds. But then, the king of the gods, KabilMohaProm, became jealous of Dhomabal and issued a challenge. He told Dhomabal that if he could not answer the questions he posed to him, he would cut his head off. But, if he could answer it, KabilMohaProm will cut off his own head. The questions:Where do you find happiness in the morning? in the Noontime? And, in the evening?
As Dhomabal did not know the answer, he run away to the forest. Fearing for his life, he slumped into a tree where two eagles were perched in a conversation. Dhomabal heard them talking about the question on happiness to which they gave the answer. So Dhomabal learned the answers: in the morning, you find happiness in your face; midday, you find it in your body, and at night, your feet. Dhomabal went to the king of the gods and gave him the answer. Because it was correct, the king of the gods had his own head cut off. He then told his eldest daughter to put his head in a jeung pian and carrying this golden tray circle around the Sumeru mountain for 60 minutes and then bring his head to the Khimalay temple in heaven. His head cannot be thrown to the ground as this will cause fire, to the the sky as this will cause drought or to the ocean as this will dry up so the seven daughters have to take turns carrying the head. From then on, as the king of the gods cannot anymore bless his people at the start of the new year, he would send his seven daughters as his angels to bless the Khmer people. So, for the Khmer, to get the blessing for the new year, they follow the ritual of washing their face in the morning, their body in midday and their feet in the evening and they wait for the angel to come and bless them.
Here's a Khmer New Year Quick Quiz
An easy one on Cambodia's new year
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Joining in the celebration in the wats is so much fun. When you are in Phnom Penh, go to Wat Phnom and share the joy of the Khmer. Water will be poured over you or they'll smother you with powder. Join in. Just make sure you take the safety precautions. Place your money in a safety pouch as the place is so crowded or just leave your valuables in the hotel's safety deposit box.
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