Offering rites of the Khơ-me people
Other names: Khmer, Cur, Cul, Cu, Việt gốc Miên, Krôm
Culture and belief A record of custom.
- Language family
- Mon-Khmer
- Population
- 1,319,652 (2019)
The rites
- Cúng hạ thủy tàu thuyền (offering at the launching of a boat)When launching a newly built boat, when beginning the fishing season; in some places the boat is offered to before every sea trip and on the last day of the year
- Sen Đôn Ta ceremony of the Khmer peopleThe last three days of the eighth lunar month and the beginning of the ninth lunar month; in the past the festival season lasted half a month
- Tết Chôl Chnăm Thmây of the Khmer peopleThree days in mid-April of the solar calendar, calculated according to the Khmer calendar
- Ok Om Bok moon offering ceremony of the Khmer peopleNight of the full moon of the tenth lunar month
- Lễ cúng Ông Tà (ceremony to worship Ông Tà) (Đom Lơng Néak Tà) of the Khmer peopleOne day chosen by each phum sóc (hamlet) within the third, fourth, or fifth lunar month, at the start of the rainy season