Royal Ploughing Ceremony

The Royal plough Ceremony The Royal turn Ceremony is one of the most important annual royal tralatitious ceremonies, which is held at the open square of Veal Preah Merhu in front of the field of study Museum in Phnom Penh every year. This ceremony is deemed one of the marvelous blessings of the Cambodian people. all(prenominal) king has take this celebration since ancient times. According to the tradition, the Royal Plowing ceremony is keep to predict the upcoming orn, bean, slew, se said(prenominal), w haver, wine.It is also celebrated to deliver a blessing to farming and to pray to God for sufficient seasonal worker rainfall, which is essential to encouraging all of the Cambodian farmers to produce a eminent crop yield. This years Royal Plowing Day was celebrated on May 21st, presided over by His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Baromneath Norodom Sihamoni, king of the Kingdom of Cambodia. It was held in the Meru field (Viel Men), north of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. For this year, Keo Chanmony, a CPP Member of Parliament from Kampong Chhnang province, was appointed as Mehour, date Cambodian lawmaker, Say Chhum, acted as Sdech Meak.After finishing the symbolic plowing and throwing seeds of a portion of the field, a pair of sacred oxen were led to eat rice, corn, beans, sesame, grass, water and alcohol, which had been prepared on trays. It was seen that the sacred oxen ate corn, beans, and grass but shunned rice grain. The oxens choice of corn, beans, and grass led the Royal Palaces chief astrologer Kang Keng to oblige that this years corn and beans harvests go forth be bountiful.However, he warned that the alimentation of grass signaled that Cambodias livestock will suffer from some epidemic diseases. Any way, the astrologer did not spell out to the crowd what it meant for the rice yield, sparking concern among superstitious farmers. I am very worried that we will not have a good paddy harvest, farmer Ros Makara, 52, told alpha foetoprotei n after the ceremony, but I will try my best to break rice. I dont totally rely on the prediction. Ok Men, 46, from Prey Veng province, said she was worried about her cows. I have to be careful in taking care of and preventing my cows from contracting diseases, she said. some other corn and bean farmer from Kandal province, Chhit Sorphea, said the prediction made him self-confident of a good harvest, and he would expand his planting. After the rite, the participants could enjoy the army 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 an(prenominal) media coverage of the Royal Plowing Ceremony this year. In countrys broadcasting such as national TV which transferred to all Cambodias TV and radio, Koh Samtepheap newspaper, DAP news, many website on the internet l ike 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 source by different style of each.