Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Phnom Penh Youth 2009


Khmer is a kingdom of wonder. We agree that Khmer people or people who have Khmer's blood is smart, hard working. To day, Cambodia has a Capital city call Phnom Penh where collection by modern technology, variety style of youth. The inflowing of other culture, Khmer youth start change their style of wearing, behavior, speech, and communicate. In this case, many problem occurred which related to the develop of our culture. Seam's nation have copied Khmer traditional and culture, and then they try to edit it to be their own. after that they transfer it to Cambodia Youth by TV, Magazine and Electronic machine capture in Thai Culture. On every evening, Many girl and boy go to riverside's park.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Khmer Wedding Today!


Last 13th of March 2009, it was my cousin’s wedding day. We celebrated it follows by Khmer Traditional Culture. The ceremony had started since 12th evening until 13th. Almost the whole day, we were so busy to do many tasks, as I also well prepared about few months ago for the preparation. Khmer wedding day is chosen according to the code of fore-father which involve to the history of Khmer and the beliefs to the ancestors, the god, or the guardian’s spirits. Khmer Wedding is mixed by the strong belief mixed up for both Buddhism and Brahmanism.
The picture on the left hand is one among many activities during wedding day. This time, the groom and bride is handing-feed to their parent as their parent did when they was a baby. It means that the son and daughter that they would always be grateful to their parent who raised them since they were a baby until they adult and get marry. During this, the parent get three kind of food from the groom and bride like Coconut’s water mean by The Sweetest Water in the World, The Sugar mean to The Sweetest Soil in the World.