Royal Ploughing Ceremony

Royal Ploughing Ceremony

Cambodia celebrated the Royal Ploughing Ceremony, with sacred oxen eating 95 percent of the rice, corn and soybean offerings.

Secred oxen ate 95 percent of the rice, Corn, and soybean offerings during Monday's royal plughing ceremony in Kampong Thom province, suggesting that these crops will be high in the upcoming planting season.

King Sihamoni presided over the ceremony on Monday to pray for a good harvest. Seven crops and substances were displayed on bowls: rice, corn, water, alcohol, sesame, and beams. According to tradition, the crop that the sacred oxen eats the most is prophesied to have the highest harvest.

The Royal Ploughing Ceremony was celebrated after a three-years hiatus due to the pandemic. The ceremony is an ancient tradition that marks the beginning of the rice-planing season in Cambodia.

The ceremony was also attended by senoir government officials, religious leaders, and farmers. The king's representives.