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Pchum Ben

The Cambodian fifteen-day festival of offerings for the spirits of the dead.

A pattern drawn for this page, not a picture of Pchum Ben.

Also: ancestors day

Pchum Ben is a Cambodian festival held in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, in which families go to the pagoda to offer rice, food and gifts to monks, to benefit their deceased relatives of seven generations. People rise before dawn to carry rice balls to the temple and throw them to the ground as offerings for hungry ghosts. The festival is solemn but also a family gathering, with many returning to their villages. The days have a public holiday of three days, and the ancestors are believed to wander the earth during the festival, hoping for remembrance.

Region: Southeast Asia

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