KATHEN FESTIVAL

KATHEN FESTIVAL

Kathen is one of the most important festival in Cambodia. It is not a national ceremony, but it is a religious festival because we celebrate it in the pagoda. Usually we celebrate Kathen from the middle of October to the middle November. It lasts for a month. In fact, every pagoda must hold Kathen once a year. We can also celebrate. Kathen at home to collect the presents for the monks by visiting the monks to play in our houses, and sometime we invite one or two of the monks to preach for the people. In the next morning, we take the presents to the pagoda with guests. In the pagoda, for the night on the first day, we go to the pagoda to play and listen to the monk’s sermon and after that we sometime enjoy watching a play or a film in the pagoda. In the next morning, the people gather in the pagoda again and some people come from city or town to join this festival. It is really exciting during the Kathen.