Kathen Festival

Kathen is one of the most important festivals 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 of November. It lasts for a moth. In fact, every pagoda must hold kathen once a year. We can also celebrate kathen at home to collect he present for the monks by inviting the monks to pray in our houses, and sometimes we invite one or two monks to preach for the people. In the next morning, we take the present to the pagoda with guests. In the pagoda, for the nice on the first day, we go to the pagoda to pray and listen to the monk's sermon and after that we sometimes 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.