Umbrellas, a sign of royalty throughout Southeast Asia and India, are featured in Xishuanbanna dances and festivals.
People of Xishuanbanna (The Twelve Thousand Fields) look more like Khmers and practise similar traditions like Khmers of today. Of
special significance is the Xishuanbanna water festival, coinciding
with Khmer, Thai and Lao new year celebrations on April 13-15 each year.
Yunnan (China Daily/ ANN) 11 April, 2013 -- As the Songkran Festival, or Water
Splashing Festival, approaches, more Chinese people have decided to
visit Xishuangbanna [where ancient Khmers are living], Yunnan province and Southeast Asian countries such
as Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia to enjoy the festival.
The festival is celebrated in these areas as the traditional New Year’s Day, and lasts three to seven days. In Thailand, people splash water at each other to express blessings, with a series of celebrations including beauty pageants, flower parades, food exhibitions and other performances. As a new popular tourist destination, Chiang Mai is also being added to the festival’s tourism routes, so that tourists can experience the differences between Southern and Northern Thailand.
According to Tuniu.com, a tourism website, the number of tourists who bought tours to Southeast Asian countries by March 31 had increased 44.22 percent year-on-year. Thailand will be a popular destination in April and some airlines are increasing their flights to some major cities. Read more about ancient Khmers living in southern China here.
The festival is celebrated in these areas as the traditional New Year’s Day, and lasts three to seven days. In Thailand, people splash water at each other to express blessings, with a series of celebrations including beauty pageants, flower parades, food exhibitions and other performances. As a new popular tourist destination, Chiang Mai is also being added to the festival’s tourism routes, so that tourists can experience the differences between Southern and Northern Thailand.
According to Tuniu.com, a tourism website, the number of tourists who bought tours to Southeast Asian countries by March 31 had increased 44.22 percent year-on-year. Thailand will be a popular destination in April and some airlines are increasing their flights to some major cities. Read more about ancient Khmers living in southern China here.
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Siem and Lao copied Khmer traditions, including Khmer New Year
Khmers, in turn copied but midified s little bit from India.
The countries that celebrate the New Year of April 13, 14, and 15, in addition to Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and India are Burma, Sri Langka, Nepal, Buhtan, Indonesia ( part of ), Malaysia ( part of ), Brunei and Tibet.
Suor Sdey Chnam Thmey !!!
These people look and dress very similar to Khmers. They have the same new year celebration with games and water play like Khmers too.
During the Angkorian period, there were reports that Chinese king asked Khmer king to send an elephant trainer to help him or his army train the elephants. The Khmers king sent one family, about 10 people there. Later on, a Chinese emissary visited Angkor and like Cambodian "Noum Banhckok" - the Cambodian vermicelli soup. He told the Chinese king about it and someone gave him that noodle soup to the Chinese king. The king really likes it and asked his Chinese cook to cook Noum Banhchok for him, but the Chinese cook can't cook like the Khmer cook, so the Chinese king asked the Khmer king to send a Khmer cook to him. The Khmer king sent another family - about 10 people also to cook for him.
So the people that we see here could be the descendants of the Khmer elephant trainers and the Khmer cook sent by the Ankorian king to the court of Chinese king in around the 13th century. In fact some of them claimed to be the descendants of the Khmers and some even can speak a few words of Khmers when the Khmer researchers visited them a few years ago.
Important thing, that the Chinese Emperor also sent many Chinese soldiers to the Khmer Kingdom during the reign of the great Khmer King Jayavarman the VII to support the Khmer Military force in fighting again their enemies from Champa.
We have all documents to prove, that the Chinese and the Khmer soldiers went hand by hand to the war to protect our country again the foreigner invade "Cham". This document exist until today and it can be studied on the wall of the Prasat Angkor Thom "Bayon", the Royal City or Palace of our former Khmer Empire.
The “Bayon Tempel” was in old time the Royal Administration City. The Khmer soldier located in many places around the country (The Royal cavalry and Royal Elephant regiments, located in that time in today Thailand and the Royal Khmer Marine stationed in Mekong Delta) were under our former King. The King was the same time not just the, but also the higher Military Command for our Royal Military Forces.
Many young generation of the today Chinese in Cambodia are the descent of the former Chinese soldiers, who late married with the Khmer women and have children.
This shows, that the Chinese and the Khmer were friend since more than 1000 years and they helped each other duringt the good and also the bad time.
China loves Cambodia so much, they supported the khmer rouge murderous thugs to slaughter over a million Cambodians and other ethnic people, ¼ of Cambodia’s population perished in the genocide. Feeling unsatisfied that it was not enough, China continued providing supports to the khmer rouge in their attempts to destabilize Cambodia which caused more suffering for the people of Cambodia. Yet for some unknown reasons, Cambodians continued to revere China, the stupidity of it all.
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