Cambodia royal oxen eat rice and green beans during the annual royal ploughing ceremony in front of the golden-spired palace in Phnom Penh May 16, 2006. Cambodia's sacred oxen have forecast a bountiful harvest but thin rains, leading farmers to call on the government to build more irrigation systems and canals. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea Sacred Cambodian cows predict bountiful harvest
Tue May 16, 2006
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's sacred oxen have forecast a bountiful harvest but thin rains, leading farmers to call on the government to build more irrigation systems and canals.
At the annual royal ploughing ceremony in front of Phnom Penh's golden-spired palace, the cows ate lots of rice, beans and corn, suggesting "there will be plenty of crops", court astrologer Kang Ken told the crowds on Tuesday.
However, the beasts, who were also presented with golden bowls of water and wine, refused to drink any water, meaning the war-scarred Southeast Asian nation could suffer a year of drought.
"If the rains are going to be poor, we are going to have to have irrigation as a back-up," said 31-year-old farmer Bun Nak, who had travelled to the city to witness the ancient ceremony, which was overseen by King Norodom Sihamoni.
Last year, the cows got it spot on with their prediction of an abundant rice harvest. Cambodia produced more than 6 million tonnes of rice for the first time ever.
At the annual royal ploughing ceremony in front of Phnom Penh's golden-spired palace, the cows ate lots of rice, beans and corn, suggesting "there will be plenty of crops", court astrologer Kang Ken told the crowds on Tuesday.
However, the beasts, who were also presented with golden bowls of water and wine, refused to drink any water, meaning the war-scarred Southeast Asian nation could suffer a year of drought.
"If the rains are going to be poor, we are going to have to have irrigation as a back-up," said 31-year-old farmer Bun Nak, who had travelled to the city to witness the ancient ceremony, which was overseen by King Norodom Sihamoni.
Last year, the cows got it spot on with their prediction of an abundant rice harvest. Cambodia produced more than 6 million tonnes of rice for the first time ever.
6 comments:
Come On! Wake up Khmer people, if they keep distroy the forest, How do you expect to have rain for the crops. Stop believe in those HOLY cows. If you believe that they are Holy cows, you better not kill and eat their meat, they will huanted YOU! STOP DISTROY THE RAINFOREST!
We never see rainforest, we cut only logs and we rich.
Thoughtless comments should be avoided. I do not think that the great majority of the Cambodians draw conclusions based on what the oxen chose to eat during the royal ploughing ceremony. Cambodia didn't ever have that ceremony for nearly 2 decades. It was just revived again in 1993 by Sihanouk. The ceremony is a part of the Cambodian monarchy. If the Cambodia has no monarchy, then the royal ploughing ceremony would be gone as well.
Superstition -- what nation on this planet earth does not have it. In the United States, there are supertitions such as Friday the 13th, the 13th Floor, the numeral 666, and so on. Even the Biblical prediction does not even come true. The Year 2000 was supposed to be a big one for the whole world, but nothing out of ordinary happened.
Scientific reasoning demands that one tests out the hypothesis in order to verify the conclusion. Thus those who object the loudest should list out all the royal oxen's predictions through the decades and conclude from them.
Cambodia's royal ploughing ceremony is a part of the Khmer Monarchal ritual and tradition. It is an expression and a symbol of a very abstract idea. Unless those blind individuals are able to see that idea, then it is not acceptable to disrespect it.
Let those so-called modern people continue to base their conclusions deductively and inductively. Let them be free from illogical fallacies and propagandas that continue to block from seeing the light of wisdom. Hahahah.
If the holy cow refused to drink the water and what you think that I should drink those water! Now everybody in the world know the real quality of Cambodian drink water! The water are so dirty and no animals would want to drink it but yet million and million of Cambodian people have no other choice except to use it! There is a shortage of fresh clean water everywhere in Cambodia. In Cambodia nowaday it takes an animal mentality to understand a basic need like water! Under AH HUN SEN regime, Cambodian people are being reduced to the point that even animals can think for them! This is sick mentality!
is it funny? hA ha too
Hahaha. I think you have illustrated very well that Hun Sen the drama queen should go and go now even in his grass skirt. Hahhaha.
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