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Khmer New Year
Cambodia's new year in mid April, with temple visits, water and powder play and silk sampot wrapped skirts.
What is worn for Khmer New Year
Khmer New Year, called Choul Chnam Thmey, is kept for three days in mid April, usually 14 to 16 April, at the end of the harvest and the hot season. People clean their homes, make offerings at pagodas, build small sand hills in the temple yards and splash water and powder on one another. Women wear the sampot, the Cambodian wrapped skirt, in silk, with a blouse or a jacket and often a sash over one shoulder. The sampot may be of plain cloth or of hol, a patterned weave made by tying and dyeing the threads before weaving, which is the ikat technique, and it can be pulled between the legs and tucked at the back in a style called chang kben. The days vary by a day or two in the year.
Also part of it, and being written: Sampot (The Cambodian wrapped skirt, often in silk.).
Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Cambodian New Year" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.