(pounded rice prepared by Dry-frying grains of paddy rice then pounding Them to flatten the grains and remove the husks) Traditionally, the people living throughout Cambodia always hold a ceremony to float illuminated floats during the night when the Lenten period ends, namely, on the full moon day in the lunar month of Aksoch every year, but in the royal capital of Phnom Penh, the king always hold this ceremony together with boat race, salutation to the moon and Ambok eating which is included in the Tvea Tuosmeas ceremonies of the state, that is, on the l4th.-lSth. days of the waxing moon and on the lst. day of the waning moon in the lunar month of Kadoek every year. Each traditional festival celebrated in the country always has reasons related to each story. In particular, the ceremony to float the illuminated floats. salute the moon and to eat Ambok is also related to an ancient story as follows: The Story About the Illuminated Floats Once upon a time, there were a pair of white male and female crows making a nest to lay eggs on a tree growing at a seaside. The white female crow laid five eggs. One day. there was a storm blowing the nest and the eggs into the moving water. In the evening when the male and the female crows came back from looking for food, they noticed that their nest and eggs had disappeared and an" they had seen the messy broken branches of the tree. they understood that such a disaster was caused by a storm. But. the white male and female crows still thought of many things and they were eventually saddened to death and they were later born as Preah Indra in heaven. Let's talk about the five crow eggs that fell into the water. They were carried away by the water current and finally fell into the hands of a hen, the Naga king, a tortoise, a cow and a tiger that picked them up and take care of them at their respective places. When the hatching time arrived, those five eggs hatched out into five baby boys. Seeing such a marvelous event, the five animals took good care of the five boys carefully. When the five baby boys grew up, each of them thought: "I am a human and why are my parents animals?" After thinking things over, they said goodbye to their adopted parents to go to study different kinds of arts and to do good deeds to build state of being a Buddha. The five animals that were the guardians had the same wish for their adopted sons: "When you attain Buddhahood, we would like you to link our names with yours!" This is the reason why, in our fortunate time, there are five Buddhas with the following names: Kakontho (chicken), Kaoneakeakmono (naga), Kasapao (tortoise), Kotamao (cow) and Serei Anneteyo (tiger) who had attained enlightenment successively and linked the names of the five animals with their names according to their adopted parents' wish. After leaving the places of their adopted parents, the five men gathered together at a place and after discussing with one another, they realized that they had the same ideas and intention, so they agreed to be brothers to share sorrows and happiness together. One day, when the five men were talking about their natural parents, Preah Indra and his wife, who were the five men's natural parents, transformed themselves into male and female white CIOWS and flew to perch on a branch of a tree near that place and told the five men that they were really their natural parents. The five men knelt down to Salute the two people and expressed their regret for not serving their parents because the two white crows did not allow them to do that and they (the two white crows) only said: "If you really miss us and want to offer something to us, you just draw a cross on all the things you want to offer us and dedicate them to us, we will then receive them." After uttering the last words, the two white crows vanished into thin air. The five young men were ordained as hennits in the forest and did a lot of good deeds and drew a cross on all the offerings and then floated them down the current to worship the male and female white crows until it has now become a tradition. But, some people said that the reason why they held the ceremony to float these illuminated floats was to worship the Buddha 's footprints and Preah Changkom Keo enshrined in the Naga world. In conclusion, though the Buddhist priests said that this ceremony is held to worship the Buddha's footprints or Preah Chang/tom Keo or both the male and female white crows or Preah Cholamony Chedei, it has good reasons for the Buddhist religion. The scriptures called Rananak Sangkroh, Satra K 'ek $0 or the scriptures entitled Puthvong did not recommend what to do. Salutation to the moon and eating Ambak When the Buddha was born as a rabbit, on Every full moon day, he always observed moral precepts by fitting up his life in order to attain Buddhahood. On one full moon day, Preah Indra transformed himself into and old Brahman and came to beg his meat as food. The bodhisattva was willing to sacrifice his life to give his flesh to the old Brahman, but the old Brahman said that he had observed moral precepts for a long time. so he could not kill animals. Then, the rabbit told the Brahman to make a fire and then he jumped into the fire so that the old Brahman could eat him. But before jumping into the fire. the rabbit wished that his portrait be marked on the moon until the end of the world due to his good deeds. Based on this story, we can see the picture of a rabbit on the moon until today. Later on, in order to recall the birth of the bodhisattva rabbit, the people hold a festival called "Salutation to the moon - eating Ambok" which, in fact, means to salute the portrait of bodhisattva by offering food liked by rabbits such as banana, Ambok, sweet potatoes, coconut, taro, etc. The peOple always celebrate the ceremony to salute the moon and to eat Ambok on the full moon day in the lunar month of Kadoek because it is the end of the rainy season and it is also the season abundant in banana, Ambok, sugarcane, taro and sweet potatoes.
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