Preserve and promote the unique culture in Ok Om Bok Festival - Ngo boat racing
Every year, every mid-October of the lunar calendar is Khmer Soc Trang people in particular and Khmer people in the South in general are busy in the festival season of Ok Om Bok - Ngo Boat Race. This is one of the 3 biggest festivals of the Khmer people in the year together with the Choch Chnam Tet and Sene Dolta. Unique culture Soc Trang is the most populous province in the country with more than 400,000 people, accounting for nearly 31% of the provincial population. The Khmer here consider the Moon a god to regulate the crops of the year. Therefore, in the middle of October every lunar year, it is also the last days of the rainy season and is the time to harvest crops of all kinds, including sticky rice as the earliest, they use sticky rice to make nuggets together. other crops to make offerings to the Moon. Legend has it that the Ok Om Bok festival - Ngo boat racing of Khmer people has a long history. The elderly Khmer recounted that the festival was meant to ...