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Attractions: Angkor is located in Siem Reap province, about 240 kilometers away from the capital Phnom Penh. It is a symbol of the Cambodian nation and is known as one of the four wonders of the East. The existing monuments of Angkor Wat mainly include Angkor Wat (the Great Angkor Wat) and Angkor Wat (the Little Angkor Wat). Angkor was the capital of Cambodia from the 9th century to15th century. Angkor was founded in 802 AD and completed in 120 1 year, which lasted for 400 years. 143 1 After the Siamese army invaded in, Angkor was severely damaged and the dynasty was forced to move its capital to Phnom Penh. Since then, Angkor was abandoned and gradually submerged in the jungle. Until the 1960s, a French naturalist named henri mouhot discovered the Angkor Monument. There are more than 600 Angkor monuments, which are distributed in forests with an area of 45 square kilometers. The Great Angkor Wat and the Small Angkor Wat are its main components, among which there are many exquisite pagodas and numerous stone carvings, which are very spectacular. These pagodas are all built with huge stones, some of which weigh more than 8 tons. The stupa is carved with statues of various shapes, some of which are as high as several meters, lifelike and lifelike. 1992, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee listed the entire Angkor site as a world cultural heritage.

Cambodian custom

Fashion etiquette

Being located in the tropics, Cambodian people's clothes are very thin. Their national casual wear is that men wear straight-necked and multi-buttoned tops, and they don't wear tops when the weather is hot, but only "sarong" or "Mountain Park". "Sarong" is made of several feet of cloth, with various beautiful patterns sewn on both sides and tied around the waist, which looks like a skirt. "Shanpu" is a long piece of cloth, which goes from the waist down to the calf without sewing, and then passes through the crotch, tied tightly around the waist at the back, and the rest sticks out like a fish tail. Women's casual shirts are mostly silk short-sleeved round neck double-breasted shirts, and the lower body also wears "sarong" or "Mountain Park". Usually, they have to wrap a long cloth towel with a beautiful pattern around their waist.

Etiquette and manners

Cambodians think that the left hand is unclean and it is impolite to hold things or food with it. They also believe that the head is a sacred part of human beings, and others can't touch their own heads or children's heads casually. In some dances in Cambodia, gestures are often used to express specific meanings, such as "victory" with five fingers together and straight; Five fingers clenched into a fist to express "dissatisfaction" and "anger"; Four fingers together, thumb bent to the palm, indicating "surprise" and "sadness".

Meeting etiquette

Cambodians' surnames come first, and their first names come last. The names of nobles and civilians are different: nobles generally take their stepfathers' names, while civilians generally take their fathers' names as surnames; Noble names are very particular and often have profound meanings, while civilian names are mostly casually called and have no meaning. Cambodians usually don't call them by their surnames, but only by their first names, and put an article before their first names to show the difference of gender, age and seniority. For example, "call" means grandchild; "a" refers to children; "Big" means grandpa; "Ning" means girl; "Locke" means Mr. or something. Namaste is the most common meeting etiquette in Cambodia. When saluting, you should master the height of the palm tip according to the object, such as women to their parents, grandchildren to grandparents, students to teachers, and should raise the folded palm tip to the eyebrows; When government officials salute their superiors, they should raise them to their lips; When people of equal status salute, they should raise them to the tip of their noses. In rural areas, people only do ten rites; In the city, there are people who shake hands now.

dining etiquette

Cambodians live on rice. Because I believe in Buddhism and avoid killing animals, I don't eat much animal meat, but I prefer vegetarian dishes. However, on holidays, there are still fish and meat on their tables, and the dishes are also very rich. They prefer spicy, sweet and sour tastes. Pepper, onion, ginger and garlic are indispensable seasonings. They like Cantonese cuisine and Yunnan cuisine in our country. Drinking is more common, and fruit can also be drunk as wine. They have the habit of gargling after meals.

Wedding and funeral etiquette

Cambodia is located in the tropics, where men and women develop earlier. Generally, women are around 16 years old, and men get married around 20 years old. Before the wedding, both men and women should dress up beautifully. Accompanied by their parents and two witnesses, they should go to the relevant government departments for marriage registration and get a marriage certificate. According to local customs, all weddings are held in the woman's home. After marriage, the husband and his wife usually settle down together, which is somewhat similar to China's uxorilocal. Traditional weddings usually last for three days; The first day is "shed entry day", that is, the bride's family builds a groom's shed, a welcome shed and a drinking shed, so that the groom can live in the groom's shed before the wedding; The second day is "Zhengri", including ancestor worship ceremony and haircut ceremony. The third day is "Visiting the Church Day", and the ceremony is usually presided over by the elderly who are good at choosing "good days and auspicious days". Nowadays, weddings are usually simple, and urban residents and intellectual families often adopt modern wedding forms and hold various civilized weddings according to their own wishes.

In Cambodia, there are many festivals in a year, including the New Year Festival, the Water Delivery Festival, the Kite Festival, the fasting monk festival and the rainy season. Among them, the Water Delivery Festival is the largest and most solemn traditional festival in Cambodia, and it is celebrated in the border areas for three days every year1February when the Buddhist calendar expires. Water supply is to celebrate the end of the rainy season and the decline of the river. There are celestial burial, water burial, cremation and post-mortem burial in Cambodia, and now cremation is mainly used. After death, family members usually plant one or two crocodile flags in front of the house to show that their family members are dead. All relatives and friends wear white mourning clothes at the funeral, and the cremation time is usually arranged at night. Three days after cremation, later generations took the urn back and put it at home for sacrifice, or built an urn for burial in the temple.