Moon Worship Ceremony within the framework of the Ooc Om Boc Festival

Moon Worshiping Ceremony of Khmer people in the South at Kh'Leang Pagoda, Soc Trang ward, Can Tho city.

This year's Moon Worshiping Ceremony, part of the series of events of the Ooc Om Boc Festival - Ngo Boat Racing in Can Tho City in 2025, contributes to making the festival atmosphere more jubilant and bustling, creating cultural diversity of the festival.

In recent times, the work of preserving and promoting cultural heritage has always received attention and direction from the city, in order to contribute to preserving and promoting intangible cultural values and introducing them to people and tourists inside and outside the city.

The good customs, practices and traditional rituals of the Khmer people, especially in the Ooc Om Boc Festival - Ngo Boat Racing, and the Moon Worshiping Ceremony are among the main activities attracting tourists to Can Tho city.

People pound green rice to prepare for the ritual of feeding flat green rice.

According to Khmer beliefs, the Moon Worshiping Ceremony is to thank the moon god for protecting the crops during the year, bringing favorable weather and wind, helping the crops to be bountiful.

Besides, the Moon Worshiping Ceremony is a traditional custom that contributes to raising awareness in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage values of the Khmer people, meeting the needs of enjoying spiritual culture for the people in the period of integration and development.

Thereby, it also shows the attention of the Party and State in implementing ethnic policies, promoting the potential and strengths of ethnic minorities in the city in conjunction with the policy of economic , cultural and social security development.

At the same time, create unique cultural products to serve tourism development in the direction of regional and local linkages, while also implementing the goal of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values of ethnic minority communities, contributing to building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity.

VAN UT

Source: https://nhandan.vn/le-cung-trang-trong-khuon-kho-le-hoi-ooc-om-boc-dua-ghe-ngo-thanh-pho-can-tho-nam-2025-post920586.html