Today is Royal Ploughing Day.
The ceremony held at the Royal Palace marks the start of the raining season ie rice planting season.
Two of the King’s cows (I wonder how many he has and if he has names for them) are hitched to a wooden plough and then plough around the ceremonial field three times. For their hard yakka, they are then offered selected foods on seven silver trays – rice, corn, beans, sesame seeds, grass, water and rice wine.
Fortune-tellers then predict the outcome of this year’s harvest according to the cows’ appetites. Cereals are good. Water means there will be plenty of rain. Herbs mean disease and the worst can be expected if they drink alcohol.
Today, they ate mostly corn… they King smiled broadly and there was much rejoicing.
Everyone is keen to hear some good news (particularly with current police warnings about dog-nappings supplementing the Khmer diet). But what about Good News?
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