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Pchum Ben, also called 'Ancestors' Day', 'Celebration of the Dead' or 'Hungry Ghosts Festival', it is a 15-day Cambodian religious celebration, which culminates in celebrations on the fifteenth day of the tenth month in the Khmer calendar, denoting the finish of the Buddhist loaned. Phcum Ben begins on the 1^st day of waning moon in the long stretch of Putrobut until the fifteenth day before the new moon. First fourteen days of the celebration is known as a day of Kan Ban. The fifteenth and a day ago is called 'Pchum Ben' and is the beginning of a two day open occasion.

Pchum signifies 'to assemble' and Ben signifies 'a chunk of nourishment'. Pchum Ben, additionally called 'Brochum Ben'. This day is a period for Cambodians to offer their regards to their ancestors up to seven generations. The Pchum Ben celebration goes back to the Angkorian period when the general population of the zone took after animism. In the long run animism was supplanted by Buddhism as the noticeable religion in the district, anyway Buddhism and animism both respect their ancestors, so that old traditions of Pchum Ben proceeded and thrived under new religion. Ancestors thought that on the first day of Pchum Ben, the gates of hell are opened and the devil releases all the ghosts.

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