Ancient Khmer Poem: A Colour Each Day for Khmer Culture

Red is for Sunday,

Orange truly looks like a beautiful moon (Monday),

Purple is reserved for Tuesday,

Wednesday is the green of the lieb plant.

Thrusday is the yellowish green of the leaves of a banana palm,

Happy Friday is blue and must be tidy,

Saturday is the color of reipe ping (a type of plum)

and dressing is according to ages!

 

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14 Responses
  1. shydub says:

    cute nila para silang mga dolls na pinatayo hehehe, parepareho din mga muha nila. visiting here from my blogroll sis

  2. *Our Wish* says:

    Neat picture! Happy WW!

  3. Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Happy WW!!!

    Best,
    Li
    @lalicenciada
    @herdeepthoughts

  4. Julie says:

    Is that their traditional costume?! so lovely! :) )

  5. Yoshi says:

    Very insightful and great interpretation!

  6. Miss Becky says:

    I really like this photo very much.  the colors are fantastic, and it’s just a great shot.  thanks for stopping by my blog, and have a great WW!

  7. Joahna Vern says:

    Wow!! :) amazing. :) color coding? hehe. cute. :)

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  8. Oh, this is very interesting.  I love anything to do with colors.

  9. That’s very interesting.  Beautiful colors and costume.

  10. Cool Picture!  Very colorful days, they look lovely!
    Happy WW!

  11. Beautifully rich colors.

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  12. it’s always interesting to get a glimpse of different cultures of other countries.

  13. tracy says:

    i did not know that khmer have colors for the days of the week too. (we do here in thailand, although the colors are a little different). very interesting. thanks for sharing!

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