* The rice fields are green, accompanied by the cries of crickets as the weather turns cloudy, the sky begins to rain, a villager ploughing with his buffalo next to a family with their daughter playing in the mud beside her parents who are thin, or space, the rice seeds. The mother picked up her daughter, wiped her daughter's face with a kroma (Khmer scarf), and answered her neighbor question that next year she and her husband would go and find work in Phnom Penh to save money to fix their house and take care of their mother who has sick elderly. Her husband added, "Uncle, if we are not here, help plant rice on my farm and we will share half the rice." Uncle nodded and told them to rest as it was about to rain. The couple picked up their daughter, saying goodbye to their neighbor's uncle.

* Phalla, a 5-year-old girl, was sent by her parents to live with her grandmother in her hometown as they had to go to work in the city to support her and her elderly grandmother. In her family there are only four members, whose father works as a construction worker near a garment factory where her mother works. She hugged her grandmother, weeping tears, watching her parents take a bus taxi into town. Every month, her parents send food, materials and money to her grandmother. they send by a bus taxi, which always travels to their village. Father's Phalla looked at his daughter's picture with a lovely smile and said she was as beautiful as her mother. Then he fell asleep next to his wife on an old Khmer carpet. All compensators are resting in the building they work because they don't have enough money to rent a house.

* Phalla had already prepared dinner for her grandmother. In the evening, she went to the lake to catch fish and picked water lilies with other children in the village. So she cooked Mochu water lily soup for dinner. Phalla added oil to the lamp, and she called her grandmother to come to dinner while her grandmother took a bath near the pump well in front of the house. Her dog, named Khmao, (black) tried to sniff at her feet while he was hungry, causing her to pull fish out of the soup for him to eat. Suddenly her grandmother appears and says, "It's not good to give dog food before the owner eats" Phalla listens to her grandmother's advice, then chase Khmao go away and she said, wait a minute, then you will eat after we finish eating. At bedtime, she went to massage her grandmother's leg and then she went to tie a mosquito net near the window, her house a kind of traditional house ( Kongdam house style).

* The sound of thunder and heavy rain in the early morning as the village chief ran towards Phalla's house, said her parents died in the collapse of the building, in which they lived because of the loose pillar. After hearing the news, she felt very painful and cried loudly while shouting called her parents' names, her grandmother passed out and was taken care of by the village chief. Her parents' melting bone has already dissolved in one of the pagodas near Phnom Penh. Phalla and her grandmother wore white funeral costumes with bows in front of monks without relatives, except for the village chief, who brought them both to the city to receive the bones of her parents and take charity and government allowances. The construction contractor and the owner of the building have fled and the police are chasing them because the construction does not fits the standards set by the government. And this accident left many workers dead. After the incident, Phalla was sent by her grandmother to live with an elderly dancer grandmother who was a palace dancer and had just retired to live with her daughter. But her daughter moved abroad after the wedding, so she needed a girl nearby to take care of her and she would raise her like her grandchildren. Because the elderly grandmother is the friend of Phalla's grandmother, she agreed to take care of Phalla, and Phalla's grandmother became a nun in a pagoda in her hometown. The money her grandmother received was saved when her grandchildren grew up.

* Phalla has been living with her dancing grandmother for a year and she teaches her to exercise every morning at four or five in the morning by rubbing the dew off the leaves and putting it on her fingers. and she needs to pull her fingers back until her finger becomes soft and the fingertips can reach the wrists. She should do this exercise every day and bend her waist, arms, and legs followed by a dance exercise for about an hour or two hours per day. In the evening, before going to bed, she has to sit next to her dancer grandmother, listen to Dhamma and Khmer poetry related to the rights of men and women and other fairy tales that help her study with the literature. The dancing grandmother, seeing that Phalla was a talented dancer, she decided to open a dance class that taught children in the village who wanted to dance and could dance in groups with Phalla. Phalla, now she is in 5th grade and after leaving school she has to practice dancing with the children near her dancing grandmother's house, and she dances with all kinds of Khmer dances.

* The dancing grandmother is very strict if she dances the same rhythm of mistakes over and over and will be beaten, and for newcomers, they need to learn how to bend their bodies and legs made them very painful when they premiered practice before getting used to these exercises. Not only practice dancing, but they also need to acquire general knowledge related to arts and culture. The dancing grandmother will test their knowledge every month, if they fail, they will have memorize the lesson and record 1000 copies each. The basic lesson they always memorize that each hand movements of Khmer dance has a meaning that takes on a natural pattern. From top to bottom, left to right, grow buds, leaves, flowers, fruits, ripe fruits and fallen fruits. And the colors of Monday of the day are dark yellow, Tuesday is purple, Wednesday is light green, Thursday is green, Friday is blue, and Saturday is black, tamarind color, Sunday is red. And how to Salutation, etc. There are five ways. 1. Raise Hands saluted Chest height for greetings of the same age or between friends. 2. Raise the hand saluted near the height of the mouth for an older greeting, a higher status or a boss. 3. Raise hands saluted of greeting from the hand to the tip of the nose to greet parents, grandparents, teachers. 4. Raise hands saluted to the tip of eyebrows to greeting monks, kings, or sacred objects. 5. Raise your hand Salutation Height of the eyebrows to greeting the deity Indra, Brahma or pray.

* Phalla's dance group is made up of 12 members, consisting of 6 boys and 6 girls, and each member has similar dance skills, with Phalla as the leader of the group. another children's dancer who learns the basic dance is led by them as senior dancers. The dancer grandmother called her group to meet she told them that her friend, who owned a hotel, invited them to perform Blessing dances and folk dance (Cambodian Coconut Dance ) for her hotel which have international guests, French diplomats. Blessings dance (Robam Choun Por (Blessing Dance) is traditionally performed at the beginning of a ceremony to greet, bless, and offer good wishes to the audience. Khmer, as a nation, present their identity with pleasant, politeness, and honesty and prefer to develop friendship and building peace. Guests and relatives are welcomed with cordial hospitality. The Blessing Dance is a masterpiece of Her Majesty the Queen Sisowath Kosamak Nearyrath who created this dance to reflect the pleasant character of Khmer nation. ) (Cambodian Coconut Dance a dance performance involving coconuts with male and female dancers. The men wear a yellow shirt and a dark red "Changkibin". The women wear a button-down shirt and a green silk "Chong Kben". The dance originated around 1960 in the district of Romeas Haek in the province of Svay Rieng.)

* so the day after tomorrow has a car to receive their team at the hotel. The phalla dance group were very happy and nervous as it was their first time on stage. The dancing grandmother told more about the allowance sponsor and the food is being prepared by the hotel, and she told them not to forget to report the news to their parents. As for the dance costumes, she hired her old art school, which she worked for, to send her dance costumes for them tomorrow. The Phalla dance group said goodbye to them and returned home with Phalla, she cleaned up the dance class, and after cleaning she went to the kitchen to cook with a smile on her face and sang a hymn with praise to the stars and she sang a very soft voice as she looked out the kitchen window to see the starry moon accompanied by many stars. (The meaning of Song mhaori ) phrase one, To the moon are soft cold that show beautiful, phrase two, looks at the stars accompanied by the moon that have a lot of stars from the crowd becomes guardian, phrase three, You are worth it as Alabaster, watch the sky as your moon shines across the sky. Phrase four, start east of the moon is the eastern star.)

* The day of the performance arrived, each of their members got scared and some even cried because they were too young. Phalla comforted the crying members by telling them to hang on and consider atmosphere around them as if they were dancing in dance class. The performance ended successfully with applause from the audience, especially as they also received a bouquet of flowers from the French diplomat, with Phalla as the group leader as the recipient. The program ended, the hotel owner asked the dancing grandmother if she had any requests from her. When the dancing grandmother heard this, she asked her friend to take the children to the art school, the national museum and the palace so that they could directly understand the lessons they had learned. The owner of the hotel also agreed after finishing lunch. Phalla's group were very happy to see firsthand what they had learned, and Phalla looked at Apsara's costume, hoping that when she grew up she could become an Apsara dancer like dancing grandma and becoming a famous celebrity, they took photos together while Phalla has beautiful dimpled smiles on her cheeks. On the other side of her limbs they were naughty and playful like monkeys so the dancing grandma blamed them for preparing good behavior but the hotel owner banned and laughed saying the kids always play like this, so don't be too strict.

* A few days later, Phalla brought the money to her grandmother and gave the food to the monk to pay homage to his deceased parents. She and her grandmother were sitting on the wooden bed under the guava psidium tree , her grandmother looking at her granddaughter, saying that if her parents were alive they would be so proud of her that made her cry and sleep on his grandmother's thighs. Suddenly the Archbishop asked her grandmother that he wanted Phalla's dance group to help him perform the robam trot and Chai yam for the pagoda flower festival next week. Due to the condition of the ancient pagoda, it is not possible to hire a dance group. Phalla's grandmother replied that she couldn't make the decision because it depended on the dancing grandmother. Phalla shook hands of her grandmother as she spoke to the Archbishop that she would be helped at the pagoda, and she told the dancing grandmother directly, maybe she allowed her group to play because she had said before that if the pagoda needed a dance group, she would help.

* The Archbishop thanked and presented Num Ansom (rice cake) and traditional Khmer cakes to take to the dancing grandmother. Phalla's grandmother told her granddaughter to come home because it was getting late, but Phalla didn't want to be away from her grandmother. Even though her grandmother wanted her granddaughter to be with her for a long time, she still told her granddaughter to hurry home, telling her to listen to Grandma dance and keep studying hard. Phalla, she raised her hand to goodbye her grandmother and was about to go home on her bicycle. When she was busy thinking about her grandmother, she forgot to look at the road, making it slippery on the cow dung and mud that dirty her clothes and her face. the children running nearby laugh at her. Phalla was so angry that she threw a cow dung in the mud to throw it chasing the naughty children running all over the field, but she couldn't catch them because they were running so fast, so she put it back her bike on the road and rode it forward.

* On the Day of the Flower Festival, Phalla's dance group dances Robam trot and Chai yam in front of the Gate Pagoda, with two men and women wearing personalized scarecrows dancing near them for the guests who have passed through the pagoda. ("Robam Trot" is becoming popular at the New Year festival to rid people and performs in an old format meant to ward off the bad luck of the previous year, usually performed before and during the Khmer New Year festival. It has been performed ever since ancient times in the Cambodian provinces of Siem Reap and Battambang. Trotting dancers dress in brightly colored costumes and go house to house collecting money and community offerings for the local temple. hand and sticks with bells attached to give rhythm to the dance. the dance has several characters including a hunter, oxen, a giant and a witch who attempted to kill a deer while Peacock tried to protect it.) Chai yam is the dance in which the drummer has a funny look. The dance must have a call and answer signal, there is applause (Chap pair of flat cymbals) and beat the Kong Camus. Dancers dressed in comic costumes will paint their faces, and the dance music features a Buddhist-related procession at various festivals, such as the rainy season, the flower festival, and the Kathina festival to make everyone happy.

* Sometimes a group of children see the scarecrows howling in fear, and some children have fun playing with these scarecrows. As for the archbishop of the pagoda, he was holding a metal bowl received with money from the philanthropists who attended the festival and from the philanthropists who walked crossed the pagoda with a generous heart. When they were happy, a bus of foreign tourists stopped near them and watched their dance, one of them taking photos and walking around the pagoda. Some charity people donate money for their festival in bags attached to the sticks that dance groups have tied for charity. Suddenly Phalla felt very angry and hurt when the group of foreigners teenagers and some of older said : "They are beggars and dancing beggars, and Cambodians have always been good at begging. Phalla ended the dance by wondering of her group. In her group, only she can hear and speak English.

* So she told the Khmer Music Band to play the song "Khmer Genealogy" and she sang loudly , while heartbreaking, as she wanted to underline the words that the band had insulted and about Khmer and Khmer dances without study Khmer culture before their speech analysis. Suddenly, the uncle, who was the tour guide, translated the meaning of the song with the same emotional pain as Phalla. ( Song: Khmer genealogy. Written by: Professor Nuon Kan (1934 - 2002) of the Royal University of Fine Arts Written on September 12, 1958. 1. Khmer people, remember that according to the national history of Khemara, they used to glorify the vast and prosperous Khmer territory, they always glorify our nation and consider it as the oldest nation. 2. Elegant and civilized civilization spread in all directions of the Far East, religion, art, sculpture, fine arts, study, music, philosophy, Buddhism, Khmer principles spread. 3. Cambodians, listen to the negotiated background that confirms that the Cambodian race is determined to work hard to promote the values ​​of our Cambodian nation to be glorified again according to the background. ) Foreigners felt embarrassed after hearing and understanding the meaning of song and dance from translator , they said sorry, made everyone smile and forgive them , everyone being dancing and made friendship together.

* Many years later, Phalla was 22, having graduated in Fine Arts from the Fine Arts School in Phnom Penh, and her tuition and living expenses were funded by a dancing grandmother and her grandmother who saved money for when she got older. It is like her dream that she becomes a master dancer at school and that she is invited to international dance performances in China, Japan, Korea, the United States and the main European countries to promote the Khmer dance and culture among the senior generations. As for her childhood dance group, they have changed careers and learned various skills to land the job they love. one of her close friends, she continues to be the successor of the dance teacher with the dancing grandmother. Phalla, she looked at the visa she had just received from the Chief Art Officer, with the due date set for next week. As she was about to take a bus back to her hometown to give information to her two grandmothers. A foreigner man was sitting next to her as she read a book on Khmer cultural art which was written in both Khmer and English. He asked her to read the book when he saw her finish reading and put it back in her bag. Phalla passed the book over with a smile, and she thought foreigner wanted to read Khmer cultural art books made her really happy.

* She looked at the view outside the bus window as the rain started to fall, the air started to cool, she felt very sleepy and fell asleep on the foreigner's shoulder, seeing her Shoulders tremble in the cool weather, he took off his jacket put on her body . When she woke up, she saw that a lot of people got out of the car and reached the place where they had to change buses from their station. For her, no need to change buses. Phalla tried to get off the bus to return the jacket to the foreigner , but he had already changed buses. She put his jacket and book back in her bag and bought cookies to send to children in her hometown and got back on her bus. Arriving at her dancing grandmother's house, neighbors uncle near the house, who was climbing a palm tree, selling palm juice, stirring sugar, greeted her while he was on top of a palm tree. She greeted him and told him when he came down , please come and get some cookies for his children from her. And she entered the house, her friend was surprised and very happy because she came back did not tell them. She greeted the dancing grandmother and handed her some of the money she had earned from the show, but she refused to take it because she didn't want to get anything from her, and she was already proud of her who can keep the Khmer culture continue to be alive. Phalla still requested the dancing grandmother to accept it , saying that the virtues that raised her cannot be fully appreciated, and that this was only a small encouragement compared to care her and educating her.

* Her friend also told the dancing grandmother to accept because it was Phalla's joy and it was because of her hard work. The dancing grandmother accept it and told the children to rest and prepare lunch. The neighbor uncle gave them the palm juice that his palm juice so delicious and sweet tasting. She invited him to lunch with them, and after they had eaten, she gave her friend a small present, cookies to the children and to the neighbor uncle. When everyone left, only her friend and the dancing grandmother, she also announced to the news that she was due to do a performance on board next week, because everyone was very happy and wished her success. The dancing grandmother gave her Buddhist necklace to wear and bless her to achieve safety and happiness in life. When the dancing grandmother fell asleep, she and her friend went to sit in the field in front of the house in the moonlight. Her friend take Tro ou to play (Tro ou) - two-string lower vertical violin with a coconut body, the face covered with calfskin or snakeskin; used in classical music) while playing this reminds them that their childhood is funny and their memories started to dance together.

* The next morning, she took her friend on a motorbike to the pagoda to meet her grandmother, who was praying. She walked over to her parents' stupa bowing and announced to them that she will be traveling very far. Then she returned to see her grandmother, who had finished praying. Her grandmother was very happy when she was told she was going to perform abroad. Phalla handed her grandmother money and clothes, saying that if one day she could perform on the big stage and her two grandmothers could see her perform directly, she didn't know how would be good. Her grandmother smiled and took her hand, gently rubbing her hair with love. Her grandmother told Phalla to pick up Malu's leaves and let her eat them with the Sla because she felt very sour in her mouth. (Malu is betel leaf is so much a part of our life that it is theirs on all important occasions. We use it in our prayers, in home remedies, betel leaf is very good for treating colds and the best way to use betel leaf to treat cold is to make kashayam with it.Any herbal extract used to treat disease is called kashayam and it can be very elaborate or very simple like this leaf kashayam betel.) ( Sla is kind of plant, the stems are round and straight, the fruit is bitter and it is chewed in combination with mlubiak as a deodorant. Sla mlou scarf wrapped in a large towel used in the wedding ceremony of a daughter with a son: Sisla Kanseng Sliced ​​coleslaw or coleslaw Young fruit peeled, cut into thin slices and dried. Pie Slaw (Fruit meat) A coleslaw with slices. Roasted sla Young fruit peeled and roasted to dry.)

* She went to pick some Malu leaves planted near the fence outside the pagoda and saw the boys took the catapult prepared to shoot the birds that were ripe on the Malu tree. When she saw like this , she was screaming to the boys didn't shoot, gave them advice and gave them candy to chase them to back home. As she got ready to go home, her grandmother handed her mangoes and grilled fish for dinner and it was also her favorite food. Phalla sat down and watched the children dance as she helped them straighten their backs and arms when they made a mistake. The girls were dancing robam neary cheap chour is beautiful like flowers on their hair, and their beauty like flowers was blooming all over the dance floor.

* Phalla arrived at France's international airport where a group of Cambodian artists were waiting to receive her, and they took her to her accommodation and met the Cambodian performers, singers and dance troupe she was to dance with tomorrow. Because she wanted to rehearse, Phalla just took a shower and changed her clothes then went downstairs to rehearse with a group of seniors, a French dance troupe, because of her gently and kindness, caused everyone like her too much. In particular, Phalla, she is fluent in several languages. The scene was beautifully followed by the guest of honor of the Ambassador representing the two countries, to attend the performance of the Cambodian art group. The first performance was given by a group of new generation Khmer singers who performed the songs of Mr. Si Somuth and Mrs. Ros Serey Kunthea, then the show of modern Khmer costumes designed by a Khmer student who graduated from well known design schools in France. And the last performance was a dance group that performed Robam Moni Mekhala to feature international guests. (Robam Moni Mekhala , sometimes known as Robam Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso is a traditional Cambodian dance. It is a rain dance that explores the Cambodian myth of thunder, lightning and rain associated with Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Most of the time this dance depicts the fight between Reamesor and Moni Mekhala where Reamesor (Ramasura / Parashurama) or Ream Eyso tries to grab Moni Mekhala's magic crystal ball and this fight creates a storm.)

* Everyone was fascinated by Phalla because she was dancing like an angel, and when they finished their performance , everyone applauded the Cambodian art group, with many well-known journalists taking their picture. There was also a live broadcast. The Ambassador of France presented a commemorative trophy to the Cambodian art group and Phalla was the representative to receive the commemorative trophy to bring it back to her homeland. After a successful performance, Phalla was interviewed by a reporter from a well-known company, who was very impressed with her dancing talent and said that she was such a beautiful flower.

* Phalla traveled to other countries as scheduled, before leaving, Khmer artists in each region warmly welcomed her and took her on tour to many famous places. Its artistic team has always succeeded in performing and promoting Cambodian culture more widely. The last country to perform was Korea, which unlike any other time had a Cambodian dance troupe in the area to perform a contemporary dance performance, then Phalla had to put on a solo apsara dance performance to guests. When she finished performance, the whole room was a bit quiet, then started to clap, which made Phalla very excited. When she received the bouquet of flowers and the commemorative trophy, she noticed that the Korean Culture and Art Ambassador was a foreigner on the bus, which surprised her too much. After a successful performance, all Cambodian artists were invited to a dinner at luxury hotel in Seoul, and the Korean Ambassador asked Phalla to dance with him, which he whispered Close to her ear, said that she danced very well and she was really lucky to see her again, Phalla looked at him with her face shyly. Before she returned to her countries, he told her that he would be going on a mission to Cambodia for a while, so he hoped that she would consider him a friend, then he reached out his hand to greet the friendship with Phalla. She shook his hand with a smile saying she was honored that the Ambassador had asked to be her friend.

* Phalla returned to the country with a commemorative trophy and took it to her art school. Back in her hometown, she has just knew that the dancing grandmother has been hospitalized with her daughter, who had just returned from overseas to take care of her. The dancer grandmother's daughter traveled to Cambodia many times, she knew Phalla well and loved her like her niece. Phalla walked over to sit next to the dancing grandmother and holding her hand lightly, saying that she had succeeded, as the dancing grandmother was very happy. The dancing grandmother tried to smile when she was feeling very tired. She called on her daughter to deliver her an invitation letter from a royal official asking Phalla to dance in the royal ploughing ceremony next month, and Phalla became a member of the palace dancer. As soon as Phalla heard this news she was very happy and it was a great honor for her to perform in such a big event and to realize her dream of being a palace dancer like dancing Grandma. (The royal ploughing ceremony is an ancient royal rite observed annually in Cambodia under the auspices of the king to herald the arrival of the rice planting season and predict crop productivity for the coming season.)

* The Korean Ambassador, when he finished his mission, he made an appointment with Phalla and they always take tourist together, and their friendship has changed from friendship to love. before leaving, he went to her hometown and got engaged with her. On the day of the royal ploughing ceremony, there was a huge crowd, and she danced with her school dance . She also received flowers directly from the country's top leaders. After getting married and living in Korea, she teach dance lessons to Cambodian children who were there and often performed at friendly events between the two countries. While dancing she saw her two grandmothers sitting under the stage to watch her performance Robam Neang Sovannmaccha, which surprised and delighted her that her husband brought them both to watch her perform on the national stage without telling her. (Robam Sovann Maccha is Robam Hanuman and Sovann Maccha) is a traditional Cambodian dance. It tells of the meeting of Hanuman and Sovann Maccha during the construction of the causeway to Lanka in Reamker, a Cambodian version of the Indian epic Ramayana.) After finishing the show, her husband hugged their daughter and approached her, giving her flowers, and they returned home to a house full of joy and happiness.