This year’s Moon Offering Ceremony, held as part of the series of events during the Ooc Om Boc – Ngo Boat Racing Festival in Can Tho City 2025, contributes to creating a vibrant and festive atmosphere, adding to the cultural diversity of the festival.
In recent years, the city has consistently prioritised and directed efforts to preserve and promote cultural heritage, thereby helping to safeguard and enhance intangible cultural values and introduce them to both residents and visitors from within and beyond the city.
The customs, practices and traditional rituals of the Khmer people — especially during the Ooc Om Boc – Ngo Boat Racing Festival — feature the Moon Offering Ceremony as one of the main activities attracting tourists to Can Tho City.
According to Khmer belief, the Moon Offering Ceremony is held to express gratitude to the moon deity for protecting the year’s crops, bringing favourable weather and ensuring a bountiful harvest.
In addition, the Moon Offering Ceremony is a traditional custom that contributes to raising awareness of the preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage values of the Khmer ethnic community, meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the people in an era of integration and development.
At the same time, it reflects the attention of the Party and the State in implementing ethnic affairs, promoting the potential and strengths of ethnic minority communities in the city, in line with the overarching policies on economic, cultural and social welfare development.
