Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

UNESCO: Culture

They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.

UNESCO: CULTURE

The Paulton side includes a mechanic, a water-treatment engineer and three players who work for manager Jones at his wholesale flower business in Bristol.

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