Beautiful Khmer Couple with Khmer Sbai wedding traditional costumes of the Kingdom of Cambodia Thursday, October 3, 2024
Beautiful Khmer Couple with Khmer Sbai wedding traditional costumes of the Kingdom of Cambodia 🇰🇭💕
What is the Sbai traditional costumes of Cambodia?
The Sbai is a Khmer word and it is used to refer to a female garment in Khmer Empire territory. The term Sbai is used for a woman's silk breast wrapper in Cambodia, in Central Thailand and in Laos.The Sbai is well known as a long piece of silk, about a foot wide and that is all draped diagonally from around the chest covering one shoulder and while leaving one shoulder bare which its end drops behind the back and it can even be worn with a blouse too.
Sbai may have been derived from of an Indian garment called Sari. But in fact, there are of related mythology in the Khmer Culture, retained a history of Sbai which it can likely to be invented since the 1st Century of the Funan era in Cambodia's history. Preah Thong and Neang Neak a legend which share a common with the founder of Funan era
and there is an important little rite within of the marriage ceremony called Preah Thong Taong Sbai Neang Neak, a symbolic representation of the legend as the groom must hang or cling to that of the bride's Sbai from behind her and he must follow her to the room for a honeymoons !