The central region has the ceremony

The central region has the ceremony of parading a female cat to pray for rain. According to an ancient belief, the cries of a female cat could draw a rainfall. So the heart of the ceremony is when people throw water at the cat to make it cry a lot. In preparing for this tradition, a selected beautiful female cat is put into a thinly woven bamboo basket. The colourfully dressed farmers in a village will form a procession to parade the cat around the village. When walking, they will joyfully dance and sing a song with the lyrics asking for a rainfall enough for feeding their crops. The procession will pass from one house to another. Villagers staying in their houses when hearing the approaching procession will prepare a bowl of water and then splash it on the cat while the members of the procession will express their gladness as if it were really raining and say,

"Rain is falling. Rain is falling. A lot of rainfall. Our rice fields and the grass are all green now."

It is believed that if any house owner whose house the parade passes by fails to throw water at the cat, the cat will get angry and instead of calling rain for the farmers will use magic powers to prolong the drought. The ceremony ends after the procession has passed every house in the village.