When harvest time comes, a reaping bee (long khaek in Thai) will be formed and the group will rotate to help one another until the harvest season ends. While they are reaping, folk songs are sung to entertain themselves during the work. Mostly, they sing in antiphonal style between a male and a female. And this becomes a recreational folk entertainment.
Apart from the ceremonies that the farmers perform which are different from place to place, there is an ancient royal ceremony that has been performed annually in the country at the beginning of the farming season almost uninterruptedly for over 700 years. It is held not only to mark the beginning of the farming season, but also to bless all farmers with fertility for the year.