People who have their house in Takhmao Town celebrate the 12 anniversaries of Tamao.One upon a time, there was a man who named was Moa.He was good person who always take care of sellers and people in his village.In the morning, he went to Market to help people with their businesses.At evening and night, he usually guarded all products of seller at Market.From one year to one year, his age become older and older.Then when he got sick, all people were really pity to him and then they started to help him by providing the medicine to him.However, because of the natural law, he could not escape from the sickness and the year of too old.After that he died when he got server sickness.
Therefore, all people in that village name their village Tamao or Takhmao until today.The monks at Kro Perha pagoda started to build the Takmao Status and people always go to pray at his status on Thnay Penh Borormey (The day of full moon).They usually rent the group of Pen Peat to play during their praying.Therefore, the village, the commune, the district, and the market, they started to call Takhmao until today.