Seren Taun Ritual

Seren Taun is a Sundanese community ceremonies are conducted each year, held solemn and festive CIGUGUR Village, Sub CIGUGUR, Kuningan regency, West Java. Traditional ceremonies as a celebration of this agrarian society rang thousands Brass and surrounding communities, even from some areas in West Java and abroad. Seren taun ceremony is not just entertainment, but also claims about how humans always give thanks to Almighty God, especially at harvest time facing. The ceremony is also intended to God to provide protection in the next planting season. Seren taun ceremony held every 22 Rayagung-date last month on Sundanese calendar system and that, as usual, focused on the marquee Paseban Tri Panca Tunggal, the residence of Prince Djatikusumah, which was founded in 1840. Like the gods of harvest season, grain, and ornamental crops dominate the show circuit. Seren taun highlight is usually opened in 0800, preceded the procession Ngajayak (welcome or pick up the rice), then continued with three colossal performances, the dancing baby, angklung Baduy, and Angklung played a variety of beans, religions and beliefs living in CIGUGUR. Series of significant events thanks to God that was confirmed also by the reading of prayers delivered alternately by religious leaders in Indonesia. Furthermore, the end of the activities carried out Ngajayak, namely the delivery of the rice harvest to the community leaders to then ground together, at the Taman Sari Paseban Complex north Paseban Building. Thousands of people who attended were eventually involved in this activity, follow in the footsteps of the bureaucrats, community leaders, and clergy who first invited to pound rice. Dozens of other people fight for grain from the store called Aci Trance Pwah Asri. Seren taun ritual itself was going on since Saturday, or 18 Rayagung 1937, starting with the opening of the exhibition Art and Commodity Documentation Indigenous Jabar. Every day displayed martial art, nyiblung (water music), art of the Dayak Krimun, Indramayu, flute Rando, tarawelet, Karinding, and distilled from Baduy beetles. For indigenous Karuhun Urang CIGUGUR, Seren Culture Year is a title Sundanese Traditional Agriculture Society as a form of a surge of gratitude to God. That means also the ceremony of the new crops and begged the good achieved for the next year. Why Rayagung held every month? The symbolic meaning Rayagung celebrate the greatness of God. Beginning with rice ngajayak ceremony on 18 Rayagung a ceremony followed by pulverization of rice as a top event on 22 Rayagung with comminution ceremony by hundreds of rice farmers. Date selected 22 Rayagung not without meaning. Figures 22 and 20 consists of 2. Twenty numbers illustrate that the body is anatomically considered together organs and cells with diverse functions. Number two refers to the basic attitude of unity that has become the law of the supernatural, as the day and night, the ups and downs, happy hard, and men and women. Bringing Earth results from the Four Corner Peak Year Seren similar ceremony festival. Public procession consisting of 4 rows of formation of young people, mothers, fathers, and artistic attractions entourage carrying the harvest from the four corners CIGUGUR. Front row, two women carrying rice, fruits, and tubers, followed by a young man carrying an umbrella multilevel three young coconut leaf. Behind him, there were 11 women carrying rice seedlings with the bachelor dipayungi. The number eleven represents the symbol of love (compassion). Third row, there is a group of mothers who carry rice on their heads (nyuhun), while the fourth line, the party bearing fathers and rengkong rice with ordinary pole. The four corners of it as a symbol that represents God's love for his people in the 4 corners. Seeing the various forms and accessories procession creative enough, describing the enthusiasm of the people prepare to follow this ritual. They make various forms of wooden boxes used to carry produce. There is adorned with a statue of a fish Kancra CIGUGUR unique animals and Tigers, and adorned with young coconut leaf trays that look beautiful.