TREATING TRADITIONS IN DRAGON VILLAGES

Kampung Adat Naga is known?as a lush highlands. Located at a height of 1200 mdpl, at the outskirts of Ciwulan River, 25 kilometers from Garut City or 30 kilometers from Tasikmalaya City. The community in the area is one of the custom villages that still hold their ancestor tradition. One of them is a tradition of rice harvest.

It is not to sort the spirit of the city’s custom villagers to rush into rice fields. Armed? stone, ani-ani, and other rice harvester tools, the women wrapped in a complete side fabric with the cover of his head, swinging the hectares of rice fields? with a clear padi. Before the harvest is started, there is a tradition that can not be passed by the farmers of the city village.? The farmers did the squad of the squad or prayer reading before harvesting the rice.

The prayer reading can only be led by male farmers. While women wait on the side? sawah, following the process of reading prayer by representatives of the citizens who were brought. Before doing the opening ceremony, farmers first put four foliage at some point of sawah ready to harvest. These four leaves are the leaves of kawung pucuk, leaf darandan, pacing leaves, gadog, and seeur. Leaves - the dauin was laid at some point like in each pjok sawah, or in the middle area. In addition, farmers should also bring the ampas and rice butterflies laid in the pupuhunan juru.

Suasana Kampung Naga, Tasikmalaya District, West Java.

Sapporo Village, Tasikmalaya District, West Java.

Then, the harvested rice is not directly pounded. The rice will then be collected in the open space, then the farmers do the ceremonies? namely prayer reading ceremony? as a form of gratitude to the creator before the rice is enjoyed by the society.

Chairman of the Ministry of Village Naga, Negative Village, Salawu District, Tasikmalaya District, Ucu Suherlan revealed, the community made a second-time harvest in a year.? Usually, the time of planting padi uses January-July system. There are about five hectares of rice fields in the Dragon. The average rice production reaches five kilograms per brick (14 meters). Meanwhile, per family head usually has 30 bricks.

All the harvest traditions carried out by the indigenous villages of the Dragon are a form of a grateful expression to the creator. For people? Kampung Naga, padi is ly distributed as a woman. What is it? pregnant women, since when rice is planted up to? harvest time,? ritual prayer becomes? traditions that must be done so that the yield of harvest can be abundant.

There are indigenous peoples in Naga Village in Tasikmalaya District, West Java.

The light of the petromak used by the village of Naga to illuminate his house in Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java.

Photo And Text : Bow Adeng

Warga cuts firewood for cooking fuel in Kampung Naga, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java.

Warga planted rice seeds in the village of Naga, Kabupetan Tasikmalaya, West Java.

The color of formulating rice when harvesting in Kampung Naga, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java.

The number of citizens harvest rice in the village of Naga, Kabupetan Tasikmalaya, West Java.

The people used to formulate rice when harvesting in the village of Naga, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java.

Warga harvested rice in Naga Village, Tasikmalaya District, West Java.

Warga sunbathing rice on the home page in Naga Village, Tasikmalaya District, West Java.

See the chicken that is laying in one of the houses in the village of Naga, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java.

Editor : Prasetyo Utomo

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