Gawai Dayak
Gawai means party in dayak tanguage. Gawai dayak is a harvest celebration day and began a massive held since 25 september 1964, when the Gawai Dayak celebration is intended as an official day. Welcome at the country level Gawai Dayak Malaysia on june 1, 1965.
Presentation of various traditional elements, for Gawai Dayak making it an exotic event in the middle of a modern urban society. There are a lot of traditional cultural in Gawai Dayak such as the various traditional ceremonies, traditional games and various forms of traditional crafts.
There are several ceremonies that run in the city and lamin ( long house ) a lot of food is offer to the rice good for his blessing to all of the people. A special incantation will be read by the post for the ceremony and blood ceil rooster on the materials of ferings.
Gawai Dayak celebration will be open officially after this ceremony has done. A “ ranyai “ will be in the middle of the room and decorated with food and drinks. They will do ngabang ceremony clothing and the virgin will wear the iban and traditional silver jewelry. Gawai Dayak is closed and ended with a decrease in the principal ranyai.
In its traditional implementation of post. Harvest ceremony is bordered on the village terriotory or ketimanggungan.
Its show was limited to nyangahatn ( reating prayers / mantras ) and exchange of visits with primary treats such as. Salikat / poe’ ( lemang / sticky rice in bamboo ), tumpi’ ( bowspirit ), bontokng ( ricewrapped inleaves of similar sized forest cake ). The type of traditional food made froom annval crops and food additives. Implementation of traditional device takes up to three monts.
