Houses gadang a Minangkabau traditional house. Gadang
house has features that are very typical. The form is
essentially a rectangular beam that expands upward.
Melintangnya sharp curved lines and ramps in the middle of
the lower. Curved roof of his house is very sharp like buffalo
horns, while the curved body and home ramps like the hull.
Roof made ?of palm fiber. Form a curved roof and pointed
upward is called gonjong. Because of its roof form gonjong,
then the house is also home gadang bagonjong.
Gadang which form the roof like a buffalo horn is often
associated with stories Tambo Minangkabau Alam. The story
of victory in the event of Minang people fighting against the
Javanese buffalo.
The forms resemble buffalo horns are very commonly used
in the Minangkabau, either as symbol or the jewelry. One
of them in traditional clothes, namely tingkuluak tanduak
tengkuluk horn to Bundo Kanduang.
The origins of house gadang also often associated with travel
stories Minangkabau ancestors. The legend says gadang
Minangkabau house body shape that resembles a ship's body
is to imitate the form of boat Minangkabau ancestors during
the first. Boat ancestor is known as presumptuous.
According to the story, this sassy ancestors originally sailed
into the upper Batang Kampar. After arriving in an area, the
passengers and crew climbed ashore. This sassy also drawn
to the land so as not decomposed by the water stream.
Presumptuous then supported by the timber to stand
strong. Then, it was presumptuous to hang the screen on
the roof with a rope attached to the pole presumptuous.
Furthermore, because the screen is hanging very heavy,
rope-rope to form arches that resemble gonjong. This
presumptuous to make a temporary shelter. Furthermore,
the passenger boat makes a dwelling house that
resembles those presumptuous. Once the ancestors of
the Minangkabau of this spread, the form continues to be
presumptuous that bergonjong as the characteristic shape of
their home. Given these characteristics, among them even
his descendants become easier to recognize each other.
They will easily find out that the house had belonged to their
relatives gonjong originating from the same sassy landed on
the edge of Batang Kampar.
The sections in the House Gadang Minangkabau
Minangkabau traditional house is called house gadang
is because the size of this house is big. Great in the
Minangkabau language is gadarig. So, home gadang means
big house. The inside of the house is a room off the large
sieve, except the bedroom. The room is off the main room
consisting of tapering and space that is marked by poles. Pole
house gadang berbanjar from the face to the back or from
left to right. Berbanjar mast from front to back mbnandai
tapering, while the pole of right now to mark the space. So-
called tapering is the room from front to back. The rooms are
lined up from left to right is called space.
Number of tapering depends on the big house. Usually the
amount of tapering is two, three, four clans. Number of
rooms usually consist of an odd number between three and
eleven. Gadang house size depending onamount lanjarnya .
As a big house, then in the house there was gadang parts
that have special functions. Another part of the house is
the large sieve under the floor. This section is called the pit
of a house gadang. Gadang under the house is quite high
and wide. These pools are usually used as a storehouse of
agricultural equipment or used as a women's weaving. All
parts of this pit covered with a latticed ruyung rare.
Gadang house wall made ?of wood, except the back of the
bamboo. The wall board is installed vertically. At each
connection board framed. All boards are filled with carvings.
Sometimes the pole is in the well carved. Thus, ukirang
is the dominant decoration in the home building gadang
Minangkabau. Carvings here are not associated with beliefs
that are sacred, but only as valuable works of art decoration.
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