Gadang a Minangkabau house. The house has a large sieve
characteristics that are very typical. Its basic form is a rectangular block
that expands to the top. Sectional curved lines and sloping sharply lower with
the middle part. Curved roof of the house is very sharp as buffalo horn, while
the curved body and home ramps like the hull. Her roof made of palm fiber. Roof
forms a curved and tapered upward was called gonjong. Because the roof is
formed gonjong, then the longhouse called bagonjong home.
The origin of house form gadang
Form roofs gadang like buffalo horn is often associated with
the story of Tambo Alam Minangkabau. The story about the triumph of Minang
people in the event of buffalo race against the Javanese.
The forms resemble buffalo horns are very commonly used
Minangkabau, either as symbols or in jewelry. One of them in traditional
clothing, namely tingkuluak tanduak (tengkuluk horn) to Bundo Kanduang.
(Pagaruyung Palace, one of the traditional house of the
famous western Sumatra)
The origins of the longhouse form is also often associated
with travel stories Minangkabau ancestors. The legend says that the house body
shape which resembles a sieve Minangkabau body mimics the shape of the vessel
is a boat Minangkabau ancestors in ancient times. The boat's ancestors known as
sassy.
According to the story, sassy's ancestors originally sailed
upstream Trunk Kampar. Having arrived in an area, the passengers and the crew
went ashore. This sassy also pulled ashore in order not weathered by the water
of the river.
(Form gonjong taken from buffalo horn shape)
Sassy then supported by the timber to stand firmly. Then,
sassy was given a roof with screen hanging on a rope which is attached to the
pole presumptuous. Furthermore, because the screen that hangs very heavy, the
strings form an arch that resembles gonjong. This sassy be the shelter for a
while. Furthermore, the passengers of the boat made a dwelling house which
resembles those sassy. After the ancestors of this Minangkabau spread, sassy
shapes that bergonjong continue to serve as the hallmark of their home form.
Given this characteristic, their fellow offspring even easier to recognize each
other. They would easily know that the house that had belonged to their
relatives gonjong is derived from the same sassy edge to land in Batang Kampar.
The sections in the Tower House Minangkabau
Minangkabau house called the longhouse is because the size
of this house is great. Great in Minangkabau language is gadarig. Thus, the
longhouse means big house. The inside of the house is a room gadang off, except
the bedroom. This is a room off the main room, divided into linear and space
marked by a pole. Pole gadang berbanjar from front to back or from left to
right. Pole berbanjar from front to back mbnandai linear, while the mast from
now to the right marks the space. So-called linear is the room from front to
back. The rooms are lined from left to right are called space.
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