Event Composition Siraman

                              

Here's Rundown SIRAMAN complete event according to Javanese tradition. In a traditional Javanese wedding procession, usually the day before the ceremony duration and panggih (meet), both prospective bride and lectures held at the residence of spray each bride.

 The event “Pengajian”( reading of Qur'an verses) course aims to apply prayer to God Almighty's blessing to all the wedding circuit can take place smoothly. After “pengajian”, a series of ceremonies starting SIRAMAN. Before the ceremony begins SIRAMAN core, usually preceded by the installation ceremony Blakatepe and Tuwuhan. At the installation ceremony was Blaketepe and Tuwuhan main equipment to prepare the ladder and a tray of rice:

PASANG BLAKETEPE

It is a tradition of making 'blaketepe' or woven palm leaves to serve as the roof or shade Manton reception. These procedures take 'wewarah' or the teaching of Ki Ageng Tarub, one of the ancestral kings of Mataram. We have the intent to marry his son Raden Goddess Nawangsih with Bondan Kejawan, Ki Ageng a shade of woven palm leaves. This was done because the house is a small Ki Ageng can not load all the guests, so guests outside the house shaded by "Payon"( tools to create shade) coconut leaves.

With the given 'Payon' is the space used for the "guests Great" became widespread and accommodate all guests. Then Payon from coconut leaves called 'Tarub', derived from the name of the person who first made. Procedures put Tarub is the father up the stairs, while the mother was holding the ladder while helping to provide 'blaketepe' (woven leaves the head).

These procedures became a symbol of mutual cooperation of both parents into the family protector Pasang padi/Place Rice (melengkapi tuwuhan)

Pasang Padi /melengkapi tuwuhan(Place the rice)

Siblings of the bride with a tray of rice. This rice will be installed by both parents Prospective Bride, in which tuwuhan already installed on the gate of the house.

Tuwuhan implies an expectation to children who may have children of forecasting, to establish a family history.

Tuwuhan consists of:

* Plantain tree whose fruits are ripe

Selected mean the ripe bananas is expected to be married couples who already have mature thinking . While plantain meaning of hope to couples who will be married someday have wealth, glory and honor as a king.

* Tebu wulung / old sugar cane

"Tebu wulung" dark red as the picture-ing to decorate or sources of sweetness. This symbolizes the all-good life. While wulung significance for the Javanese means elderly or old. After entering the marriage, the bride is expected to have older people who always act with 'kewicaksanaan' or wise

* Cengkir Gadhing

Is a symbol of the womb where the baby or the symbol of the descendants

* Daun Randu/Leaves cottonwoods and pari sewuli/rice bundle

Cottonwoods symbolizes the clothing, while stingrays food symbolizes. So it's meaningful to the bride always adequate clothing and food.

* Godhong apa-apa (various leaves)

Like a banyan leaf which symbolizes protection, grass weeds in the hope that free from any obstruction.

After the ceremony and Blaketepe pairs Tuwuhan completed, the next is SIRAMAN procession. Equipment that needs to be prepared in the procession this spray include:

* Mixing of the air siraman (water spray) which includes kembang setaman (flowers series) and water to bathe. Water spray is derived from 7 different springs. And for the Muslims generally enter Zam-Zam as one of the springs 7.

• Prepare 2 short desk like the one in the living room near the bathhouse. Table is to put: Cain, towel and robe and Ubo Rampe. Cloth, towel and robe should have matching colors, so pleasing to the eye :

• "Klenting '(water container) flower arrangements

• Coconut split for bucket baths

• Prepare the catering table 2 and was decorated. Table is to put

• "Klenting '(water container) flower arrangements

• Coconut split for bucket baths

• Prepare the catering table 2 and was decorated. Table is to put

- Tumpeng Robyong (additional pieces of equipment in the event cone: 1 tray filled with 1 plate, a pair of spoons fork, ladle and a knife. ladle and knife decorated by a ribbon). why was decorated as before the event starts usually shoot the same equipment in the coverage and documentation section. So to make it look pretty.

- Dodol dawet.

After the equipment "siraman" complete. Then began a series of ceremonies SIRAMAN as follows:

Shipping Air Perwito Adi to groom candidates

Done sending "air perwito adi" to the residence of the Groom Candidate. Candidates for the Bride's family to send 2 representatives (2 pairs of husband and wife) who was assigned to a family representative candidate in sending Bride " air perwito adi " to the residence of the Groom Candidate.

Ambassador Candidates for the Bride's family will be facing parents Prospective Bridegroom, and to witness the ceremony had been performed "siraman" in the residence of the Groom Candidate. Prospective Groom after completing a "siraman" and Potong Rikmo (Haircut), haircuts Prospective Bridegroom will be taken back to the candidate's residence by Ambassador Bride Groom Candidate families.

Sungkeman / Pangabekten

Before doing "siraman" bride should do Sungkeman to Mr. and Mrs. wedding. In the event this Sungkeman showed signs of a child's devotion to parents and as well become a means of shedding my gratitude and an apology and blessing of a child to his parents.

Usually at this Sungkeman confuse rather blue mood. And certainly bride and groom and parents will be a flood of tears. Huhuhuhu ..

Sungkeman ceremony this text can be downloaded here ya: text-Sungkeman-before-spray

Siraman

"Siraman" held to purify themselves and also remove all the ugliness that no candidate bride, bride to be able to start a new life with a clean heart and pure. "Siraman" performed by 9 people elders, including his father. The number nine is by culture of Surakarta, to commemorate the grandeur Wali Sanga, which means the merging of Java to Islam. In addition significant numbers are also nine 'babahan hawa sanga' that must be controlled.

"Siraman", the first time, conducted by Mr. bride and groom and was followed by the bride mother. After the parents finished, then the seven elders who do "siraman". For the bride, elders who do "siraman" must be a woman. As for grooms, elders who do "siraman" must be male.*)

After the elder finished doing "siraman". Father of the bride and groom poured water from kendil and guide the bride and groom to make ablution. When finished, the bride's mother close to flush water from kendil. And then dropped until kendil broke her say:

NIAT INGSUN ORA MECAH KENDI, NANGIN MECAH PAMORE ANAKKU
My intention was not to break the jug, but it broke my fame (his son's name called)

Hair Cut

Having finished "siraman", and then conducted a procession potong rikmo / haircut. The second haircut bride will be united in the ceremony Tanem Rikmo/ hair bury. Usually the ceremony "Tanem Rikmo" done after the candidate's family representative Bride returned from the residence of the groom candidates.



Dodol dawet

Sell dawet cendol taken the meaning of a symbol round unanimous will of the parents to match children. For people who will buy these dawet must pay the 'kreweng' (broken tiles) rather than with money. It shows that human life comes from the earth. Serving buyers are mothers who receive payment while the father. This is taught to their children who will marry on how to make a living as husband and wife, must help each other.
Dawet is also a symbol that the next day at the ceremony and reception, the guests who come to as much as the dawet cendol. Ha .. ha ..


Cut Tumpeng Kamulyan
(cut cone glory)

Father of the bride and groom cut the cone Kamulyan and given to the bride mother. The golry cone piece that will be fed to the bride during the event Dulangan Kapungkasan.


Dulangan Kapungkasan
(last mouthful)

Last mouthful bride from her parents. The bride and groom sat flanked by their parents. Before the Kapungkasan Dulang ceremony, bride's father, gave the dawet sell proceeds to the bride.

Bujono kembul Ondrowino

Lunch with the guests who attended

Discharge Chicken

Parents are sincere and willing to take off his daughter to live independently. Like a child Chicken, which was released was able to find / scrounge some food themselves. Expected for the future of her daughter could live independently and can obtain a vast fortune and blessings.

Source: Mahligai Magazine 4th Edition 2007, Mother Kiky Soekanto from Kamaratih and Tante Hesty

Note :

Sungkeman/pangabekten is an attitude of respect in the squatting position and to offer worship to the parents or elder people.


"babahan hawa sanga" means to control the passion that comes from the nine elements of the human self, and release pamrihnya (mean booby in meeting the desire for personal gain)


*)The first person to bath her is the grand-father and then the grand mothers followed by several elder women with good moral back-ground who have already grand children. Usually there are seven peoples to bath her, seven in Javanese means Pitu, and so they can give Pitulungan, which means help.
Seven times she is purified with holy water from seven springs, with water from an earthen 'KENDI' flash with a neck and a spout. When the Kendi is empty, it is broken on the floor: when the Kendi’s spout is not broken, it is believed that the baby will be a boy, otherwise it’s a girl.