Sundanese rice harvest festival

 Seren Taun is an annual traditional Sundanese rice harvest festival and ceremony. This festivals originally held to mark the new agriculture year in Sundanese ancient calendar as well as thanks giving for the blessings of the abundance rice harvest, and also to pray for the next successful harvest. Seren taun demonstrated the Sundanese agriculture way of life, and it is held in high importance in Sundanese traditional villages, as the festival draw thousands Sundanese villagers to participate as well as Indonesian or foreign visitors.


The ceremony begins with the ritual Seren Taun ngajayak (Pick Rice), on 18 Rayagung ceremony followed by pulverization of rice and a peak event on 22 Rayagung. Ngajayak in Sundanese language means accepting and welcoming, while the number 18 in the Sundanese language is spoken "compassionate dalapan" connotes compassion means love and mercy of God who has endowed all his life for the people in all corners of the earth.
The main event in the form of comminution Seren Taun rice on 22 Rayagung also has significance. Numbers 22 interpreted as a series of numbers 20 and 2. Rice pounded on the top of the show as much as 22 quintals to 20 quintals for ground division and distributed back to the community and 2 quintals used as seed. Numbers 20 reflects elements of the human anatomy.
Both men and women had a 20 aki nature of human beings, are: 1. getih or blood, 2. meat, 3. feathers, 4. nails, 5. hair, 6. leather, 7. vein, 8. polo or brain, 9. BAYAH or lung, 10. ari or liver, 11. kalilipa or spleen, 12. mamaras or maras, 13. hamperu ataun bile, 14. Bone, 15. marrow, 16. lamad or fat, 17. gegembung or stomach. 18. peujit or intestines. 19. kidney and 20. heart.
The 20 properties on uniting the body's organs and cells with diverse functions, or in other words the body or physical life is seen as a structure that has a legal process such as supernatural. The law was later transformed into a supernatural jirim (raga), jisim (conscience) and recognition (I). While the number 2 refers to the notion that the day and night life, ups and downs, good and bad and sebaginya.
In a ceremony seren epidemic that became the main object is RICE. Rice is considered as a symbol of prosperity for the region in particular and the Sunda Cigugur in general is an agricultural area that SATRA sunda classic stories, like the story of Aci Sahyang Pwah Asri gives fertility to farmers as a messenger from Heaven Jabaning down to earth. In the ceremony seren epidemic is spoken back classic stories sunda poem that tells of a trip Pwah Aci Sahyang Asri. In addition, rice is the main food sources that have a direct influence on the nature of the flesh-20 above.