What is Gadang House? Traditional House in Indonesia.

What is Gadang House  - Houses Gadang or House Godang Is the name for the Minangkabau traditional house traditional house and a lot in the encounter in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The House is also called by other names by local people with the name Bagonjong or Home there is also called with the name of the House Baanjung. Homes with this model also encountered in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. However, not all regions in Minangkabau (darek) which can be erected this custom homes, with only the area that already has the status of a nagari home Gadang can thus be established. Similarly, in the area called rantau, this traditional House also has no established by the nomads of the Minangkabau.

Gadang House and the Rice Granary

The House also has two popular gadang barns:  Tanjau and Bayo. Rice supplies means to Bayo's family from overseas. While Tanjau means rice supplies for Marine host.

The two barns describe the character of the community of West or as Minangkabau Sumatara community who travelled and traded. So often found in any area of a home there is always packed padang or Minangkabau. Its main characteristics as there is always a picture of houses gadang.

What function of the Gadang House

Houses Gadang as a place of living together, has its own provisions. Number of rooms depends on the number of women who live in them. Every woman in the House who have a husband getting a room. While old women and children get a place in a room near the kitchen. Teenage girls get rooms together at the other end.

All parts of the House, Gadang is a freelance Chamber except the bedrooms. The inside is divided into lanjar and spaces that are marked by a pole. Berbanjar off the face of the mast to the rear and left to right. The mast berbanjar from front to back mark lanjar, whereas the mast from left to right marking space. The number of big houses relies on lanjar, could be two, three and four. Its spatial consists of an odd number between three and eleven.

Houses Gadang usually was built on a plot of land belonging stem family in the tribe/clan were hereditary and is only owned and inherited from and to women at the House. The front page of the House there are usually two Gadang fruit Rangkiang, buildings used to store rice. Houses Gadang on wings of buildings next to the right and left there are spaces anjung (Minang: anjuang) as the bride biting or head crowning place custom, because it houses Gadang is named as Baanjuang House. Anjung at kelarasan Body-Randysim not wearing stick strut below it, while on the similarity Koto Piliang-wearing stick buffer. This philosophy embraced both these groups are different, one of the reciprocity rule hierarchy using the buffer Rod wear platforms, on the other as if floating on air anjuang. Not far from the complex Houses Gadang usually also a surau built the House that serves as a place of worship, a place of education and also at once became the residence of the adult males who have not married.

More information about Gadang House

Gadang traditional House is the home of West Sumatra. The word "gadang" Minang great meaning. It is no wonder, if the shape is a rectangle stage and House. The floors were made of wood. Roof stand out and sticking it to the top. Usually, painted with a dark brown color.

Gadang House and the Power Wife

Based on the indigenous people of Minang, every house, gadang inhabited by large families the wife of grandmothers, daughters, etc. Hence, the system of kinship is matrilineal Minangkabau tribe. That is, follow the lineage from the mother.

Therefore, in Minangkabau, indigenous children are brought on the family's mother rather than her father's family. This is exactly the thing that causes the Minangkabau adat man desires woman, not vice versa. The anthropologists argue that matrilineal kinship bloodlines is the oldest lineages in the Minangkabau tribe. The second is the genealogical lineage (father's lineage) and the third is a lineage territories (the descendants of parents).

Do not be surprised, if a man from Minangkabau descent always uses his mother's surname. In fact, if talking about his hometown then is was his mother's hometown.

This is the influence of the houses gadang Minangkabau in public life. In addition, home, gadang also hinted that rights and inheritance passed down by the mother to kemanakannya, and the mother's brother to sister. However, many of Minangkabau society no longer follow the tradition set by House gadang. This result was the Minangkabau society berbaurnya with other community. However, the existence of houses gadang remains marked as tribal custom homes of the Minangkabau.

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