Being Kelantanese is something that can be proud of. This is
because Kelantan do have many unique cultures that can be explore by youth
nowadays. Knowing about that will give nothings to regret. The practice of kelantanese
daily is quite influence by their culture in term of life style, entertainment
and food.
1) Dikir Barat
Dikir Barat one of the kelantanese cultures practices in term of entertainment.
Usually it involves a group of singer that consist of tukang karut as a leader
and awok-awok in any kind of group size. Tukang karut is important to begin the
performance by sing the poems and followed by the awok-awok. While awok-awok
will sing the song exactly like what tukang karut did and in same times they
have to clapping and make energetic body movements. More interesting Dikir
barat will be accompany with music that played by the members of the groups
such as gong, gendang, rebana and also kerincing. For the beginning of the
culture it was dominated by the men but nowadays women also involving their self
in this culture entertainment. Dikir barat theme relate more to lyrics that
touch upon life, like any poet, but he can also address social issues, legal
matters, animal lifestyles, government regulations, and human foibles. The tone
can be satirical, sarcastic, or simply humorous, but above all it is expected
that it be clever.
2) Wayang kulit Kelantan
Other than dikir barat kelantanese also love to play wayang kulit. This wayang kulit also their culture practices that still exist in nowadays and usually perform during various festive occasions. Wayang kulit can be consider as theatre that refer to popular shadow puppet show in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, especially those in Kelantan and Terengganu, and also in Johor. Wayang kulit being play by using the puppets are crafted from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. Light is the most important element and being use with a piece of white cloth that held up in front of the light, with an electric bulb or an oil lamp as the light source, shadows are cast on the screen. The most important person in this entertainment is tok dalang where he is the genius behind the entire performance. It is he who sits behind the screen and narrates the story.
3) Food of paradise in Kelantan
Most Kelantanese food is influence by Thailand dishes and it being one of the uniqueness culture in Kelantan. If you have to stay in Kelantan for several days, I bet you
would have to survive in term of having a meal. . This is because major food
in Kelantan are consist of sweet food but for those who don’t mind about having
a sweet food you just put yourself in food of paradise. It became Kelantanase
culture to have sweet food in every each meal that they have, even the curry also taste sweet. Kelantanese Thai dish is 'kaeng matsaman which is beef curry cooked with peanuts, potatoes and chopped red onions in a thick coconut milk source. Even though the taste is sweet, there are many
tourist claims that Kelantan do have a lot of delightful food such as akok,
netbat, taik itik and many others foods. The varieties of food in Kelantan make kelantan have their own identity.
4) Kelantanese life style
By looking at people in Kelantan we can say that
their attitudes are influence by their culture. This is because most of the
residents run the business as their main work. Previously men have dominated in this culture
but now we can see women also can work by their own. Kelantanese prefer to work by self rather than being employ by others. If you have an
opportunity to be in Kelantan, take a chance to visit pasar siti khatijah where
there are many women sell their own stuff such as food, vegetables, clothes,
and jewellery. Others than that, kelantanese love to have their own asset. For
women they love to spend the money on the gold jewellery and they believe it
important for their seek of future.
As a conclusion, Kelantan do have a lot of unique culture
that being practices everyday. If you have the chances go there and tried to
experience the Kelantan's culture by your own self.
resources:
1) http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang_Kulit
2) http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikir_barat
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelantan
resources:
1) http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang_Kulit
2) http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikir_barat
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelantan
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