Kadazan Festivals

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Festivals Festival can be defined as any occasion for celebration, especially one which commemorates an anniversary or other significant event, and normally the festival celebrated give people so much to remember until it becomes a memory. Different countries have different festivals, history, culture, values, beliefs, languages and religions. Therefore, this rules apply to the Kadazans too. There are several festivals celebrated by the Kadazans, and is still practiced until now. The Harvest Festival The purpose of celebrating this festival is to respect the Bambarayon, Deities, Divinities and Spirits, who may be hurt by the unethical human-being acts. Normally, purification is performed in respect of human and spiritual needs for …show more content…
Children that are getting marry is all dependent on their parents such as the preliminaries to kadazan weeding. The parents of the man always start 1st of a prospective bride. The father of the guy will have a talk and approach a girl to marry the guy. After that the girl parents have to think nicely not only thing they also may go to the guy house to see a better picture of their future son-in-law. The most important is they came to see the family for the required nopung, the dowry. If the family of the girl agree to union. The parents of the guy will visit the secont time and arranged the engagement between them. The price of a bride is consists of 10 ancient brass canons, 15 buffaloes, one brass gong and 3 large Chinese jars. Those count as a buffalo cost 10 ringgits and a canon is 15 ringgits. If we see from now 10 ringgits it is cost 500 ringgits. The jars, buffalo and the canon can be given by money too. Once everything have settled about the payment that they agreed upon , they now plan for a weeding day date. From the moon calendar seen that any month are good for weeding but except march because the say it is for cemeteries cleaned and the fasting month for malay. Most of kadazan friend are malay so won’t choose those date. When everything settled about the weeding from the …show more content…
The back of its lamella is pitched lowered by adding beeswax and to make it vibrate in the centre of the lamella is to strike the end of the instrument with the thumb. The vibrating strip produces very little sound itself, but if it is held before the opened mouth, the player can gently enlarge the sound by resonance. By veering the shape of the mouth and the position of the tongue, the player can obtain a wide range of frequencies. When the instrument is not in use, it is usually enclosed in and attached to a bamboo tube to prevent it from dirt and damage.

http://www.sabah.edu.my/itma004/kulingtangan.htm
Kulintangan (Idiofon)
This instrument is traditionally used by Bajaus and some Kadazandusun people although it was first introduced into the west Sabah by the Bruneis. It is usually played in festive occasions like weddings and religious ceremonies, where it is usually accompanied by other traditional gongs. This instrument has a set of about eight to nine small brass kettle gongs. Each gongs hit sound a different pitch and the gongs are arranged horizontally in a row on a low wooden bed-like frame. The player uses two small wooden mallets to beat the gongs as he or she sits in front of the gongs on the floor.

http://hafizan-malik.blogspot.com/2012/05/alat-alat-muzik-sabah-dan-sarawak.html#
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