Five Culture of China That Have Been Fused in Indonesia

5 Culture of China that have been fused in Indonesia

1. puppet potehi

potehi puppet is one kind of puppet typical tionghoa originating from southern China. This art was brought by Chinese ethnic immigrants to various parts of the archipelago in the past and has become one of the types of traditional Indonesian art. Featured stories from Chinese folk legends, such as sampek engthay, anyway djienkoei, capsha thaypoo, sungokong, etc..

2. Bacang

bakcang or bacang is a traditional confectionary tionghoa community. The word ‘bakcang’ itself is derived from the Hokkien dialect dibahasakan prevalent among ethnic Chinese in Indonesia.

These foods, according to legend, appeared on the zhou dynasty related to qu yuan sympathy of the people who committed suicide by jumping into the river Miluo. At that time, bakcang cast by people around into the river to divert the attention of the creatures in it so as not to eat the bodies qu yuan. Then, bakcang become one of the symbols or duanwu Peh Cun festival.

3. Kiasu

Kiasu is a Hokkien spelling (fujianese) for bhashu / tubs. This jargon is often echoed in singapore. This term means (roughly) a fear of being left behind because of lack of mastery. This word is so widely used by people singapore and malaysia are incorporated into their English vocabulary. This word is often used in describing the social attitudes of society, particularly the Singapore society.

Kiasu has been accepted as an official word in the oxford english dictionary. Kiasu is usually compared with the analogous (literally, fear of death) and both are commonly used to describe the behavior or where Kiasu Kiasu-ism means taking extreme ways to obtain success and analogous or analogous-ism means taking extreme ways to avoid the risk .

4. Ai pia cia e ya

This is the “national anthem” Hokkien tribes around the world. Taiwan lyrics of this song reflects the work ethic and the spirit of trying to very high. Like most other Hokkien songs, this song really contains the spirit, where the meaning of the title “love the new fight to win”.

5. Peranakan Chinese culture

many cultures, accents and tionghoa products that are not from mainland china country, but it is a local product which is named after the ancient Chinese. If in malaysia, we know that fish louhan not from china, but the “discovery” of malaysia china fish farmers, in Indonesia we know the “rice cake capgomeh” which does not exist in the land of China, as well as wingko tripe tripe coming from the town in eastern Java.

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