BALINESE DRINKS

BALINESE DRINKS

TUAK

Tuak is made by cutting the undeveloped flower of either the coconut or the sugar palm tree. You then collect the sugary liquid that exudes into a bamboo container and ferment it. Fermented palm tree juice is drunk all over tropical Asia, Africa and America. It is the "toddy" of English colonialists and is drunk in the innumerable small warungs all over the island. It has about the same alcoholic content as beer.

BREM

Brem, pronounced "brum", is rice wine. It can be bought commercially, but ours is home made. Like arak, it is used in almost all ceremonies. It is a pleasant drink and can be drunk neat, over ice or mixed with arak. It is sweet and is made from glutinous rice or sticky rice (as it is also called). The rice is cooked for hours. Yeast is added. It is then allowed to ferment for three days, whereupon the brem drains into a pan. There are commercial factories, but the taste is not so good. It is not exported.

ARAK BALI

Arak is distilled tuak. It has a much higher alcoholic content and is colourless. It has a very sharp, biting taste. Since there is no fermentation, it can be bottled and sold. As the taste is unpleasant, the Balinese mix it with spices. It can also be added to coffee or mixed with brem. Arak is used as an offering in religious ceremonies. Having no sugar content, arak will keep indefinitely, unlike tuak. It cannot be a coincidence that the Mongols made distilled liquor called airak.

BALINESE WINE

In the last few years, local wines have been produced, using Australian grapes. There is red, white and rosé, grown and bottled by two companies, Hatten and Wine of the Gods.

PRINCIPLE CONCEPT OF BALINESE ARCHITECTURE

ASTA KOSALA-KOSALI IS THE BASICALLY PRINCIPLE CONCEPT FOR BALINESE ARCHITECTURE.

The Balinese people believe that all their daily life active is connecting to the Yadnya and all the religious ceremonial which is implementation their sacrifice or Bakthi to the god Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa (the balinese Hindu god), they belive if they don’t do the ceremonial so they will take the karma pahala. Karma phala is result that what we have done in the pass goodness and badness, basically the Hindu concept is commences to its follower to make good behavior respect, help and loving each other, (well I thing all the religious in the world has good purpose) which base on Trikaya Parisuda which consist of manacika good thinking, wacika good speaking, kayika good behavior this all concept are implementation in symbol in daily Balinese activity.

Asta Kosala-Kosali is basically principle role for Balinese people to build house, commonly before build the there are some ritual that done in the land where the house will build it this ritual called ngeruak dan continue to mecaru the ritual clean the area from negative element. Asta Kosala-Kosali basically is a symbol from the god which the building facing each in parallelogram (Catur Loka Pahala/ Asta Dala) which implementation from the symbol Lingga-Yoni, Purusa-Perdana, Yin-Yan, positif-negatif male dan female. The construction of the Asta Kosala-Kosali house basically connected to the relationship to Bhuana Alit and Buana Agung which followed the instruction to the Hindu philosophies.

The Balinese architecture which base on the The Asta Kosala-Kosali is consists of some building in one area. The Madya Mandala consist of Bale dangin this building are located on the east side facing with Bale Dauh which the position are located in the west side and in the nourth side is Bale Sekutus Bandung or Bale Gedong facing to the Bale Delod or Bale merainan. The merajan or the Utamaning Mandala (the pure place for prying for the ancestors) is located on north east of all the building and the kitchen located in northwest adjacent with the Kelumpu (rice barn) and the entrance located in northwest facing to the north side. According to the Asta Kosala-Kosali the concept of traditional Balinese house divede into three part Tri Mandala which consist of utama mandala (place for building tample) Madya Mandala (place fro build home stay) and Nista Mandala place for garden or pet) commonly in Bali thre are one house own bay one family which consist of a father, a mother and some daughter, soon with some grandchildren.

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BALINESE CALASSICAL PAINTINGS

PAINTINGS IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUSE BALINESE ART FORM

Before foreign painters came to Bali in the 1920 and 1930s, paintings were rigidly one dimensional, but western influence brought a flowering of representational art, often of typical village scenes, flowers or animal.

Examples of both classical mostly calendars and of the Penestanan and Pengosekan representational style are found in many shops that offer painting. There are many art studios around Ubud and in the villages of Batuan, Bedulu, Kamasan and Kerambitan, there is such an explosion of interest in Balinese art that visitors may find it difficult to find work of true quality.

If you are just looking something charming to remind you of your visit to Bali, you’ll find it in one of the hundred of tourist shops which sell paintings. However if you want to find work of real talent, then the up market galleries found in Ubud and in the shopping malls attached to 5 star hotels would be a good place to start.

Galleries include the Tama Gallery, the Komaneka Gallery on Jalan Monkey Forest in central Ubud, and Agung Rai Gallery in Ubud suburb of Peliatan.

THE POWER OF BALINESE CLASSICAL DANCES

THE POWER OF BALINESE CLASSICAL DANCES

LEGONG DANCE

A beautiful and graceful dance by very young girl. Its involves two girl dancing in mirror image of each other. Costume are very rich, and the dance contains very subtle eye, hand foot movement. The Legong is often performed in restaurant and hotels. But the most famous performances are those by The Peliatan group of Ubud Bali.


TOPENG (MASK) DANCE

The Mask Dance. The most common form is Topeng Tua (Old Mask), where solo performer dons the mask of very old man, and through his physical movement portrays the thoughts, emotions and feeling of the character.

In order variants, a troupe may portray a number of different characters. Because of the technical demands of the dance the performers can not use facial expression to convey wide variety of meanings and must use their bodies, the Topeng Dances are not commonly held for tourist, but are performed as part of other cultural events such as the Bali Arts Festival and other special occasions.

BARONG AND RANGDA DANCE

This dance still held in the streets of traditional Balinese communities as well as in tourist venues where it may be known as the Kris Dance. Essentially it is a tale of good triumphing over evil. The Barong, which is a humorous and mischievous kind of lion, does battle with the wicked witch Rangda.

The most visual arresting part of the dance is when the Barongs supporters, a group of young men wielding traditional Balinese daggers, fall into trance and stab themselves without apparent injury. In traditional performances of the Barong, the trances are deep and real, and at the end, a priest bring the dancers out of their trance with holy water.