Wayang is the art of indigenous performances of Indonesia is growing rapidly in Java and Bali and surrounding areas. Wayang is considered to have been present since 1500 years before Christ. Wayang was born from the ancestors of Javanese ancestors in the past. In those days, wayang were thought to be made of grasses tied together so that the shape was still very simple. Wayang played in ritual worship of ancestral spirits and in Javanese traditional ceremonies.
In subsequent periods, the use of other materials such as hunting games or bark became known in the making of wayang. The oldest shadow puppets ever found are thought to date from the 2nd century AD. The show is also popular in some areas such as Sumatra and Malaya Peninsula also has some wayang culture that is influenced by Javanese and Hindu culture.
UNESCO, the cultural institution of the United Nations, on November 7, 2003 established the wayang as the famous puppet show of Indonesia, a legacy of the world's invaluable masterpieces of the Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The Javanese people's love for wayang art at that time also influenced the process of spreading Islam in Java. Sunan Kalijaga for example, when he preaches, he will hold a puppet show and play it to invite many people to come. In the show, he inserted the message of morale and Islamic da'wah slowly so that the majority of people still embracing Hinduism and Buddhism were interested to know Islam deeper.
In Indonesia there are various types of puppets. Puppet comes in many shapes, sizes, and mediums, including in the form of scrolls of images, leather, wood, and masks. However, there are 5 most popular types of puppets
1. Wayang beber
2. Wayang Kulit
3. Wayang golek
4. Wayang Klitik
5. Wayang Wong
Wayang is now becoming known. Several types of puppets have also been developed to enrich the treasures of the world of perwayangan. Some examples of wayang golek puppet wayang, wayang orang, Wayang Kulit, Wood Puppet, Wayang Orang, Wayang Grass, and Wayang Motekar.
Wayang are increasingly popular in all human circles. but due to the progressive times of the puppet era has begun to fade in the eyes of urban wayang only in the show at the performing arts, traveling exhibitions. to advance the existing culture we must continue the tradition of the ancestors who have been made so much and have many meanings of every word or motion of what is in the nuisance by the wayang and Wayang maker.
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