Quite amazingly I arrived in Bali, Indonesia, at the time of a big festival of the Hindu's - called Galungan and it has significant association with bamboo.
The streets are lined with bamboo poles, called peniors, highly decorated bamboo poles - with that they call 'flying dragon tails'.
The long bamboo poles are harvested and their tapering points are kept as they are a feature of the penior.
It is the tradition that the male members of the family decorate the penoir, though some families prefer to purchase peniors already decorated. The women of the household would be busy preparing the food offerings for the holy festival.
The undecorated bamboo pole is called a janur, and the men will select one that they can decorate well, as it is very competitive to have the best penoir,
The decorations of the pole are made with coconut leaves and fashioned into intricate additions to the pole.
When complete the pole is erected along the main street, and as part of it is a little 'box' about 6 feet from the ground, again created by coconut leaves, and into this box on a daily basis food and other offerings are placed. This altar is decorated to resemble the dragon's head.
From the Bali Events calendar
Hari Raya Galungan, This is the most important holiday symbolizing the victory of Virtue (Dharma) upon Evil (Adharma). The holiday is specialized by the fitting of 'penjor', a tall bamboo pole splendidly decorated with woven young coconut leaves, fruit, cakes and flowers, on the right side of every house entrance. People are attired in their finest clothes and jewels this day.
The streets are lined with bamboo poles, called peniors, highly decorated bamboo poles - with that they call 'flying dragon tails'.
The long bamboo poles are harvested and their tapering points are kept as they are a feature of the penior.
It is the tradition that the male members of the family decorate the penoir, though some families prefer to purchase peniors already decorated. The women of the household would be busy preparing the food offerings for the holy festival.
The undecorated bamboo pole is called a janur, and the men will select one that they can decorate well, as it is very competitive to have the best penoir,
The decorations of the pole are made with coconut leaves and fashioned into intricate additions to the pole.
When complete the pole is erected along the main street, and as part of it is a little 'box' about 6 feet from the ground, again created by coconut leaves, and into this box on a daily basis food and other offerings are placed. This altar is decorated to resemble the dragon's head.
From the Bali Events calendar
Hari Raya Galungan, This is the most important holiday symbolizing the victory of Virtue (Dharma) upon Evil (Adharma). The holiday is specialized by the fitting of 'penjor', a tall bamboo pole splendidly decorated with woven young coconut leaves, fruit, cakes and flowers, on the right side of every house entrance. People are attired in their finest clothes and jewels this day.
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