The Trace of Cultural Migration from Yunnan Culture, South China to the Javanese Oral Tradition.

Keywodrs : Culture, Yunnan

Sudardi, Bani
LPPM UNS, Penelitian, DP2M, Hibah Kompetitif Penelitian Strategis Nasional, 2009

The three aims of this research are (to describe Yunnan, South China oral tradition, (2) to describe Javanese oral traditions, and (3) to describe the relationship between Yunnan Oral Traditions to the Javanese oral tradition. It is a descriptive research and subject matter is comparative oral tradition studies and we hope can be one of instruments to define the relations between tribea and nation. It is a descriptive and explorative research. The variables are the similarity and differences of oral tradition in Java and Yunnan.The sites of this research are (1) Javanese cultural territory from East Java to Cirebon and (2) Yunnan cultural territory in South China in the Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Gizhou, and Yunnan itself. We found that Yunnan oral tradition and Javanese oral tradition generally have same motifs. But, there are differences in the whole stories due the differences of culture developments ad separated by Long Ocean. Generally, the similarity is in the part of the stories and the dgfev online casino differences are in the plot stories. The Yunnan stories didn”t connected to the Indian stories and have natural traits, the ending are happy and sad. The Javanesse stories generally are happy ending. Javanese stories were contaminated by Indian stories like Mahabharata and Ramayana and many stories didn”t found in Mahabharata and Ramayana told that the event happened to the Mahabharata and Ramayana characters. The principal differences on the Gods traits, Yunnan”s gods are dominantly humanistic and in the other hand, Javanese”s god is described like true god and more powerful In the Chinese stories, houri comes to the human world because they love human and in Javanese stories, houri come to human world and married by a man because cunning mind of the man.Javanese stories as Joko Kendhil story, Babad story, and Panji stories show us the close relation between with Yunnan stories. We conclude that these part of these stories brought by ancestors Archipelago people when they came from Yunnan to this site.