Megamendung History

History of the emergence of motifs adopted by the community Megamendung Cirebon taken from various books and literary history always lead to the arrival of China who came to the region of Cirebon. Clearly recorded in history that Sunan Gunungjati married Queen Ong Tien from China. Some art objects brought from China, such as ceramics, dishes, fabric Decorated with clouds form. A shape symbolizes the world in a variety of cultures over ideology when taken from Taoism. Cloud forms a broad picture of the world, free and has a meaning transidental (Divinity). The concept of this cloud was also influential in the artistic world of Islam in the 16th century used by the Sufis for the expression of major world or nature.

Basic values in Batik Cirebon

The fundamental values in any art including batik motifs in art can be approached in a way Megamendung as follows:

a. Value of appearance (appearance) or the value of a form that gave birth to the art. This value consists of the value of the shape and structure of values. Value of a form that can be seen visually is the motive Megamendung in a beautiful fabric apart from the use of materials such as cotton or silk cloth. While the value of the structure is generated from the forms which are prepared in such a way based on essential values. The shapes of curved lines arranged irregularly and not disconnected meet each other.

b. Value Content (Content) which can consist of the value of knowledge (cognition), the value of feeling, intuition or the unconscious man, the value of ideas, and the value of the message or the value of life (values) that can consist of the moral, social values, religious values, etc. .

In Megamendung form we can see the irregular curved lines on a regular basis from most forms of curved lines in the (smaller) and then widen out (enlarged) shows the regular harmonic motion. It could be said that this irregular curved lines that carry a moral message in human life is always changing (going up and down) and then grown out to search for identity (learning / social life of religion), and ultimately bring him into a new world to come back into the union of self after going through ups and downs (ups and downs) finally returned to its origin (sunnatullah). So that we can see form Megamendung always formed from the small arches that move increases keep coming out and eventually had to go back again into small rounds but should not be interrupted. Apart from the meaning of the philosophy that Megamendung symbolizes human life as a whole so that its form must be aligned. Judging from the production side do require that if a curved line Megamendung must meet at one point so that the next bend when giving color to the gradual process (from color to color young parents) could be easier.