The Ancient Maritime Silk Road and Visual Language of the Temple of Cu An Kiong in Lasem, Central Java, Indonesia

Pandanwangi, Ariesa and Listiani, Wanda and Yang , Qiaoqiang (2017) The Ancient Maritime Silk Road and Visual Language of the Temple of Cu An Kiong in Lasem, Central Java, Indonesia. In: The Maritime Silk Road: Connectivity and Benefit-Sharing between China and Southeast Asia, 16-19 November 2017.

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Abstract

Lasem is located in the coast between Rembang-Central Java and Tuban-East Java. Lasem and China have the same situation. Along the street of the residence, the facades of the building are decorated by writing or ornaments from Fujian and Guangdong. The Lasem community is very strong in diversity, it is evidenced that those who come from different religions help each other when celebrating religious holidays. In addition, the houses inhabited in the boarding school or 'pesantren' environment are also in Chinese style. At the entrance of the house, there are Chinese characters. Among the lines of residence, there is Cu An Kiong temple filled with ornament of flora, fauna and also figure. Ornaments can be found from the entrance gate to the inside of the room. The purpose of this study is to reveal the visual language of these ornaments. Ornaments on the temple are not only located at the entrance but also on the roof of the temple. Shape of the ornament has special characteristic so that this object can be used as to strengthen maritime arts and heritage city methods. This research uses qualitative approach with visual ethnography method. This research explains the method of typical LASEM (language, aesthetic, symbol, element, and moment) to explain the meaning of signification of decoration in the Cu An Kiong Temple in Lasem.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Lasem, maritime, temple, visual language
Subjects: N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Depositing User: Perpustakaan Maranatha
Date Deposited: 25 Jan 2018 04:08
Last Modified: 25 Jan 2018 04:08
URI: http://repository.maranatha.edu/id/eprint/23826

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