BA RANUP ( membawa sirih)

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Ba Ranup or carrying betel is a sacred tradition in Acehnese custom when carrying out a marriage procession. This habit has been maintained from generation to generation. Before Baubub, the family will first send a messenger called seulangke to take care of the matchmaking. If always he has got the girl in question, then he will first review the status of the girl. If no one has, then he will convey his intention to propose to the girl. On the agreed day, a group of elders from the male party came to the house of the girl's parents, bringing betel (ba Ranub) to strengthen the bond.

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In the Ba Ranub procession, the betel used is selected betel. Then the betel leaf was used to make the crown which became the meukutop kublik, a form of the kublik of Sultan Iskandar Muda. How to arrange it is easy, it takes special skills. First it takes banana shoots about 100 centimeters in length to be placed in the legged cerana. The banana stem is used as a place for sticking betel leaves in a circle to form a meukutop kublik. To make it more interesting, it usually involves hanging betel nuts that have been cut into small pieces, gambier, lime and clove flowers wrapped in colorful paper. One more sugi tobacco.

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In Acehnese customs, eating betel is a common practice for Acehnese people. Eating betel is incomplete if you don't add all the knick-knacks listed above. Other equipment when ba ranub is batee ranub or legless cerana filled with seeds. Such as rice seeds, cucumber, pumpkin, and turmeric. In the middle of the grain, it is placed in a gold ring or necklace as a dowry. Furthermore, the cerana was wrapped in a yellow cloth.