The Central Highlands is a region of basaltic red soil that is easy to muddy in the rainy season, and very dusty in the dry season, so the houses of the people living here often choose the type of stilt house that is cool, high, clean. But unlike other ethnic groups living in this Central Highlands, the Ede people often live on a long boat-shaped stilt house in a matriarchal family that outsiders often say is "as long as gong ".
In the past, long houses could be hundreds of meters long for all five, six small families to live together. Nowadays there are only about 20m to 30m left. The materials used to build the house come from herbs near the living area, which are usually bamboo, wooden and thatched roofs. In recent years, the life of the people has been better, so most of the houses have been converted to corrugated iron roofs.
The Ede people often choose the north-south direction to build their houses with the intention of shielding the winds from the northeast and the southwest, and in the rainy season, they rely on their unique boat-shaped roof to enjoy their strength. hot by the sun when there is sunshine to dry the rooms.
The Ede house has two doors, the front door is for guests and men, the rear door is for women in the family. Usually in the front door of the big stilt house is built three stairs, one in the middle and two stairs on the two sides are secondary. For the wealthy, powerful houses in the village, the stairs are the steps with the steps, the ends bent forward like a boat moving on the waves with reliefs like the crescent moon or the breasts of the woman. female.
Inside the house, the house is divided into a part: the Gah is used as a place for receiving guests, worshiping, living together for the whole family and the sleeping place for unmarried son. The rest is called Ok, is the private space of the couple. This place is divided into several small chambers, in that order the first chamber from the entrance for the couple's family head; Next is the closet room which is also the closet of the youngest daughter, who inherited the family after getting married and then the girl's chamber and everything.
The floor of the Gah section is usually large and beautifully decorated. Once upon a time there was a house erected in front of the living room with a couple of straight columns in rows of what people called a lead column. This column is about 2 meters high, neatly trimmed, used to tie textile threads. Inside the floor is a pair of exposed chairs straight in two rows of pillars, also carved in the form of a new moon and the geometric patterns are traditional embroidery patterns on the traditional Ede cloth. Inside this floor, there are four main columns that divide the house into separate parts: the east column is where the guests sit, the west column is the place for gongs, gongs, the third column is the dividing column between the Gah and Ok sections. , The fourth column is the empty column where the female drum is placed. All the pillars are made of good wood available in the forest such as sandalwood, rosewood. For the rich,
The way of organizing Ede architectural works is very clear in community, but the long house, wooden chairs, the carvings on the columns are the manifestations of the unique and creative imagination of Ede compatriots in material culture.
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