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Pada hari gawai wen bersama keluarga begawai di Kampung Giam bauh, jalan puncak borneo sarawak.Kaum bidayuh mendiami kawasan barat daya Sarawak, terutamanya Bahagian Serian, Kuching dan di barat Kalimantan. Mereka dipercayai berasal dari pergunungan Penrissen Sarawak berdasarkan teori penghijrahan penduduk pertama di pulau Borneo (Deep Skull) yang ditemui di Sarawak, Malaysia. Mereka terdiri daripada lima pecahan etnik iaitu:
Selakau/Lara (Daerah Lundu)
Jagoi/Singai (Daerah Bau)
Biatah (Daerah Kecil Padawan)
Bukar/Sadong (Daerah Serian)[1]
Kuching Tengah / Bidayuh Baru / Bidayuh Moden (Kawasan Tengah Antara Padawan Dengan Bau)
Kampung Giam is right off the edge of the Penrissen road. It is also pretty nearby to Kampung Git and Kampung Benuk. The villages of Kampung Giam Lama are connected by a long suspension bridge and they both share a same ancestral root. The Giam villages have their own unique attractions to wow visitors that include a rich cultural heritage, a complex cave system, a series of gushing rapids, as well as its own waterfall.
Kampung Giam Lama
In the 1900s, a group of people from Bung Ko, joined by another group from Sebayat/Gigi formed the village “Kampung Boyan“. However, in the late 1930s, many women died at labor due to the lack of medicine. Seeing this, the Tok Kampung or village chief brought the villagers out and settled at Giam river. There they built a new longhouse and a Ceremonial House. The name Giam actually derived from the Bidayuh word for rapids.
The second White Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Brooke actually built a bunga a bungalow at the top of a small hill near Kampung Giam which was dismantled prior to the Japanese invasion in 1941 by the villagers. In 1990 the longhouse was finally dismantled to give way to individual houses.
Kampung Giam Baru
The name of the village basically mean new Giam village. This is due to the fact that in 1976, a huge flood broke out in Kampung Giam and a lot of low-lying houses were submerged. Soneg anak Sorat then led the affected households to Pedu hill and the area beside Jalan Penrissen. Together they formed the new Giam village.
1. The magnificent Giam river
This Giam River is small stream that is also connected directly with the big Left Sarawak River. It brings so much difference in water temperature; very cold and clear water in Giam River compared to the water in Sarawak River.
Now that a dam is located upstream of Sarawak River, the water in Sarawak River can be very murky and dirty once they release the sediments from the dam.
Credit to this website/blog: mybackyardtour.com/stories-abo...
Hari Gawai Dayak merupakan pesta tahunan yang disambut oleh orang Dayak di Sarawak, Malaysia dan Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia pada 31 Mei dan 1 Jun. Pesta ini merupakan cuti umum di Sarawak dan majlis keagamaan dan sosial yang diiktiraf sejak 1957.
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Hari Gawai Dayak merupakan pesta tahunan yang disambut oleh orang Dayak di Sarawak, Malaysia dan Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia pada 31 Mei dan 1 Jun. Pesta ini merupakan cuti umum di Sarawak dan majlis keagamaan dan sosial yang diiktiraf sejak 1957.
Hari Gawai Dayak merupakan konsep yang dibawa oleh penerbit radio, Tan Kingsley dan Owen Liang daripada komuniti Dayak. Kerajaan kolonial British enggan mengiktiraf Hari Dayak sehingga 1962. Mereka hanya memanggilnya sebagai "Hari Sarawak" dengan melibatkan semua orang Sarawak sebagai hari kebangsaaan, tanpa mengira asal etnik.
Pada 1 Jun 1963, Datuk Michael Buma, anak jati Betong, menganjurkan sambutan Hari Gawai Dayak yang pertama di rumahnya di Siol Kandis, Kuching. [1] Pada 25 September 1964, Hari Sarawak telah diwartakan sebagai cuti umum bagi memaklumkan pembentukan Persekutuan Malaysia. Cuti umum ini mula disambut pada 1 Jun 1965 dan menjadi simbol perpaduan, hasrat dan harapan komuniti Dayak. Pesta ini disambut sebagai hari kesyukuran atas hasil tuaian yang melimpah-ruah dan masa untuk merancang musim penanaman yang baru.
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