Ujungan is a ritualistic tradition in asking for rain in central and eastern Java. This tradition is performed when the dry season is long. Through this ritual, men are chosen to display each other's strength of atosing balung, wuleding kulit ( kerasnya tulang, kuatnya kulit) coupled with aesthetic action. At first glance, Ujungan is look like a hard sport because it is using a stick to beat his opponent on his thigh down. The more blood that goes out the quicker it starts to rain. But underneath the rigorous performing of the ritual, there was a message of peace, which was never to hurt if you didn't want to be hurt. Ujungan is not do every year, but is performed only when long dry season or until mangsa kapat, to a peak in mangsa kalima, there is no rain.
In jombang, the Ujungan dance is do in the dry season. The purpose of the tradition is in an effort to ask the Lord for rain. The same as those in probolinggo, the dancer who was to be flogged did so without being told what to do but voluntarily. Over time, the Ujungan dance, which was originally used as a means for requesting rain, was now performed only as an art and ordinary entertainment show. The average, dancer gets a few tens of thousands of rupiah for once perform.
In the show, there's no provision for who wins and who loses. The game ends when the two squabbled dancers have had enough.
The Ujungan tradition begins with the events of the people of the village of gumelem wetan, Susukan Sub-District, about the 1813th. The origin of the ujungan tradition grew when the village of gumelem wetan ( at that time is Padukuhan Karang tiris) was in a very long dry season, and as a result, more than a few farmers were constantly fighting over water for the rice fields or fields. The way to water the rice fields in rotation was no longer honored by farmers.
On Friday kliwon, when it was in a water source that two farmers were fighting over water to irrigate the rice field, Ki Singakerti that now the argument couldn't resolve the difference, because the incontinent farmers didn't want peace. Ki Singakerti gave each of these two a Rasihe Wood to hit each other. Events long enough to cause the two farmers to bleed wounds and much blood. Soon, the rain came and I found that it was very heavy rain
The two farmers woke up from the things they had done, and immediately they apologized to each other and offered gratitude for the presence of almighty god who had given the gift of rain. Plants can flourish again, and paddy fields and farmers can be prepared to obtain results in order to sustain their lives. The "sagical" event between the two farmers, by a figure in the coordinating of the Karang Tiris, which is Ki Singakerti and the Demang in Gumelem then and its farmers, was both a warning or momentum that has finally, to this day, been a Mujung tradition.
