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Selapanan, commemorate Weton Baby

In Javanese culture, the birth of a child to the human world, in addition to a gift which is very large, also has a particular meaning. Therefore, the baby until the baby is born; the people have some Java ceremony customary to welcome the birth of the baby. A ceremony, among other is mitoni, ceremonies mendhem ari-ari (placenta), brokohan, (puputan) blowing ceremony, sepasaran and selapanan.
Selapanan made 35 days after the birth of a baby. In the days to 35, the day the baby is born will be repeated again. For example, a baby who was born on Sunday, Pon (weton its day), then this selapanan Day will fall on Wednesday Pon again. In the Javanese calendar, which amounted to 5 (Wage, Pahing, Pon, Kliwon, Legi) will meet on the day with 35 days in the Christian calendar, amounting to 7 days. Logikanya, to 35 days, they will meet a number of multiplier 5 and 7. Outside the logic that, selapanan have a very strong meaning for the life of the baby. Returning Weton baby to its day, worthy of celebration such as birthdays. However selapanan primarily made up happily as the form and the birth of a baby's health.
The first in a series conducted selapanan is a haircut or parasan. Hairdressing first made by the father and the mother of a baby, and then followed by elder’s baby. Its rules in this section, the baby's hair cut-out. Cut the hair is done to get the baby's hair is really clean, believed the baby's hair is a gift from the native born, which is still exposed to water fetal. Other reason is that the baby's hair can grow it, so the baby's hair at least 3 times as much as made so bald. However, in the tradition of this piece of hair, some people are afraid to clean out the baby; the hair-cutting is done only as needed, not in barren, only to symbolistation.
After a haircut, nails done cutting the baby. In this series, made reading prayers for the safety and good of the baby and her family. Hair-cutting ceremony was conducted after the baby's time Maghrib prayers, and attended by family, relatives, and the nearest neighbor, and prayer leaders.
Selapanan events conducted in the atmosphere as possible. Day afternoon, before cutting hair, people usually celebrate selapanan make bancaan distributed to the relatives and children in around where. Bancaan the value so that the baby can share the happiness of people in the surrounding areas.
The food must have a package in bancaan, the white rice and gudangan, which is distributed in pincuk (plates of leaves) from banana leaves. According Mardzuki, an ustadz who frequently pray selapanan event, vegetables used to make gudangan, it is odd number, because the confidence in, the number is odd luck. Gudangan also equipped with a snippet of boiled egg or eggs pindang, eggs, this represents the beginning, the origin of life. In addition, some vegetables are also considered to contain a specific meaning, such as long beans, baby so long age, and spinach, that the baby can rest of his life.

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