Celebrating The Harvest Festival 2011

Pesta Kaamatan 2011

Welcome to the month of May...The most important festival of the Kadazans and Dusun in the month of May is the Kaamatan or harvest festival, where the spirit of the paddy is honoured after a year's harvest. This takes place in May, and the two last days of the month are public holidays throughout Sabah. During the celebration, the most celebrated event is the crowning of the 'unduk ngadau' or harvest queen, where native Kadazandusuns girls throughout the state compete for the coveted crown. The beauty pageant is held to commemorate the spirit of 'Huminodon', a mythological character of unparalleled beauty said to have given her life in exchange for a bountiful harvest for her community..Wikipedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadazan

The People of Sabah is celebrating the Harvest Festival after finishing their work at the paddy field and it is a yearly celebration for The Dusun, Kadazan and Murut in Sabah. These three ethnic is under the same culture and many more ethnic in the cluster of Dusun such as the Rungus, Tobilung, Liwan, Lotud, Sungai and etc. This people share the same culture and celebrating the same festival and united under the same philosophy. Should it be okay that no ethnic races is Sabah but all the people in Sabah called SABAHAN?

The Harvest Festival is celebrated more than 500 years ago after a large number of Kadazan Dusun Murut migrate from the mainland of china to The Philippine and landed at Borneo. The history told that the origin of the KadazanDusunMururt is from the main land of north China, Mongolia. This is not proven yet but according to my friend sources who once visited Mongolia last month, the culture between this two nation is almost the same. What we have in Sabah also same in Mongolia in the perspective of culture. There are several hundred of small ethnic in Sabah and are united under this festival, Pesta Kaamatan but with different way of celebrating it. From Kudat to Lon Pasia to Kinabatangan to Sandakan and not forgetting Kunak, Semporna, Lahad Datu and Tawau also celebrating this festival. People need a time of peacefulness to enjoy and relax and celebrate our festival.

The grand opening for Pesta Kaamatan 2011 state level is launch yesterday at Dewan Tun Hamdan Tamparuli Sabah by Chief Minister Of Sabah together with TYT and our Huguon Siou Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan. Such a splending ceremony that attracted more the 12,000 people from all over Sabah and quite number tourist. The city is full and jammed. What a wonderful view with crowded people. The main events is the beauty peagent Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan competition. The winner is from Tuaran and Runner Up is from Tamparuli. You can search through the Google and type " Pesta Kaamatan 2011 "  and your search that particular website and get more information regarding to this events.

" Harvest Festival at Dewan Tun Hamdan Tamparuli Sabah " - Click Here For More Photo.

Article Post By: Sabah Todays Admin

Sources: www.tamparulisabah.com, Melvin Jr John Baptist Facebook.

Picture: Melvin Jr John Baptist.