Serious It's Official! Batik Originates From Chinkland! Indon Bumi Supremacists Upset!

[JohnTan]

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — Indonesians are fuming on Twitter over a video clip that claimed batik as a traditional Chinese craft.

The 49-second clip produced by China’s Xinhua News Agency described batik as a traditional craft practiced by ethnic minorities in the provinces of Guizhou and Yunan in southwestern China.

Batik is a traditional textile made using wax-resist dyeing technique that is synonymous to the cultures of nations in the Nusantara region such as Indonesia and Malaysia.

The clip which has garnered over 237,000 views and 1,800 retweets so far, received a barrage of disapproval from Indonesians.

“Batik is traditionally from Indonesia, not China. This is so wrong,” one user tweeted back.

“Why used the word batik instead of an original Chinese word?” another commented.



Indonesian batik, which has roots in Java, was declared an intangible cultural heritage by Unesco in 2009.

This came after a heated cultural feud between the republic and neighbouring Malaysia after many Indonesians alleged that batik techniques were stolen by Malaysians.

Xinhua is China’s official state-run news agency and is the largest and most influential media organisation in the country.

https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/indonesians-rage-twitter-chinese-state-044645635.html

 

[Pinkieslut]

Austronesian races came from Southern china with arts such as batik, tattooing, blackened teeth.

 

[laksaboy]

The 49-second clip produced by China’s Xinhua News Agency described batik as a traditional craft practiced by ethnic minorities in the provinces of Guizhou and Yunan in southwestern China.

LOL, Chicom propaganda to stir up patriotic sentiments among the Tiongs, even though their country is falling apart now.

No need to be upset, just think of China as a rogue regime not unlike Iran or North Korea.

 

[Pinkieslut]

History[edit]

Wax-resist dyed textile from Niya (Tarim Basin), China

Pattern of clothes of 13th century East Javanese Prajnaparamita statue resembles batik
Wax resist dyeing of fabric is an ancient art form. It already existed in Egypt in the 4th century BC, where it was used to wrap mummies; linen was soaked in wax, and scratched using a stylus. In Asia, the technique was practised in China during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD), and in Japan during the Nara Period (645–794 AD). In Africa it was originally practised by the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, Soninke and Wolof in Senegal.[10]These African version however, uses cassava starch or rice paste, or m&d as a resist instead of beeswax.[11]

The art of batik is most highly developed in the island of Java in Indonesia. In Java, all the materials for the process are readily available – cotton and beeswax and plants from which different vegetable dyes are made.[12] Indonesian batik predates written records: G. P. Rouffaer argues that the technique might have been introduced during the 6th or 7th century from India or Sri Lanka.[10] On the other hand, the Dutch archaeologist J.L.A. Brandes and the Indonesian archaeologist F.A. Sutjipto believe Indonesian batik is a native tradition, since several regions in Indonesia such as Toraja, Flores, and Halmaherawhich were not directly influenced by Hinduism, have attested batik making tradition as well.[13]

 

[A Singaporean]

Admiral Cheng Ho brought this art to Malaysia and Indonesia. You don't expect m&ds to have such talent.