SEJARAH TRADISI TARI ZAPIN API DI DESA TANJUNG MEDANG KECAMATAN RUPAT UTARA KABUPATEN BENGKALIS

Abstract

Abstract: The History of the Zapin Dance of Fire, started before the Zapin Api was named Zapin Api. Dance of Fire starts from the existence of the Akit Tribe who came from Malacca to do Bele Kampong (guard the village). To integrate the four elements of life in the fire, water, soil and wind. But after the influence of Islam into the island Rupat, fire dance changed into a dance that uses Zapin music with the reason the spreaders of Islam in Rupat Island make Zapin Api dance as a medium of spreading of Islam that many mengadung puja praise of the Prophet, research method using a qualitative approach , a type of study whose findings were not obtained through statistical procedures or other forms of calculation. The type of research is field research, ie research conducted with a direct jump to explore and examine the data pertaining to the title. While the data collection technique in this research is done by using two methods, namely: interview and documentation study. The results showed that the fire zapin dance is one of the local culture of Rupat Island.
Keywords: Zapin Api, Local Culture, Rupat Utara Bengkalis