Makanan Adat pada Upacara Perkawinan di Desa Sungai Jambu Kecamatan Kayu Aro Kabupaten Kerinci Propinsi Jambi

This research is grounded on the lack of people's knowledge about traditional food,food serving equipment and food arrangement technique, and mean of food tradition. Thisresearch is purposed to: (1) describe types of Central Java's traditional food, (2) describethe meaning of traditional food, (3) describe food's serving equipment, and (4) describefood arrangement technique in traditional wedding ceremony of Central Java in SungaiJambu village. The type of research is qualitative research, and object of research istraditional food for wedding ceremony of Central Java. Data collected by snow ballsampling technique. Data analyzing include reduction, display, and verification ofconclusion.Results come from this research show that wedding ceremonies in SungaiJambu village had been contaminated by outside culture, such as performance stage, food,equipments, and arrangement technique, so the ceremonies is not as Central Java native'sceremony. Therefore, it is important to get elder and young generation to take a role inmaintaining the culture and preventing from the loss and outside culture's influence