The Meugang tradition has been practiced since hundreds of years ago in Aceh. Meugang started since the Kingdom of Aceh.
Every Meugang celebration, the whole family or household cooks meat and eaten by the whole house. Abstinence if the family does not cook meat on the day Meugang.Meugang has a religious value because it is done in the holy days of Muslims. Acehnese people believe that the livelihood sought for 11 months must be grateful in the form of Meugang tradition.
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and today is meugang day in aceh ... because want to welcome holy month of ramadhan.
Hari Meugang also has become a place to build kinship relationship in Islamic context. Therefore, not a few on the day meugang, Aceh residents who wander to other places back home to enjoy the meugang meat cooking the mother's beloved, who has been waiting for the return of the child who is studying or other in the overseas