Tajen [ Cock fights ]

Cockfights, which in Balinese are known as tajen, "megecelan" or "ngadu", are required at temple and purification (mecaru) ceremonies. No one knows when they started. The Tabuh Rah ritual to expel evil spirits always has a cockfight to spill the blood. Tabuh Rah literally means pouring blood.

Tajen usually been associated often associated with religious ceremonies of red drum, but cockfighting chicken is actually very far away with percussion core The red, sheathed in a series of religious ceremonies, the tradition of this cockfight is actually a gambling community because of the red drum there is no element of gambling (metoh) in it, but in Tajen all those actors who are in the area Tajen do gambling with gambling almost reached nominal value tens of millions every time the fighting cock fight in the arena tajen.