There are several versions of the traditional events ‘Baratan’ in the village Purwogondo, Sub District Kalinyamatan, Jepara, as told Riwayatul Mahya, village officials. Among other things, routine annual event is always commemorated every mid-Sha'ban (Ruwah) is related to the legend of Emperor Hadlirin, husband of Queen Kalinyamat (Retno Kencono), daughter of the Sultan who is also Duke Trenggono Jepara (1549-1579).
According to the story, the Sultan Raden Hadlirin formerly Thoyyib. Because his presence on Jepara, he was nicknamed Sultan Hadlirin (Arabic: hadlara: attend, arrive). He left China and went wandering. In his wanderings he came in Jepara.
Once gain Retno Kencono, he accompanied the Queen as the Duke of Jepara. It is the habit of the old days, travelers, especially the husband of a retainer, Sultan Hadlirin horseback accompanied by his bodyguards in a journey of war. Once he arrived in the village of Purwogondo (now in the central district Kalinyamatan). Suddenly a host horse gallop away, so that his bodyguards had lost track of his master. Then he searched the village use impes lights (lanterns), a type of traditional lamp oil lamp with oil fuel. Although the evening, then wind the night was very friendly, almost no wind that usually blows hard from the west(Barat). Sultan Hadlirin eventually be found only by using the traditional lamp.
By society, then it became a tradition preserved called Baratan from (barat) western word (meaning there was no wind from the west in search of Sultan Hadlirin). The second version, as Mahya, according to the custom event Baratan, that was the way scholars in the past, filled of Sha'ban virtue.
Baratan comes from the Arabic word baraatan (free) from sin. They warned the way together with the present safety of mace, meals of sticky rice (puli). The word mace said to have originated from the Arabic 'afwu Lii (forgive me). Because the event was meant to beg forgiveness from Allah SWT to be free from sin
