Reasons and justification on why it should be preserved and is of

significance to the local community.

Every teacher and parent knows that whatever we wish to pass down to the next
generation is worth preserving. Culture heritage is anything that is considered important enough
to be passed on to the future generations. Cultural heritage of each of the races in Malaysia has
a very high value and is unique. It is an identity that can be introduced to the world. Some may
think traditions are old-fashioned and no longer relevant, and that they are not important during
these modern times. Perhaps for some, they are not that important but for others, exploring
cultural heritage offers a prosperous variety of benefits. It is because cultural heritage assert
our identity as a people because it creates a comprehensive framework for the preservation of
cultural heritage. Culture and its heritage show and shape values, beliefs, and aspirations,
through defining a people’s national identity.

It is important to preserve our cultural heritage, because it keeps our integrity as a people.
Cultural heritage can provide an unconscious sense of unity and belonging within a group and
allows us to better understand previous generations and the history of where we come from.
Some are fighting to preserve our environment, some struggle to preserve their language, some
are risking their lives to preserve freedom of belief but least of the people fighting to preserve
the food just because it have been forgotten and does not fulfil the modern people taste.

For instance this kuih cengkaruk has been forgotten almost all Malay communities in
Malacca and Malaysia. The reasons why the kuih need to be preserve because we can learned
the hardship of our ancestor throughout those times. They make the kuih from the left over rice
so that they did not waste any food that they have because those times it is hard to have a single
bite for the common people. So, from those reason the people this days can be more thankful
because nowadays the resources of food are more than enough to fill up our stomach. When
knowing the step of making this kuih, we can learned the patience and the creativity of our
ancestor because this kuih seems easy to make but in reality it took a lot of times and energy to
just prepare the ingredient not doing the kuih yet.