Festivals

INTRODUCTION
1. Have been organized for thousands of years
  1. Some particular tradition
    2. religious or based on folklore
  2. Entertainment
    1. Music
    2. Dance
HISTORY
1. Greeks and Romans celebrated festivals
  1. political processes
  2. social organization.
    1. Saturnalia
      1. honor of god Saturn.
        sacrifice
2. agricultural ceremonies
  1. good harvest
Holi, India
1. oldest Indian festivals
  1. symbol of good over evil,
    1. the arrival of spring and the end of winter
    2. Festival of Colors
      2. starting in the evening of a Full Moon Day
        February or March
        religious rituals
Rio de Janeiro Carnival, Brazil
1. The biggest carnival in the world,1723.
  1. Typical parade
    2. Samba. African traditions
      1. Queen of the Carnival
Pingxi Lantern Festival, Taiwan
1. 1990 young festival
  1. fifteenth day of the first month
    1. lunar calendar
      1. End of the Chinese New Year
      2. thousands of sky lanterns light
        to ward off the evil and let people know the town is safe
        portray images of historical figures or a specific theme
2. 1. Inspired by traditional folklore
La Tomatina, Spain
1. The biggest tomato fight
  1. 1. every year on the last Wednesday of August in Bunol
      1. event started by accident
        by youngsters
        They grabbed some tomatoes from a nearby stall
        them at one of the giant figures
        The next year, these same young people came back with their own tomatoes
  2. 1945

Next up

Festivals

Description

Resource summary

Media attachments

Similar

	Created by HEIDY REY about 2 years ago