Festivals of Philippines|Philippines Festivals
Philippines Festivals, New
Year Day begins with a bang on the very first
day of the year.
Historical Background - In the provinces people use home made
bamboo cannons to shoot the old year out of and the
New Year into their modest live.
In the cities, New
Year is celebrated with fireworks and hooting horns.
Procession of the Black Nazarene
is celebrated when thousands of men parade through the
streets with the life-size statue of the Nazarene which
dates from the 17th century.
Women can watch, but they
cannot join. The event draws massive crowds, since touching
the statue is supposed to produce astounding effects.
Traditions of Philippines - The Moriones festival is celebrated
when M arinduque Crowds of town people dress up as a
Roman legionaries and figures from the Bible.
Historical Background - The masks
and helmet called moriones are brought out and the bloody
melodrama of how Jesus Christ was crucified begins.
Pahiyas Festival is celebrated in
Lucban, border of Quezon Province.
This festival is
celebrated in honor of San Isidro where the town is
colorfully festooned using fruits, vegetables, and flowers,
with Chinese lanterns and Kipping.
Philippines Festivals - Flores de Mayo is a gentle and esthetically
pleasing fiesta which lasts for four week long.
Every
day, little girls in festive costume present fresh flowers
to the Virgin Mary in church and at the end of the month
the May festival culminates in processions and parades.
Traditions of Philippines, Besides these traditional festivals, Christmas is celebrated
with great enthusiasm all over Philippines.
The
culture, customs and traditions of Philippines are deeply
influenced by its colonized past.
Philippines Culture, The Spanish colonization
of the Philippines lasted for more than 350 years, thus
there is a significant presence of Spanish and Mexican
influence in many facets of the Filipino culture.
The
Filipino language, more commonly known as Tagalog, contains
many borrowed Spanish words.
Most of the present celebrated
religious traditions are a mix of Christian, Pagan and
other local religious rites.
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