EASTER ..... FERNANDA NINACURI

Easter in Ecuador and Mexico

Easter in Ecuador 

ORIGIN :

Easter is an eminently Catholic and Christian holiday and was brought to Ecuador by the Spanish conquistadors in a time of strong influence of the Catholic clergy. Easter is a "mobile" celebration, ie does not have a preset date in the annual calendar and commemorates six weeks after Carnival, in remembrance of the Biblical story of Jesus fasting for 40 days in the desert.

 FOOD :

The most important dish of Holy Week in Ecuador is a thick soup called Fanesca. The tradition is to eat the Fanesca Santos on Thursday, as the Last Supper.

They say Fanesca must carry at least 12 grains and vegetables, as they represent the 12 disciples, and that fish represents Jesus

Wind Empanadas: pasties stuffed with cottage cheese Ecuadorian and onion, then fried and sprinkled with sugar.

Sweet figs fresh figs or dried figs are cooked in spiced honey brown sugar figs are served accompanied with slices of fresh cheese or cheese.

MUSIC :

TRADITIONS  AND ACIVITIES :

Maundy Thursday religious tradition in our country is to visit 7 churches at least asking God for forgiveness of our sins.

It was considered period of penance and renewal for the whole Church, with fasting and abstinence.

This day it is also celebrated bearing palms and olive branches to church to be blessed with water during the ceremony.

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IN ECUADOR 

 IN QUITO 

  How to make ornaments in Easter 

EASTER IN  MEXICO 

ORIGIN :

The Roman Catholic Church is the Catholic Church more believers in the world, which are under the authority of the pope. Easter, according to the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, begins with Palm Sunday, when Jesus enters Jerusalem and is greeted with palm leaves, and ends with Holy Saturday. Passover begins after Holy Saturday. The following are the dates of the Gregorian calendar for 2016.

FOOD :

At this time, the protagonists of the dishes are the products of the cornfields: nopales, squash blossoms, purslane, moles, corn and beans, among others. Fish and shellfish also play a central role. Mexican cooks do wonders with vegetables and also with seafood: shrimp cakes, tamales charales or nopal, potato cakes, poblano chiles stuffed with cheese or tuna ... the list is as extensive as rich in flavors, aromas and textures.

       Food 

    

The blackcap

Seafood ceviche

MUSIC :

TRADITIONS AND  ACTIVITIES 

During Lent, many Catholics abstain from eating red meat, this period is known as waking. These days meats and sausages are replaced by delicious dishes where vegetables, legumes, fish and shellfish that Mexico produces have a leading role.

Though celebrations vary according to the customs of each region, there are certain general aspects that are similar throughout the country. In some places, the traditions of Easter are especially colorful and spectacular, both by the fervor with which people performed as folk elements that adorn them. In most are held processions with images of Christ, or passion plays.

What happens during Holy Week in Mexico is much more than a set of colorful performances and pilgrimages, is the manifestation of culture, faith and unity of a country through its traditions. The family spirit, hope and hospitality of a people reach their maximum expression in these traditions involving much of the Mexican territory.

In other cities such as San Miguel de Allende, the townspeople and hundreds of visitors themselves become the attraction when they participate in the "procession of silence". A serious atmosphere is very present in these activities during which spectators and participants reflect on the betrayal and crucifixion of Jesus.

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Fernanda's CARNIVAL

Carnival 

Ecuador and Rio the Janeiro 

Ecuador carnival 

The festival of flowers and fruits :
Origen:

Party Fruit and Flowers is one of Ecuador's most popular celebrations and takes place in Ambato, for the carnival. This feast began to be celebrated in 1951, as a way in which people celebrated their rebirth Ambato, after an earthquake destroyed the city in 1949. The Feast of Fruits and Flowers was in the beginning (after the earthquake) an agricultural fair, but in 1951 coincided with the carnival. It is so called because the players are precisely fruits and flowers are produced in abundance in the region, and this party is, somehow, the opportunity to thank the earth for its fertility, and portend good harvests

Food 

The dish par excellence of Ambato: the llapingachos. This delicacy takes potato omelet, especially as it becomes golden fried; accompanied by: handmade chorizo, whose taste has not been imitated elsewhere, fried egg, avocado, lettuce and tomato.

We also find all fruit juices and combinations not imagine indispensable alongside llapingachos.

Also taste the amazing pies morocho; delicious hornado with mote; broth "31", chicken, yahuarlocro; booklet and other specialties of our local food, yet incredibly prepared and served with all the charisma of its vendors.

Llapingachos 

Also taste the amazing pies morocho

Music 

Ambato Land of Flowers

Carnival  from Guranda 

Traditions 

Election of the Queen of Ambato

Chacarero parade Ambato

Activities 

Parade Guaranda 

                                           

Parade Teran ... Pillaro

Carnival in Rio the Janeiro

Carnival has been a massive party for centuries. The Greeks celebrated many festivals of its kind in honor of the god of wine. The Romans continued to celebrate in honor of Bacchus and during Saturnalia, where men spent an entire day in a drunken state and according to tradition, the masters and soldiers exchanged clothes. The Roman Catholic Church later adopted these celebrations until Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Christian calendar. "Entrudo" is the name of a Portuguese festival which apparently is the source of the Rio Carnival. The first dance of Carnival in Rio was held in 1840 and participants danced polkas and waltzes, as opposed to the samba, which was not introduced until 1917.

FOOD

Unquestionably the typical food of Rio de Janeiro is the feijoada, a dish of the most complete found in almost any restaurant and it is especially on Saturdays tradition. Full carioca feijoada is composed of a stew of beans (beans) black cooked with pork, bacon and sausage mainly served with white rice, farofa (toasted manioc flour), leaves couve (cabbage or spinach) finely chopped and slices of orange. It is also common to find platters that include some kind of fried meat, fried potatoes, rice, farofa and a portion simple Feijao (only baked beans without meat).

The steaks, a combination of different types of meat cooked on a grill that is usually accompanied by white rice, Feijao, farofa, fried potatoes and salad. Best to test as much as possible to be meat is to visit one of the famous rodizio type churrascarias city where spectacular buffets for various types of meat and seafood, made the coals are served.

Leão Veloso soup, a strong and tasty dish made from shrimp heads, fish, lobster and other seafood, accompanied by tomato and saffron.

Music

Samba 

                                           

                                                                            Music Rio the Janeiro



Traditions and activities 

The culmination of the modern carnival is considered the performance of the samba schools. It is a fairy spectacle of dance, preparing for a year. The luxurious costumes and mastery of dancers enchant viewers daily in Fietsa involved more than 100 schools dances. Carnival in Rio is considered the event important scale, so the organizers of the party try to make it more attractive for tourists.

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NEW YEAR ..!!!! Fernanda Ninacuri

                                                   

 NEW YEAR   .......

NEW YEAR IN ECUADOR

ORIGIN

Burning the old year has ancient history and occurs in many parts of the world, and it was in the Babylonian, Greek and Roman cultures.

Rome, worshiped with Prometheus custom of figures of men, birds and animals were burned to represent human vices.

TRADITIONS

In Ecuador parted the year ending getting older years are puppets made from old clothes or stick with newspaper it represents everything good and bad that happened to us during the year and burned at midnight and we put firecrackers or explosives and burn quite rumble and that the best things come next year and wrong fence.

The celebration of New Year is performed in all cities of Ecuador, mainly with the tradition of burning the old year or puppet, a fact that represents leaving behind the negative experiences of the past year and welcoming a new one, with the hope it's better than the last.

TRADITIONS AND FOOD

There are many more traditions like eating twelve grapes, dress in a certain color, turn your home with a suitcase if you want to travel. Finally, I believe that the burning of old is the most popular as tradition says once you start doing your old man, you must do each year for seven consecutive years, because if you stop doing bad luck come into your life, the tradition of burning old also, the idea that by doing these burning all the bad things that happened that year to the new year, hoping for better days.

Finished years old burn proceed to sit the whole family for dinner or baked turkey baking Piglet and wine or champagne to toast the new year. In this way it represents what the new year we will not miss the food in abundance, but not all households Not so with good bread is happy while we are in union with the family.

MUSIC NEW YEAR

NEW YEAR IN CHINA

In this festival, which has a history of almost four thousand years, welcoming spring occurs. From that day, the farmers are prepared for sowing and for Chinese represents the effective start of a new year.

While in the West the year begins on January 1, in China the 'Nian' (year) starts near the end of January or early February, thus varying based on the traditional calendar, known as 'Moon' or setting '

The Chinese lunar calendar incorporates the lunar cycle and the position of the sun. According to legend, the calendar goes back to 2600 BC, when the Yellow Emperor, Shih Huang Di, began the first cycle of the Chinese zodiac and appointed an animal to represent each year in the cycle of 12 years.

TRADITIONS

It is a period full of celebrations, the New Year's Day begins and ends with the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first month. Family visits, special meals and fireworks happen. Everyone celebrates, especially during the first three days of the festival.

To receive the "Spring Festival" people clean their homes with old brooms, which is then thrown away. Hang red banners with poetic verses on their doors, decorated with Chinese New Year paintings on the walls and red lanterns. Fireworks and firecrackers are released, hoping to ward off bad luck and bring prosperity. Children receive money from family and tradition close the remaining tasks facing the new year, so it is important to pay debts.

FOOD 

The first day of the beginning of the year is traditionally not eat meat for a long, full life. It is a way to welcome the gods of heaven and earth. That day is the big day Dragon Dance, highlight of the Spring Festival is also known as this year again.The first day of the beginning of the year is traditionally not eat meat for a long, full life. It is a way to welcome the gods of heaven and earth. That day is the big day Dragon Dance, highlight of the Spring Festival also known as the New Year.

All meals must be prepared Andes the new year as KNIVES SAVE should be short but a new year.

Long noodles, for long life and not the courts!

Shrimp for Abundance

Long Green Vegetables for a Green Year and Good Harvest

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Fernanda Ninacuri ...CHRISTMAST ...

 CHRISTMAST

Christimas is undoubtedly the most important festival of western culture,including Ecuador .Originated in commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazaret.

                                                    CHRISTMAST IN ECUADOR

For being a Catholic country Ecuador , a very special activity is the develpment of birth or Bethlem,and Prayer Novena of Baby Jesus that takes place every night from December 16 .

Midnight Mass 

Christmas Midnight Mass is celebrated in this way on Christmas day and the commemoration of the birth of  Jesus is received.It is celebrate on December 24 .Where it is reported on in the birth of Jesus.

The past of the Child 

It is a very old tradition whose overall aim is to worship the birth of the child Jesus through processions .

Christmas tree

He is adorned with light bulbs,figures and fake snow  that makes it with cotton or selling spray .I recent years trying to ban this is that trees that aere used are natural because in December the Carolina park is the largest of Quito is full of trees and it is a shame that nature is destroyed and so even for a tradition .

 Food for christmast
Christmas meals are :
Pristine
Chicken soup
Turkey
Cinnamon

 CHRISTMAS IS CELEBRATED IN MEXICO

Approximately on December 16 posadas are celebrated the suffering that passed the Virgin and Joseph ,when Jeeking an inn Road Bethlehem to give birth to the child is shown

Come to the inn is a piñata that have broken with blows of a cane and wearing a blind fold .
The piñata represents sin .Then hit with the stick represents the strength that God allows , man to kill sin .The person wearing the blind fold as a representation of our walk blindly in to the world Up on breaking the piñata candy foll, as a representation of the awards that God gives us become sin .

 On 24 and 25 December are celebrated by Mexicans in atraditional way.Family Gather for lunch and dinner ,sing carols ,celebrate the birth af Christ.

MERRY CHRISTMAST  !!!

    CAROL