CHRISTMAS AND TRADITIONS IN MEXICO
December 1, 2009
Category: Just For Fun
Christmas is a religious holiday among traditional families.
Christmas means the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. To prepare for that day when we celebrate His birth symbolically, we Inns. These inns are a "Novena" or nine days before Christmas Eve, which is 24 December.
Las Posadas is a performance of the hardship that passed San Jose and the Virgin Mary to find lodging or shelter on their journey to Bethlehem to meet the Census according to the Scriptures. In Spanish we call them "Saints Pilgrim Joseph and Mary." Each family takes turns in a neighborhood one night and celebrated with an inn at home, begin and end on December 16 to 24 on Christmas Eve.
In each house there is a birth. The hosts represent restaurateurs and local children and adults, representing "The Pilgrims" who ask for shelter with a simple song. All carry lighted candles in their hands and are chosen for four adoloscentes charged to the Pilgrims, two small statues of St. Joseph pulling a donkey on which is mounted aside the Virgin Mary. The procession is guided by a candle inside a "lantern", which is like an accordion colored paper with an open top and a candle inside.
The Pilgrims ask for lodging in three differents houses but only the third they will enter. This is the home to which corresponds the inn that night. When caterers allow them to spend, the group of guests comes into the home and kneels around the Nativity and pray the Rosary. The Rosary is a Catholic prayer consisting of 50 Hail Marys, five Our Fathers, 5 Glory, and the Litany, which is a series of praises to the Virgin Mary, also well sung traditional Christmas songs like Silent Night, in Spanish of course!
After all these prayers, followed by the party for the children. They celebrated with a Piñata that is full of peanuts (groundnuts), oranges, tangerines, sugar canes, and sometimes wrapped candy. Of course, there are songs to sing while the child in turn tries to break the piñata with a stick and blindfolded.
Although the Piñata is a native of Italy, has become a Mexican tradition for any kind of celebration in which children are present. The Piñata was done with a bucket of mud and decorated with crepe paper of different colors. Today, piñatas are made of cardboard and paper mache and decorated with crepe paper. This change was made to prevent children from cutting your hands when thrown to the ground to pick fruits and sweets to break the Piñata as broken pieces of clay were dangerous. There are all kinds of designs, in addition to the star, which is the traditional Christmas piñata.
For adults there is always "Punch with Bite" is a hot drink made with seasonal fruit with cinnamon sticks and a little brandy (rum, tequila, mezcal, cognac, sherry, etc.). A good substitute in Ohio is the apple cider with fruit, with no "bite".
On Christmas Eve, December 24, all go to the Christmas Eve Mass is at 12 or midnight. After Mass, everyone goes to their respective homes for Christmas dinner with his family and any friend who lacks family is always welcome to participate in the celebration, but more importantly, put the baby Jesus in the manger at Birth.
The gifts are not received at Christmas because Christmas is the celebration of the Nativity of Our Savior.
The New Year's Eve, there is a Midnight Mass is celebrated at midnight as well. Some families choose to go to church in the evening to give thanks for all the blessings received during the year.
The celebration in which children receive toys is not until January 6, "Twelfth Night" or the Three Kings. Were the Magi who brought him gifts to baby Jesus, therefore, it is they who bring gifts to boys and girls have been good. Children put their shoes near the window so that the Magi's gift put in your shoe. If the gift is larger than the shoe, then put him next. Children receive a pair of shoes (shoes) again as a gift.
Kings Day is celebrated with a lunch consisting of hot chocolate and Rosca de Reyes The picnic takes place between 5 and 7 pm and not a heavy meal, but something like the equivalent to "High Tea ".
Rosca de Reyes is a wreath-shaped bread that is made with many eggs and is very large, covered with candied fruit and sugar on top, but inside is a ceramic figurine depicting the baby Jesus. The person who gets the piece of bread with the figurine, has to be the Godfather or Godmother of the Child Jesus on the day of Candlemas on February 2.
The Candlemas Day is the day of Light, the Day of Purification. That day is collected birth with a party organized by the person who took the baby Jesus in the Rosca de Reyes. This person is responsible for the Ropón make the Baby Jesus. It is customary to celebrate the day with a dinner with tamales. (Tamales are a typical dish from Mexico that is made with corn dough and filled with meat sauce or raisins and add sugar to make candy and wrapped in corn leaves).
Today, these traditions have been modified. For example, the inns are festivals celebrated in different houses nine days before Christmas, and are simply secular holidays. Also, the influence of Free Trade Agreement known as NAFTA, now Christmas is celebrated in the style of the United States between the wealthy, with Santa Claus and all the American traditions with their dishes and gifts. Other people take vacations to go skiing in the United States or Europe, or travel to tourist sites in Mexico.
All educational institutions have vacation for three weeks and not return to classes until after January 6. Also, government offices and departments are closed during those two weeks.
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