Tradiciones - Blog Posts
Cada 31 de Diciembre del año en las calles y semáforos de las colonias del puerto de Veracruz se llena de personas disfrazadas con el atuendo característico “El Viejo”, 🧓 mientras cantan y bailan para despedir el año a cambio de una moneda. Las bocinas o instrumentos musicales repiten la misma melodía que resuena y atrae las miradas de las personas.
“Una limosna para este pobre viejo
Una limosna para este pobre viejo
Que ha dejado hijos
Que ha dejado hijos
Para el año nuevo”
La Rama Veracruzana
Es una tradición navideña que se celebra en la costa del estado de Veracruz
Consiste en llevar una rama adornada similar a un árbol de navidad con papel picado, farolillos, cadenas de papel, escarcha de colores, mechones de papel cortado, u otros adornos.
los participantes van de casa en casa cantando coplas navideñas y pidiendo aguinaldos.
Se realiza entre el 16 y 24 de Diciembre en los cuales se pide aguinaldos(Dinero),dulces, frutas,etc.
La letra de la Canción llamada la Rama .
Hola buenas noches, ya estamos aquí
aquí está la rama que les prometí
que les prometí venir a cantar
pero mi aguinaldo me tienen que dar
me tienen que dar con mucho cariño
como se lo dieron los reyes al niño
los reyes al niño le dieron regalos
y usted señorita me da mi aguinaldo."
"Buenas noches damas
buenos caballeros,
a cantar venimos
al Rey de los Cielos".
(Estribillo)
Naranjas y limas,
limas y limones,
más linda es la virgen
que todas las flores".
"En un portalito de cal y arena,
nació Jesucristo
por la Noche Buena".
"Venimos de lejos,
a traerte la Rama,
recíbela atento,
hoy y mañana".
"Abre la puerta, o una ventana,
pa' ver los adornos,
de ésta tu Rama".
"A la media noche un gallo cantó,
y en su cantó dijo,
ya Cristo nació".
"Denme mi aguinaldo,
si me lo han de dar,
que la noche es corta
y tenemos que andar".
"Ya se va la Rama muy agradecida
porque en esta casa
fue bien recibida".
(alternativo)
"Ya se va la Rama muy desconsolada
porque en esta casa
no le dieron nada".
"Ya se va la Rama con patas de alambre
porque en esta casa
se mueren de hambre".
El altar de muertos más grande del mundo.
Fue inaugurado el 31 de octubre de 2023 y obtuvo el Récord Guinness.
Xalapa, Veracruz.
𓉸ִֶָྀི ִֶָ་༘࿐💀De las celebraciones más bonitas que tiene México en otoño es el Día de muertos༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚.⚰
🏵️🕯️.𖥔 ݁ ˖♱𝕯í𝖆 𝖉𝖊 𝖑𝖔𝖘 𝖒𝖚𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖔𝖘 𝖊𝖓 𝕸é𝖝𝖎𝖈𝖔♱ ݁˖ ݁𖥔 . 💀🪦
¡El Otoño en México es una Maravilla!🧡🏵️🍂
LA NUEVA ESPAÑA
cada vez hay MÁS SEÑALES de cómo se está gestando
A traditional cultural garment expresses an identity through clothing, which is usually associated with a geographic area or a period of time in history. It can also indicate social, marital or religious status. The clothing is used to represent the culture or identity of a specific ethnic group, it is also known as ethnic dress, ethnic wear, ethnic clothing, traditional ethnic wear or traditional ethnic garment. Such clothing often come in two forms: one for everyday occasions, the other for traditional festivals and/or formal wear.
The catrina is a traditional cultural garment. Its culture. It's not a costume. Its traditional clothing wore in a traditional festival/holiday that's associated with a period of time and a political and social denunciation of hypocrisy.
Its not worn everyday because it's a festival traditional garment and thats the whole fucking point.
This
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Costume
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IT👏IS👏NOT👏A👏COSTUME👏
It's original name is Calavera Garbancera (Chickpea Skull) and was created in Benito Juárez, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada and Porfirio Díaz governments to express the discontent of the people and was a symbol of social and political denunciation that eventually became a traditional wear for day of the dead. This wear is called La Catrina, its not a representation of dead itself but that of a dead woman, and it was created by cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada.
(this 👇 is the original calavera garbancera engraved in metal)
Back then texts called calaveras alegres (cheerful skulls) were written by middle class people critiquing in a mocking way the upper class and the country's situation and were published in "combat newspapers" - this texts were accompanied by drawings of skulls and skeletons dressed in gala clothes, drinking pulque, riding on horseback and in high society parties but all of this in lackluster neighborhoods to represent the misery, the political mistakes and society's hypocrisy.
Origin of the name cheakpea skull: cheakpea merchants were notorious for being indigenous people that tried to pass as European and denied they're indigenous origins and their culture. They would dress in high class clothes but live very precariously. Posada tried to convey that in this work of art that was a critique to the Mexicans that were poor but tried to sustain an European lifestyle that they couldn't afford.
Originally she was naked except for a very big and elegant hat with ostrich feathers. Diego Rivera dressed her up and gave her the name La Catrina when he painted this mural 👇
(Catrin was the name given to extremely elegant and wealthy Mexican aristocracy in XIX)
Posada said this about his inspiration: "Death is democratic. Blonde, brunette; rich, poor; everyone ends up being skulls" and this quote is basically the reason she became so traditional on the day of the dead, since it represents so well mexicans point of view about it.
And the texts that accompanied her (the cheerful skulls) became the calaveritas literarias (literary skulls) which are traditionally Mexican verse compositions that are written on the eve of the day of the dead as a manifestation of culture to make fun of both the living and the dead, and remember that we are all going to die. They are written in a satirical or burlesque language and are very short texts that reflect all the spirit and festivity in the face of death.
This
Is
Not
A
Costume
It
Is
Mexican
Culture