Carnival in Western Countries 1

Carnivals are held in many countries in the world. This festival originated in the Middle Ages in Europe. The Festival of Wood and Dionysia in ancient Greece and ancient Rome can be said to be its predecessors. Some areas also call it Meat Thanking Day and Confession Day. This festival was once closely related to Easter. There is a 40-day Lent, known as Lent, before Easter. During Lent, people ban entertainment, abstain from meat, reflect and repent in memory of Jesus who suffered disaster three days before Easter. Life is solemn and dreary, so in the three days before the beginning of Lent, people will hold special banquets, dances, and parades., indulge in joy, so there is the saying of "Carnival". Nowadays, not many people adhere to rules and regulations such as Lent, but traditional carnival activities have been preserved and have become an important festival for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom.

Brazilian Carnival

The Brazilian Carnival is known as the largest Carnival in the world. At the carnival in Brazil, everyone is unwilling to express themselves, but wants to fulfill others. Some men want to have female characteristics; while some usually introverted women dance fanatically and try to imitate the agility and power of others. "Transvestite" often appears during carnivals, which is a product of history. The degree of enthusiasm for feminization of Brazilian Carnival can be said to be unique in the world. Among the carnivals in Brazil, the Rio de Janeiro Carnival is the most famous and fascinating event in the world.

Rio de Janeiro Carnival

Carnival is the largest festival in Brazil, but the most famous one is the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The city's Carnival is the most popular in the world for its large number of actors participating in the samba competition, its gorgeous costumes, its long duration, and its spectacular scenes. The Rio de Janeiro Carnival did not have a fixed venue at the beginning. All major streets of the city were stages for samba performances. Since the Carnival is midsummer and the weather is hot, the parade activities are held at night. Since the 1970s, various samba schools have proposed building a samba arena in the city for carnival activities.

In 1983, Oscar Niemeyer, a famous engineer who designed projects such as Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, personally designed it. 60,000 builders worked together to build a samba that could accommodate tens of thousands of spectators in just 117 days. Dance arena. Since then, the Rio de Janeiro Carnival has a fixed venue. The samba competition is a major event at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. The venue covers an area of 85,000 square meters, with stands on both sides and the passage for the samba team in the middle. During the Carnival every year, five samba activities are held in this venue, of which the third and fourth days are the most exciting. During these two days, the top 14 samba schools in the city will compete it out here to determine the rankings of the year, and the top five will perform another performance.

Carnival in Salvador

Among the carnivals in Brazil, the carnival in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, is unique. Because the Bahia people are reluctant to market the carnival, the carnival here can maintain its original flavor. In addition, in terms of music, Bahia is the most developed and important area in the country. It is full of music and dance. It is the most authentic expression of Brazilian tradition and the spirit of carnival. El Salvador's carnival "king" was ousted for thinness.

Carnival in the Amazon Jungle

Palintines is a small Brazilian city with a population of only 90,000 on the Amazon River. There are always a few days every year when tourists from all over the world equivalent to the local population are fascinated by it and even book hotels here a year in advance because it has a strong Amazonian style carnival-Boibamba.

Carnival in Santiago de Cuba

Every year from July to August, grand carnival activities are held across Cuba. Locals say this festival is related to a period of history. In 1953, Castro took advantage of the lax enemy guard during the Carnival to lead more than 100 young people to attack the Moncada Barracks in Santiago. From then on, the spark of the Cuban revolution was ignited. During this period, one of the city's main streets became a completely carnival venue. Both sides of the street are filled with various stalls, the most popular of which are beer stalls, followed by food stalls. Drinking beer is a "compulsory course" for people participating in carnival festivals. If there is wine, there must be meat."Roasted whole pigs" is a unique scenery at the carnival. The government has a five-day holiday for the Carnival. In addition to the "eating" and "playing" parts of the Carnival, the fanatical dance and music start after 9 p.m. every day. The most lively ones are the activities held in the last few days including float parades and all-night carnival.

Carnival in Havana, Cuba

The float parade kicked off the Havana Carnival, with people dancing black Cuban dances to rhythmic music. After the parade ended, the real celebration began. Everyone danced hip-hop, everyone was the protagonist, and the carnival lasted until the early hours of the morning.

Carnival in Venice, Italy

Venice is still winter in February, with a little chilly, but blue skies and clear skies, and no haze at all. Different from the quiet Venice in the past amidst the sound of boats and lights, these days, people's footsteps and happy laughter can be heard far away. People of different skin colors and different languages are rushing to the same destination-the world-famous Venice San Marco Square, where the annual "Watertown" Carnival is reaching its climax. The Nice Carnival is one of the oldest and largest carnivals in the world today. European carnivals are said to have originated from the ancient Shennong Festival.

The biggest feature of the Venice Carnival is its masks, followed by its gorgeous costumes. This tradition can be traced back to 1700 years. The powerful and the poor can blend together through masks. Behind the mask, social differences are temporarily eliminated. The rich become poor, and the poor become rich. They greeted each other respectfully.

Notting Hill Carnival

The Notting Hill Carnival is the largest street culture and art festival in Europe, held every year in the Notting Hill area of West London, England. Most black residents in Notting Hill do not come from Africa, but come from the Caribbean or other parts of Latin America. It is the immigrant culture of Notting Hill that gave birth to the Notting Hill Carnival. In the 1960s, West Indies immigrants living in the Notting Hill area held carnivals because of their homesickness. At that time, only a small group of people dressed in national costumes and beating steel drums were walking around the street. Decades later, it developed into a grand multicultural festival and one of London's hottest tourism projects.