Brazilian Carnival-the largest performance event on earth

Carnival, also known as the "Good Years Festival", is a festival that many countries in Western Europe promote banquets, carnival and other activities during Lent.

There are various opinions about the origin of Carnival. Some say it is related to ancient celebrations of the New Year and natural regeneration, while others say it originated from pedantic agricultural ceremonies. However, Carnival and Easter in many countries have close connections. There is a forty-day Lent before Resurrection, or Lent. People refrain from entertainment and meat eating to remember Jesus, who suffered three days before Resurrection. Because life was solemn during the Lent era, people had banquets and revelry in the days before the start of Lent. Nowadays, many of the "golden rules" of Lent have been diluted, but traditional carnival activities have spread.

Carnival dates vary according to regional and ethnic traditions. Carnival in Germany lasts for a long time. Munich and Bavaria start on January 6, while Cologne and the Rhineland start at 11:11 on November 11 every year until before Lent of the following year. Celebrations in France are limited to the day before the first day of Lent and to the Thursday of the third week of Lent. New Orleans is the most famous Carnival in the United States. The most famous carnival in the world is the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazil is known as the land of carnival. The Carnival held in February every year is not only the most cautious festival in Brazil, but also attracts tourists from all over the world. During the festival era, tens of thousands of rare samba dance school students dressed in beautiful costumes paraded and performed, accompanied by a grand float parade. Ribbon and tidbits fly across the sky. Many travelers also danced wildly to the music. The times are so grand and the air is so enthusiastic. It is the best in the world.

Brazilian Carnival The Brazilian Carnival is known as the largest carnival in the world and is known as the "biggest show on earth". It takes place for three days in mid-to-late February every year. At the carnival in Brazil, everyone refuses to show themselves, but wants to become someone else. Some men wish they had female characteristics; while some usually introverted girls danced fanatically and just copied the quick and powerful measures of others. "Transvestite" is often present in carnivals, which is a product of history. The level of enthusiasm for feminization in Brazil's 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 desirable event in the world.

It is said that the Rio de Janeiro Carnival began in the mid-19th century. At first, the carnival was not limited to some indoor costume balls held by aristocrats. People put on masks purchased from Paris and celebrated casually. In 1852, the band ordered by Portugal Azevedo became a stranger. Following the lively music, whether black or white, poor or rich, men and women, old and young, jumped, and the whole city became happy. Azevedo's move was a huge success and became a milestone in the history of Rio de Janeiro Carnival, symbolizing that the Carnival became a public festival.

The Rio de Janeiro Carnival did not have a solid occasion at the beginning. All the main streets of the city were filled with stages for samba performances. Because the Carnival is in midsummer and the climate is extremely hot, parades are held at night. Since the early 1970s, various samba schools have proposed building a samba competition venue in the city for carnival activities. In 1983, Oscar Niemeier, a well-known engineer who planned projects such as Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, personally planned that 60,000 creators worked together and in just 117 days, they built a samba that could accommodate tens of thousands of spectators. Dance arena. From then on, the Rio de Janeiro Carnival has a solid occasion.

Among the carnivals in Brazil, the carnival in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, is unique. Because the Bahia people refused to market the carnival, the carnival here was able to maintain its original flavor. In addition, in terms of music, Bahia is the most prosperous and important region in the world. It is full of music and dancing everywhere. It is the most authentic manifestation of Brazilian tradition and carnival energy.

"Brazil's carnival is not in decline as some people claim. On the contrary, this folk event is increasingly showing vitality in line with the characteristics of contemporary society." Said Arood Costa, an expert on Brazilian samba and carnival topics.

Arode Costa is an exquisite representative of the black cultural and artistic circles in Brazil. He has been a journalist and actor. He is famous as an expert on Brazilian samba and carnival topics. He has awarded six related monographs. An art construction company was established in the 1980s to spread Brazilian folk song and dance art. It has led delegations to perform in many countries in Europe and North and South America. The main programs are carnival and samba performances.

Brazilian Carnival is divided into pre-carnival, carnival and post-carnival. The early stage refers to the month or two before the carnival, with the primary focus being drills and rehearsals. In the first two weeks of the carnival, the Motou Carnival is flying. There are about two dozen collectives in the city to conduct a Motou Carnival costume parade, singing and dancing. From the official start of the Carnival, to the samba parade at the samba dance venue, to the day of the Carnival, there are about five days for you. In the later period, it refers to the period from Carnival Day to Whose Sunday in the future. In this era, the Carnival Review Committee scored and selected the parade performances of samba schools at all levels and rated the rankings. This weekend, a special top six performance will be held at the samba dance venue to mark the finale of the Carnival. In addition, indoor dress-up parties were also popular in various parts of Brazil during the Carnival era. Some of them were held in luxury restaurants, each with a theme. The interior decoration was brilliant and colorful, and the clothes of the participants were innovative. Everyone danced and drank wildly, celebrating tonight.

In medieval Christianity, the Carnival Festival lasted from Epiphany to the beginning of Lent. The Carnival Festival in Brazil refers to the three days before the start of Lent. Rio de Janeiro's earliest carnival parades had no musical beat or melody, but just shouting and laughing, and rampant throwing of liquids and objects at each other. One year at Carnival, some Portugal people took big drums and several small drums to the street and beat them deafening, attracting large groups of people to the street. This may be said to be the beginning of Carnival. Later, some groups with similar costumes and costumes gradually formed on the streets to carnival parades, many of whom were black. These black collectives began to introduce African music and dancing into the carnival.

The intervention of samba is an important milestone in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. Experts often admit that the word samba originates from the "samba" in the Kinpendu language of Angola in Africa, meaning navel. Samba is a popular belly dance among the Kimpendu tribe. It was brought to Brazil by African slaves and was first broadcast in Salvador, Brazil's first capital city and now the capital of Bahia in the northeastern state. Samba dance is also famous for its "circle dance". When dancing, people form a circle, one dancer first enters the circle, using her belly to express the choice of a partner of the opposite sex, and the two dance wildly with the accompaniment of wild impact music. After that, the first dancer quit, and the dancer who was invited to join the circle chose another person of the opposite sex to dance with him in the same way, and so on, until everyone danced once.

But today's samba is not the samba of the past. According to textual research, from 1870 to 1880, in the streets inhabited by black Africans in Rio de Janeiro, Your Excellency presented a style of businessman dancing mainly influenced by the African Batuk dance. The beat was fast, the dance steps were wild, and the hips were shaking and whirling, making people dizzying. That area is rich in a cucurbitaceae plant originating in Africa. Its fruit is edible and is deeply liked by the public. It is commonly known as "Maxishe", so this kind of dance gradually spread among the celebrities of Maxishe. At the end of the 19th century, many Bahia black people moved to Rio de Janeiro and brought samba to black areas. Samba and Masisher oozed and integrated with each other, gradually forming today's samba, and the word samba also replaced the name of Masisher in the early 20th century.

Before and after this, some musicians began to patronize samba dances in these neighborhoods several times, receiving inspiration from samba music and creating a large number of samba dances, spreading samba to the whole society, making samba become a businessman. Soon, Rio de Janeiro presented its original Carnival samba parade. At the end of the 2020s, the first samba school-"Let People Speak" was born in black ghettos. This group was the first to hold a carnival parade accompanied by a samba band equipped with Brazilian drums, long drums, tambourines, treble drums and other instruments. Subsequently, the most famous samba schools in history, such as Mangora, Potra and Sagro, were established one after another. As samba became famous around the world as a native Brazilian music and dance, the samba school gradually became famous around the world. The successive appearance of samba schools has made the Carnival Samba Parade Competition popular. 1934 The Rio de Janeiro Samba School Alliance was founded.

The original samba parade was held in Eleventh Square, a black neighborhood known as the Cradle of Samba. In the Carnival Samba Parade, the samba dance in each school has a plot and possible theme, so it is called the theme samba. In the 60s of the last century, the theme Samba presented a revolution, namely, the so-called figures on the edge of history-those who had never appeared in the hall of fine history and might not have been written much in history books also became the theme, including folk reverence for idols. Some bring topics of concern to poor communities to the samba dance arena.

In 1984, the Rio de Janeiro Samba Dance Ground planned by Niemer, Brazil's most famous architect, was completed. Since then, it has become the headquarters of the Brazilian Carnival Samba Dance Parade, which attracts global attention every year. This is a major turning point in the history of Carnival, and it is also a symbolic accident in the commercialization of Carnival samba parade performances. The Samba Dance Hall has an eight-hundred-meter-long stand, which is divided into different areas, with VIP seats, private boxes, ordinary stands, etc. The Samba School began to have the right to talk, and understood the right to broadcast it on TV through alliances and media.

The samba dance hall is filled with carnival air in the first two months before the Carnival every year. There is a samba dance school conducting previews almost every weekend. Although it is not dressed in clothes, it is still very lively. About a week before and after the Carnival, it is the carnival period. The most attractive thing among them is the special school parade competition, which lasts two nights. In the end, the schools that finish in the top six will hold a grand show.

Each school maintains a staff of almost 600 people, all of whom are professional staff of various types. Every year, starting from May to organize the carnival, determining the theme of the samba dance parade in August, and then performing scripts according to the topic selection plan and style, building floats, props and clothing, and conducting drills and rehearsals. Thailand is busy and happy for half a year until the Carnival of the following year. In the past, schools built carnival supplies such as colorful carts, clothing, and props in greenhouses that were temporarily rented or built. In 2006, Rio de Janeiro built the famous "Samba City", covering an area of 90,000 square meters, building their own "greenhouses" for 14 special samba schools. This year, these 14 special schools have successively built floats and built clothing and accessories in Samba City.

There are currently about 40 samba schools in Rio de Janeiro, of which 14 are special schools. The income of the Samba School mainly comes from the sale of CDs, royalties on TV broadcast fees, royalties on parade tickets, income from the sale of clothing and memorial products, as well as sponsorship fees from the region or organization or company involved in the theme. In addition, there is also income from ticket sales for actual drills and rehearsals from December to February of the following year. The total revenue of each school is almost three million dollars. Brazil is the only country in the world that holds carnivals all over the world. Other countries in the world hold carnivals in a certain city or a certain region. Carnival festivals across Brazil have their own characteristics and can attract a large number of mainland residents and tourists. Rio de Janeiro is the most restricted and loudest one. Other places such as El Salvador, Recife-Olinda, and Sao Paulo are also famous. However, there is a difference in spirit. Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo are both samba school parades, Recife is a Moto Carnival, and El Salvador has a certain religious color and is also a Moto Samba. Each of its large squares is often made up of thousands of people.