Day of the dead
Transcript of Day of the dead
Día de
Muertos
(Day of the
Dead)
By: Christine ChiangSpanish Senora Moen27 de Septiembre 2010
Día de Muertos
Día de Muertos es una fiesta muy importante y famoso. En
México la gente celebra este festival el primero y el dos de
noviembre. Los Mexicanos piensan que el Día de Muertos es
muy importante porque ellos creen que los humanos pueden
charlar con la gente muerta este día. El pan de los muertos y
calaveras de azúcar son las comidas mas comunes que se
vende durante el Día de Muertos.
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead, known as Día de los Muertos is a festival that
Mexicans have to celebrate and welcome back their family members
that has passed away. The Day of the Dead is different from
Halloween although there are a few similarities. Mexicans believe
the Day of the Dead is the only time that communication can
happen between the living and the dead. This is a two-day
celebration that happens on November 1st and 2nd of every year.
People have been practicing this festival for at least 3,000 years. For
the Mexicans the Day of the Dead is not a sad and scary day,
instead it is a happy, and funny day, for which they prepare things
in special ways for the dead relatives such as, special yummy food,
decoration with flowers, and dress up with scary types of customs.
The food that people prepare for the
Day of Dead is very different from
the food they normally eat. Sweets is
the taste they focus more on making
the special food to celebrate for
example, sugar skulls, and
chocolates. Sugar skulls are a very
traditional food in Mexico; it is
almost impassible to buy it in other
countries. The sugar skull is mainly
made from different colours of sugar in a shape of skull, and
skeleton. There are many colourful patterns of decorations on the
sugar skull. There are also many sugar skulls made to look like it’s
doing an activity, such as skeletons going to school, getting a
haircut, or getting married. Families cook and make their special
foods like tamales and chicken mole with chocolate galore for
decorations, which make their homes fill with chocolate smells.
Furthermore the bread of the dead, know as, pan de los muertos is
also a very important part in the foods for the day of the death.
Children will buy a lot of the bread of the dead and the sugar skulls
and give it to each other as little gifts.
Sugar skulls decorated with colourful patterns.
During the Day of the Dead
family members get together
to clean and decorate their
relatives’ graves, buy toys for
children, and tell jokes. People
will light up candles and put it
around the grave to help to guide the spirit of
the dead family to find their way back to
celebrate with them. They also use a lot of real
flowers for decoration around the grave. People bring fresh fruits
with them to the grave to give their dead family members and but it
in front of the grave, as well as some food that dead relatives loved
to eat while he/she was alive. Mexican makes up a lot of skeleton, or
dead related jokes to tell others on this day.
The Day of the Dead is a happy day for Mexicans, because this is
the day that they can remember their dead family members and
celebrate with them. There are a lot of yummy food made for this
day, and beautiful decorations on the graves.
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This is a photo showing how the Mexicans decorate the grave using flowers and candles, also, there are fruits that are brought for the dead person.
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