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So cool to read about everyone's home tradition they miss the most! I'm from England but I've been living in the States for five years and the thing I miss the most is Bonfire Night on November 5th.
The best thing about Bonfire Night is the fireworks, oh, and the bonfires! … and the history behind it. Basically, Guy Fawkes and his friends tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I. They nearly did it too – they hired a room under the House of Parliament and filled it with explosives. But someone told the royal palace. The authorities found Guy Fawkes in the room guarding the explosives, and he was sentenced to torture and death.
So it's a tradition that celebrates the fact that the king survived. It also means people don't forget what happens if you plot against your country. There's a kind of poem about it that starts 'Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.' That's why we build a 'guy' – a life-size model of Guy Fawkes – and burn it on the bonfire. Pretty dark and horrible when you think about it!
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Sounds comfortable while I read out all stories, I'm from Ecuador, in Quito city. We have similar tradition to Bonfire Night by the way different meaning.
Basically, that occurred at midnight of Year's last day, we call this tradition: "Quemar el Año Viejo" means "To burn the Old Year". The idea behind it is to make a rag doll "un monigote" stuffed with paper balls of newspaper or magazines all of them filled up on old clothes and burn the rag doll.
Sometimes you can hit it with a wood stick while saying: "I wish for a better new year, where I will achieve my new goals, that the governments or authorities will be better work, that the country grow up, that your family will see better times ahead" So it works like a kind of cabala or amulet.
I´m Mary from Colón, Querétaro. And my favorite tradition is a Friday of Dolores. The best thing about Friday of Dolores are the ice cream and ice popsicles that people gives you, and the chamomile that adorns the streets.
The best thing about this traditions is that there are very few days to celebrate it.
It's so nice to me to read posts of people from all over the world. I'm so curious about all these traditions.
I come from Italy, particulary from Tuscany, the region of Florence and Pisa. I don't know a lot about italian traditions (the most interesting that I know is Christmas), but I could talk about Carnival, like the Carnival of Rio (no, okay, it's not exactly the same thing, we are more "barer"). So, Carnival is celebrated during the month of February. There's a little city near of the place in which I live called Viareggio. Viareggio is by the sea, and along the promanade, every Sunday of February I think, a lot of chariots parade. We call it "la sfilata dei carri". Chariots have a huge variety of themes, from TV series, to animals, to politics. A lot of places do some little paredes with chariots, but very modest. People dress up in this event. Once it was usual to dress up like a princess or a charakter of movies or cartoons. Now there's not a really theme to follow.
Typical of carnival are "Le chiacchere", that litteraly means "gossip" or "small talk". They are fried puffs, very crunchy, covered by powdered sugar.
I don't like carnival so much, but it's funny to partecipate at some local events.
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Nice to meet you, It is really interesting read about all of our traditions around the world. My name is Ruth and I am from Mexico!, specifically from Tijuana in the state of Baja California. I think we do not have an specific tradition, but we celebrate ¨El festival del taco y la salsa¨, this event it is pretty cool because Mexico is well known for our great variety of tacos and also for our hot tastes in sauces, so we make a festival where people cook and taste all of the great variety of tastes in tacos and sauces, and well, it is not only for mexican tacos, it is also for ¨tacos¨ of other cultures.
Hey guys, It was very interesting to learn about different cultures and traditions. I'm from Bangladesh, specifically Chittagong. One of the most important festivals here is Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year, which is celebrated on April 14th. People wear traditional clothes, enjoy festive foods like panta bhat (fermented rice) and hilsa fish, and participate in colorful processions.
Another major celebration is Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan. Families gather for prayers, share delicious sweets, and visit loved ones. Chittagong, being a coastal city, also has unique maritime traditions and rich cultural heritage.
I love learning about other countries' traditions!
Hey, guys!
I am from Kazakhstan, and we have many interesting traditions. If I were to describe them all, I would probably bore you before I finished, so I will mention just one.
It is called "Tusau Kesу"- a ritual in which a child's legs are tied together with a rope and then cut. The person who cuts the rope is believed to influence the child's future, and we even have local jokes related to this tradition: if someone frequently stumbles, we jokingly call them "the person whose rope was never cut.
im salwa and i was born in indonesia. indonesia has many culture and tradition, it also have so many ethnic. i was born and living in Medan, Sumatera Utara. in my country there is a tradition before the ramadhan season come is called 'punggahan' where people eat together with their family to welcome ramadhan season. and then we will 'ziarah' it means we go to our family's grave and pray for them.
Hi, Salwa! I saw your comment and your pfp. It's Ningning, I love Ningning too so i leave a reply under yours. Im sun, by the way, nice to meet you. I was born in Bogor and living in Bogor too, West Java. In Bogor, there aren't so many traditions like yours. but my father was from West Sumatra, we have a tradition called "Upacara Tabuik" to commemorate the death of the Prophet Muhammad's Grandson. Once again nice to meet you (fellow Ningning lovers, LOL)
Hello guys! It's so impressed the traditions around the world. I'm from México, from the state of Puebla where there are many communities and each of them is celebrated every year "La fiesta del pueblo" (the town festival). It is consists that all the families that live there prepared a dish called "mole poblano", all the people can visit a stranger house and eat "mole poblano", you only need to give a bread called "pan de fiesta". After the meals the people go the fair where there are mechanics games, food and entertainment with traditional dance. In the night all families join at the center of the community to dance "cumbia" or "salsa".
Hi, it was very interesting to learn a little bit about other countries and their festivals or traditions.
I'm from Costa Rica. There are many festivities. The most important one is on September 15th because it's Costa Rica's independence day. It also means the independence of the entire Central America from Spain.
Here, we celebrated it mostly in schools and high schools. Each institution organizes events that include dances, patriotic parades, the hoisting of the flag, and performances by local students