Celebrating Christmas and New Year in the U.S. and Mexico
They are among the most beloved and famous vacation, and no wonder! Associated with the gifts, the Christmas holidays of family and a great atmosphere and good New Year is celebrated worldwide by many cultures and people. As a time of thanksgiving and celebration, the two festivals is also a time when people reflect on the past year, and welcome to a new 12-month cycle.
UNITED STATES
Celebrated as the feast of the religious and secular, in mostThe Americans, Christmas is one of the biggest festivals in the United States. One of the important contribution of U.S. with the tradition of the Christmas turkey – birds native to North America – and now considered a Christmas dinner staples. Other Christmas are about pumpkin pie, candy canes and eggnog.
In New York, Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was the best attractions. Set in 1931, became a symbol of Christmas in the Big Apple. Huge fir – can be 30 million euros- There is a feast adorned with bright lights and crowned with a star on development.
On the advent of the new year, Americans usually celebrate with a night out. The common theme is a masquerade ball where guests dress up and expose play after midnight. In Times Square in New York, thousands of revelers gathered for the annual countdown, which have been customary since 1906. Within minutes to midnight, the giant ball descending from atop the tall pole, like peoplecountdown to the New Year. A big hit with tourists and locals.
MEXICO
With the Portuguese roots of relations and the native customs of America – Mexico celebrates its hybrid version of the Christmas holiday filled with the country's Christian heritage, cultural norms. Bethlehem manger or are common in churches, homes and shops as well as a popular game called Los Pastores (Shepards). In the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is unusual before Christmas, named NightRadish Radishes or night, where the master sculptors make a modest vegetable root vegetables, but surprisingly colorful for the development of large statues of saints and nativity scenes. Corn leaves and dried flowers are also used to create a dazzling variety of great shapes the work of art.
Nine days before Christmas, a procession called Inns – basically travel Reconstruction of Mary and Joseph, who sought refuge in Bethlehem – where the journey takes pilgrimsdoor to door in search of refuge. It states that only one third would be welcome "pilgrims". After the prayer session, the page is designed for children, with the pinata, papier-mache container filled with sweets, fruits and sweets.
At midnight on Christmas Eve, the birth of Jesus is the precursor of the fireworks, bells and whistles. In contrast to many other parts of the world, children in Mexico City just to get the presents on January 6, Dia de los Reyes Magos (Day ThreeWise, Me). But increasingly, many of whom are adopted Christmas as the date of exchange of gifts.
New Year in Mexico also aware of the enormous development of street festivals, music, dance, food and tumult of fireworks on Tuesday. Some New Year traditions is to eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight luck!