Beautiful Brazil Brazil has many religious and non-religious festivals. Some festivals are inextricably linked with the historical origins and religious customs of Portuguese, Africans, indigenous Indians and other ethnic groups. The biggest folk festival in Brazil is Carnival, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival in our country. Carnival originated in ancient Rome and Greece to welcome the Spring Festival, and was introduced to Brazil from Portugal. Now it has become a major traditional festival in Brazil. Samba Square in Rio de Janeiro is the largest and best organized carnival center in the world. In order to welcome the annual grand event, more than ten samba schools in this city began to carefully choose the performance theme several months in advance, and its content either reflected a historical event or highlighted real life, with both humorous and sarcastic techniques and bitter criticism. After the theme is determined, the school organizes drills all day, composes and choreographs music and dances, makes unique costumes and floats, and selects well-trained dance "kings" and "queens" to fully express the theme. Because samba is cheerful and nervous, it sounds exciting, exciting, beautiful and free to play, so it often infects the audience and magically blends into the carnival torrent. (See photos 4 and 5 on the second cover) Although the festival of the goddess of the sea is not as grand as the carnival, it has a special mystery. This is a festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. On the eve of the night of 65438+February 3 1 every year, in beaches, rivers and lakes, as long as there is water, believers wear clothes with white as the main tone, embrace homemade small sailboats, hold pottery bowls full of flowers on their heads, and sing and dance around the altar of the goddess by candlelight. At midnight, the music praising the goddess sounded, fireworks flew open, believers filed into waist-deep water, put boats and flowers into the water, and watched them drift away, as if taking away their admiration and infinite sustenance for the goddess. Then, believers will jump into the water to take a good bath, wash away the filth of the past year, and greet the arrival of the new year in purity. (See photo 2 on the second cover) Pentecost is a folk festival that originated in Portugal. 18 19 was held in Brazil for the first time. It starts at the beginning of June every year and lasts 10 days. During the festival, people are dressed in costumes, wearing masks dominated by cows, ghosts, clowns and pirates to wish each other good luck, while young people are in love. The most lively time of Holy Spirit Day is the last three days, and there will be horse riding performances, girl parades and singing performances. The parade consists of 40 girls, dressed as shepherdess, wearing straw hats, bows and arrows on their shoulders, and dressed in red and blue. They recited the story of the birth of Jesus in children's voices and performed a drama in which justice triumphed over evil. The most exciting thing is the horse riding performance. Twenty-four riders participated in the performance. Before the performance, these riders must undergo a rigorous selection. Being one of the riders on the stage is a man's pride. Riders are like medieval warriors, all dressed up and armed with spears. They either lined up to fight, or rode spears to take off the hanging small metal rings. The riders not only showed their superb riding skills, but also showed their masculine beauty to the fullest. Although the performance is dangerous, there are few accidents. In the end, it is usually the Portuguese marked with red who beat the Moors marked with blue. After the horse riding performance, a large-scale dinner began, and people drank to their hearts' content and got drunk. (See the second cover photo 1) In the national festivals in Brazil, there is an indispensable performance, that is, "Capoeira", which is both a dance and a martial art. It originated in Angola and is a martial art. Now it has become a highly regulated sport in Brazil: only legs, feet and heads are allowed to attack each other. The movements are divided into single and double, and both men and women can participate. The fighting performance was wonderful. The two sides took turns fighting in the designated area. Sometimes they attack with one foot, sometimes they stand on their hands and attack with their rotating feet. Dazzling, as intense as China Wushu. Interestingly, there was also a musical instrument called "Belling Bawu" to accompany the fighting. This instrument is a bit like the ancient pipa in China, except that it has only one wire connected to a gourd speaker. Shake the gourd when you play, so that the gourd seeds hit the shell and make a lattice sound. At the same time, tap the tight metal wire with a metal sheet and make a special whimper. "Ka Poeira" is particularly popular in Bahia, and now clubs in major cities in Brazil hold "Ka Poeira" training courses. (See the second cover photo 3)● Traditional festivals in Brazil @ Pan Mingtao There are many festivals in Brazil, both religious and secular. Some festivals are inextricably linked with the historical origins and religious customs of Portuguese, Africans, indigenous Indians and other ethnic groups. The biggest folk festival in Brazil is Carnival, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival in our country. Carnival originated in ancient Rome and Greece to welcome the Spring Festival, and was introduced to Brazil from Portugal. Now it has become a major traditional festival in Brazil. Samba Square in Rio de Janeiro is the largest and best organized carnival center in the world.