Carnival of Brazil - Brazilian Carnival
Prior to 1840, the streets of Brazilian
towns ran riot during the three-day period leading up to Ash Wednesday
known as "Carnaval," with people in masks hurling stink bombs
and squirting each other with flour and strong-smelling liquids; even
arson was a form of entertainment. In 1840, the Italian wife of a Rio
de Janeiro hotel owner changed the carnival celebration forever by sending
out invitations, hiring musicians, importing streamers and confetti, and
giving a lavish masked ball. In a few years the masked ball became the
fashion and the wild pranks played on the streets disappeared.
Today Rio de Janeiro has the biggest and best known pre-Lenten carnival in the world - its most colorful event is the Samba School Parade. The samba schools taking part in the parade - each roughly having three to five thousand participants - are composed overwhelmingly of poor people from the city's sprawling suburbs. Every carnival Rio's samba schools compete with each other and are judged on every aspect of their presentation by a jury. Each samba school must base its effort around a central theme. Sometimes the theme is an historical event or personality. Other times, it is a story or legend from Brazilian literature. The costumes must reflect the theme's historical time and place. The samba song must recount or develop it, and the huge floats must detail the theme in depth.
Carnival in Brazil
Renata Pauperio from Brazil
Carnival is the most famous holiday in Brazil. It is not about a big moment in history or about a famous person, but it is important for the people because it's a time of camaraderie, freedom, and almost a whole week without work. People can choose between parties or rest, and most people choose parties, day after day, night after night.
It starts forty days before Easter. It's based on the Christian calendar, but it isn't approved by the Church very well. It lasts four days and four nights. It starts on Saturday and finishes on a Thursday. People put on their costumes and go out into the streets or to clubs. There are also the Samba schools which make a parade showing their music, fantasies, and allegorical cars. They are followed by the people. Every year the parade tell a different story. Each city has one or more schools like this.
Carnival is celebrated in the south where by Wednesday everything comes back to normal. The problem is that it is not approved by the church in the Northwest where carnival is more traditional. There people don't respect its end and continue to party until the next Sunday.
I like Carnival, but I don't agree that the party should keep going on. And, like at every other popular party, people drive, dance and have fun. Unfortunately, some people aren't conscientious and give it a bad name, leaving a bad impression of this holiday, but it is the only national holiday that moves all the country and its different kinds of people and cultures together.
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