What is Mardi Gras?
Mardi Gras, which is French for "Fat Tuesday", is an annual celebration that takes place before lending. Also called Shove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, is usually the last day of the carnival, a weekly to monthly celebration in a Christian, mostly Roman Catholic traditions. Mardi Gras is presented as a great festival, a turbulent carne vale -or goodbye to the body--which serves as the last sowing of wild oats before the boot season of the Lent reported on Wednesday. Mobile, Alabama; and Galveston, Texas-in the United States-a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Venice, Italy; and Mazatlan, Mexico-Instationally. The Mardi Gras celebration basically has to do with a saturating appetite before the Lent of Mistensity and Self -September, which starts at the ashes of the center and ends at Easter. Another name for Mardi Gras is “Pancake Tuesdays,“ which is a reference to the habit of feasting on pancakes and completing all eggs and dairy products that are often forbidden during a fasting point of view. The world
Perhaps the most famous celebration of Mardi Gras in the United States is the New Orleans celebration, Lousiana. Although there is no historical confirmation when the first Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans, it is believed that the early French settlers have brought a custom to Louisiana. The popular legend appreciates the honor of Mardi Gras transplant to the new world to the French Explorer, who arrived on the Mississippi River in 1699 and named his place to the Landing Point of Du Mardi Gras, after the holiday that day in his homeland. The eighteenth century documents apply to the established preliminary traditions such as masked balls.
starts about two weeks before Tuesday's fat, shows organized by groups or clubs called Krewes are beginning to move through the streets of New Orleans and the surrounding communities. Krewe members generally pay membership fees or fees used to finance the construction of their shows and costumes they wear. Some krEwes have a long historical tradition. Missick Krewe of Comus organized the first show in 1857 and still holds the ball every Eva Mardi Gras. Major Krewes, such as Krewe Endymion and Krewe of Tucks, often have their own shows.
Larger and more well -known Krewes holds their shows closer to the fat Tuesday. Over the years, the shows have been celebrities such as Louis Armstrong and Danny Kay, and attract large crowds of spectators who gather to compete for "throwing" the cast members of Krewe. Popular feasts are strings of colored plastic beads, small and cheap toys and plastic or aluminum "dubloons". Jazz Bands, walking clubs and smaller shows of a promenade around the city. The main shows avoid a quarter due to logistics problems presented by its narrow streets.
The traditional colors of Mardi Gras are purple for "justice", green for "faith" and gold for "power". These colors are evident everywhere during Mardi Gras and previous weeks-from the garment of the gratitude toMeals for chips that are thrown from floats. The royal cake, the popular Mardi Gras, is decorated with sugar that is colored in these colors. King cake is a coffee cake roasted in the shape of a ring and glazed with a simple sugar icing, then sprinkled with gold, purple and green colored sugar. Inside the king of the cake, the baker hid a small plastic child symbolizing Christ's child. Anyone who finds a child in HJE or is reportedly a slice of the king of the cake to expect good luck in the upcoming year-and it is expected to organize another King Cake Party.