Every year in sunny Brazil comes a wonderful period of celebration, the carnival begins. Dancing, music, fun - all these are the components of the carnival. Brazilians are a people who know how to have fun and in general they prefer to consider life as a holiday, and the most important holiday is the carnival. Interesting facts about this celebration of life will help you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of lightness and carelessness that reigns on it.
Carnival takes place forty days before Easter, it becomes a symbol of the onset of fasting, in which it is forbidden to eat animal products. It turns out that the carnival is a kind of farewell to this pleasure.
There are two variants of the appearance of the word carnival. Firstly, it is believed that it has its roots in Christianity, in this case it has its roots in the Latin words "carne levare", which means "to eliminate meat" and this has logic, because you cannot eat meat during fasting.
The second version says that "carnival" comes from Latin "carrus navalis", meaning "sea ship". This is a kind of ship that has wheels, as the Romans called it, a ship on wheels. This is the very ship on which the priest of the Supreme Deity Bacchus sits in the procession.
Another interesting fact is that the Brazilian Carnival turns out to be an imported holiday from Portugal. The Brazilian Carnival is similar to the Portuguese Shrovetide. Street festivities, fun, competition, etc. The main thing that the carnival took from Maslenitsa was the celebration some time before Lent, which is considered a period of liberation and redemption. Then it was supplemented with features of Italian and French carnivals, thanks to which magnificent and bright costumes, masks, and dances appeared.
In 1916, a fiery samba dance was specially invented for this celebration, and even schools for it arose. The main action of the carnival takes place in the very heart of Rio de Janeiro, where spectacular competitions between the elite of different samba schools take place on a boulevard about seven hundred meters long. This alley is called "Sambodrome". It was built back in 1984 and is a road that is fenced, on both sides there are stands watching the celebration.
The Brazilian Carnival is the country's most important event. They are carefully preparing for it. Schools annually choose a specific theme for their performances: costumes, choreography and composition in general. Usually on this night about three to four schools compete, one of which includes about five thousand dancers. The carnival runs for four nights from nine in the evening until sunrise.
Carnival is one of the most impressive events in its scale, filled with bright colors and enthusiasm. Once in the cycle of sambo dancing people dressed in multi-colored feathers, even a simple passer-by cannot refrain from joining the universal celebration of life.
