Festivals.
Festival is an art event ordinary celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristics aspect of that community and its religion or tradition. It often serve to fullfill specific communal purposes,especially in regard to communication or thanksgiving. They may also provide entertainment,which was particularly important to local communities. There are many festival in this world such as eid festival,food festival,halloween and others. I am so interested with this one festival,it is a weird festival. It seems funny and doesnt make sense but it happens. Most of weird festival celebrated in others country such as US,Spain and more. For this entry, I would like to give an example about weird festivals that happen in certain country
So the first one is Baby Jumping Festival. Once a year in mid-June,devils run wild in the Spanish village of Castrillo De Murcia. It represents the triumph of good over devil. During the festivals, red and yellow-masked 'devils' run through the streets hurling insults at villagers and whipping them. When drums announce the arrival of the black-clad atabalero,pious men who have come to drive out devil, el salto del Calacho - the fight of the devil will begin. Babies born during the previous year are laid on mattresses in the street while the customed men leap over them. They believe that the devil absorbs the sin of the babies and give them a protection. There have been no report of injuries,however the practice remain a subject of debate within the Catholic Church
The next one is Boryeong Mud Festival who are celebrated by Korean people. It is an annual festival which takes part during the summer of Boryeong. The first mud festival was staged in 1998 and attracted around 2.2 millions visitor to Boryeong. In range of 1996, the cosmetics was produced using the mud from the Boryeong mud flats. They said the cosmetics to be full of minerals,bentonities and germaniums which naturally in the mud from the sea.Through this festivals,it was hoped people will learn more about the mud and cosmetics.
The last one that i will show you is the Monkey Buffet Festival. This festival is celebrated by people in Thailand. This festival included giving fruits and vegetables to the local monkey populations of 2000 in Lopburi Province north of Bangkok. The festival was described as one of the strangest festival by London’s Guardin newspaper. There’s a photograph from the Monkey Buffet Festival at Pra Prang Sam Yot temple shows a monkey trying to get the fruits and vegetables.
There are 3 examples of the weird festival that happens in some country. Basically the festival happens because of their traditions or something that related to their religion. Maybe it seems weird to us especially people who live in Malaysia. For me, it is a new knowledge for us to know some tradition in other country. So do not judge of whatever that they do because it might be sensitive for them. Just enjoy and respect whatever that they do. You can search more about weird festival if you want. So thank you and have a good day everyone.
