THE CARNIVAL

The carnival is a celebration that takes place immediately before the Christian Lent
(which begins with Ash Wednesday), and has a variable date (between February and
March depending on the year). Traditionally, it starts on a Thursday (Thursday, Thursday)
and ends on the following Tuesday (Carnival Tuesday). The carnival combines elements
such as costumes, groups that sing couplets, parades and street parties. In spite of the
differences that its celebration presents in the world, its common characteristic is that of
being a period of permissiveness and certain lack of control. In its beginnings, probably
with a certain sense of modesty characteristic of religion, the Carnival was a parade in
which the participants wore costumes and wore masks. However, the custom was
transforming the celebration to its current form.

The origin of its celebration seems likely to be in the pagan festivals, such as those held
in honor of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, Saturnalia and Roman Lupercaux, or those
held in honor of the Apis bull in Egypt. According to some historians, the origins of this
festivity would go back to ancient Sumeria and Egypt, more than 5000 years ago, with
very similar celebrations at the time of the Roman Empire, from where the custom
spread throughout Europe, being taken to America by the Spanish and Portuguese
navigators from the end of the 15th century.

Carnival, although the Church does not admit it as a celebration of religious tone, is
associated with countries of Catholic tradition, and to a lesser extent with Eastern
Orthodox Christians; Protestant cultures have modified traditions, such as the Danish
carnival.1

Ethnologists find in the carnival surviving elements of ancient festivals and cultures, such
as the winter festival (Saturnalia), the Greek and Roman Dionysian celebrations
(Bacanales), the pre-Hispanic Andean festivals and the African-American cultures.

On which date the carnival is celebrated in Ecuadorian

Ecuador will live this week the first longest holiday of the year with Carnival. The
weekend of March 2 and 3 joins the days Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 when the whole
world celebrates this party.
Activities that takes place in carnival in Ecuadorian

Carnival Parties 2019 Ecuador in Ecuador are celebrated throughout the country, with
parades, floats filled with flowers, fruits and beautiful women, games, banquets, dances
and amusements in general, with lots of food and lots of drink, with the purpose to face
the abstinence of Lent with the body well fortified and prepared.

Typical food at carnival in Ecuadorian

The egg bread, mestizo bread, butter biscuit and Carnival empanada are the traditional
ones of the date. "Before the bread was made in each house because nobody worked in
Carnival",

The dress is used in carnival in the Ecuadorian

In Ecuador we celebrate the carnival with dances, comparsas, music, and colorful
clothing. Here are some examples of clothing, masks and traditional costumes, very
common during holiday seasons