Hello happy week to all today I come to you from the popular carnival festivity. It originates from the Roman Empire probably in the 4th century.

It is called carnival (feast of the flesh) in short it was a sexual feast. It was carried out in honour of Bacchus, the god of the party, this celebration took place at the end of spring and the beginning of summer and at the time of sowing to conmerar or celebrate they drank wine, ate and different sexual acts without prejudice.

It passed to the western countries (Spain, Portugal, France) and then to the Judeo-Christian culture, that is why after the end of the carnival they celebrate the Wednesday of ashes (they clean all their sins in this celebration) where they prepare themselves for the holy week.

The use of the masks had to do with covering the identity of the person and that allowed the rich and the poor to celebrate together, thanks to that they were confused and could mix easily.

Nowadays it is celebrated all over the world, but in different ways depending on the country. In Brazil the comparsas celebrate with a specific theme. For example, if they have a good harvest that year, all the neighbourhoods elaborate a theme where they compete with each other and the best one is given a prize.

Nowadays the children wear costumes of fictitious characters to give a different identity as in ancient Rome. In Venezuela the best carnivals are in Callao, Carupana, Sucre as they are more organised and have a larger group of diversity and participants.

Every festivity has a history and this one in particular is fun, but we must have knowledge of its history, how it was born, why do they dress up, how did it come to be celebrated in all corners of the world, how did it come to be celebrated in all corners of the world? I hope this information is useful or you can learn the origin of the reason for the party and with this I say goodbye and send you a big kiss from Venezuela.