Day of the Dead Travel Video for Kids
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Travel Video for Kids
I am your host, mister bones. We have come to celebrate el DIA de Los muertos or the day of the dead for you green goes out there. Originating thousands of years ago. It is still celebrated throughout Mexico. Preparations are just beginning. So let me introduce you to my living Friends. They are going to find out what this festival is all about. This is where it all began with the ancient people of Mexico. They believe that death was just the beginning of the next stage of our beautiful existence. Once a year, we celebrate el DIA de Los muertos and pay tribute to our loved ones who have died. We make many offerings and celebrate with a big fiesta.
There is so much to prepare. Let's meet up with Derek and eats the now. Hi, I'm Derek. I'm from Michigan. I came down to Oaxaca, Mexico, to learn about the day of the dead. And I met this really cool girl named easily. My name is Lee. I'm from Oaxaca. What is all of this? Is this for Halloween or what is it? No. This is DIA de Los muertos. We are just going to the market. We are going to buy all the things for the delta. Hey, we need to buy some flowers. Last Flores. There is an ancient story by the Aztecs. And as the press ask his guard to send a sign that the dead were in the afterlife in wood come back and visit. The next day, the land was covered in San Paso Chi. Marigold flowers, the flower of the dead. Let's go. Go to the candles for. The candles light a path that is guiding the soul that is going to their Las velas. A way that we have to make fun of that that can be represented in the skeletons. The skeleton is a symbol of your life after death, you know, they're dead from us, but they're living a life somewhere. Somewhere out there, they're still doing what makes them happy.
What's the bread form? We call it pande muertos. That is just bread that is especially made for this occasion. And just to offer to the people who have died. I thought just for the size of my head. Most of them had little faces on them. It represents, you know, the dead person that they're celebrating. We also need to buy some. So those are the. Soft paper in many different colors just for the altered you see they have different only different shapes like the skeleton or that is like most of our casket. A casket and angels on the side. Yeah, there are angels. Oh, there's a horse dragon the buggy. What color? The yellow one right there. See the horse in the front, dragon. Skeleton the buggy? Better than this game at you? Then you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm saying. Okay, we need to buy some chocolate. What's the chocolate? This is mole. The mole is a special dish that we have here in Oaxaca. El mole. You decide how much cacao you want. You build your own chocolate. Yeah. Yeah, so you're the silicon must you want to have in time? I've never had the option of building my own chocolate I've ever. Thank you. It's very, very spicy. It's not like, you know, America we have the chocolate sweetener, but this is spicy. Spicy and sweet. Probably at the end, you are going to get used to it. Don't like it. What do you think? Nice.
Do I get some barbecue sauce or something like that? No, I just say that that I just eat it like that? Yeah. Have they been? How is it? Come on, you are afraid. I'm brave because I bugs. I've been doing this when I was little. I just hit a choline. My little okay, today at the market, we bought so many things for the other. Candies, we bought some mole. We even bought some chapli des. When I saw the altar this morning it was just the skeleton, the flowers, and the art, but I didn't know really about the bread. The chocolate, the candy. I'm still trying to figure out what really the significance behind it, but slowly, but surely I'm getting ahold of it. Back to our story. Here is my old friend. And here is a picture of me when I was still alive. Most homes in Mexico have authors just like this to honor their dead. Their friend has lots and lots of goodies. Flowers, fruit, and Chapo lenas. Everything we got from the market. Ask the luego. Civic, I would like to go and see my friend Achilles. We just went into Achilles's house and he showed us his altar. Yeah, friend days for their loved ones as passed. The design of the altar had three steps to a one was how earth goes. Then heaven. On the top there had their mole, the chili, the glass of water, the petals represent the path, and you let the spirits know where they're going. So they know it's stopped by. They have all their favorite foods there and all that good stuff.
Go ahead, take it. Just put it. It's already hot. It's already hot. Yeah, it's hot. Just throw it. Another thing that they had on the altars was copal, which was like an incense. They believed how razor prayers up to heaven. Are you guys afraid of death as well? No. No. I know. That's happiness. Much gracias. It was very nice to them to include me in their offering by letting me lay down pedals for the path and doing to put the plate on top of the altar. Now I'm definitely feeling like I know a little bit more about what it's all about and where they're coming from with all this. Because when I got off the plane yesterday, I had no idea about any of this. And I was slowly on grasp beyond what the whole holiday is and where they're coming from. And why this makes them so happy. Wow, I did not see you there. You know, before the festival, we clean and decorate all the graves to prepare for the arrival of those who have died. For the next two nights, we are going to have a big fiesta with all of our dead relatives in the pantheons for the cemeteries for you gringos. We want to make it not only beautiful, but fun. Tonight, the Fiesta begins. Okay, so. What is this? No, we are here at the Pantheon Canada. Do they put the offer in those in here? As well. But they still have to work on this. Is this a relative of theirs? The 31st of October was sort of a day of preparation where everyone went to the market to get stuff for the off rian does, cleaning the grave, started preparing. Today is, it's all saints day. The day where they celebrate the dead children. That is that we are celebrating the kids when they die in childhood. Los Angeles, and primary embrace. Arena for the sand sculptures that they had. That blew any sand chaos I've ever seen out of the water.
Hispanic stress has two Nostradamus referencia. And November 2nd is day of the dead the day that we all came for. It's a day to celebrate the dead adults. Right now we're in the graveyard in Oaxaca and they're just, it's probably there's hundreds of people in here who celebrate in the lost and their loved ones. It's amazing how they all get together like this and celebrate. It'd just be so hard to get everyone together like this in America because you know everyone's too occupied with the TV and the Internet. It's different. It's a whole lot different than death in America. They're here celebrating right now, a lot of the graves are decorated with flowers, candles, some of them have toys. You know, some people are around eating dinner. Just kind of being there with their loved ones, even though they're not there, it's kind of just it's just they're sharing a moment with the ones that pass time. I got a toys that they have. Yeah. This Saturday night on you weren't with you. Okay, let's go. Okay. Let's go. I'm not saying. I don't know the words. Okay, but I can be telling you the words. I dance. I dance with the people. Now you gotta say. This guy's got like, he has the best grave on the block. He's got his picture and his boom box ticking out his favorite jams. Look at us.
The world is here too long he loves that I love you as well tonight we spent a good part of the night and these graveyards, which is unreal because people are actually having fun in the graveyard, you know, when was the last time you went to the graveyard had fun with your friends and family, you know, they're out here selling pinas, cotton candy. People are drinking beer. I believe the whole spirit of this night is to have fun with your friends and family. They were still here. The mujer, the Diablo. The mascara. It's like a little baby Mardi Gras. We just watched all these crazy teenagers dance against adults. We could never do that. Way, way too uncoordinated. And they're serious like four foot stops. Yeah. No. It's a whole different world out here. That was disappointing. We were just driving down this dirt road and we seen all these people blowing fire and south we pulled over and came out and there was this house party. We were here for like not even 5 minutes and there's a band, a bunch of people dancing. They gave us what is this? One, two. We got porn shade. And then the banquet and it cleared out. There's nobody here. 30 seconds.
There they are down there already. Next house, let's go. Let's go. And we have to go. We have to go. We have to go. We have to go, let's go to the next place. Bye. I think they are the dads just it's a little something for everyone, you know? I definitely believe that the day of the dead brings the families and the community closer together because it's kind of just joined out for everyone's all they're all there for the same reason they're all having fun. They're all remembering the ones that passed on. The Mexicans, they don't fear death. They embrace it. There's a Oaxaca saying that says we're not here for a long time. We're here for a good time. And that's how you need to live your life. Goodbye to all of my Friends. How do you celebrate again next year? This is senor Wesson or mister Barnes, sane. Thank you so much for showing me around. Thank you to you, really. You know, out of the box, now you show me around, you explain to me what all this is for and I appreciate it so much.