Describe a cultural holiday or festival that celebrates and honors deceased ancestors.
What will be an ideal response?
Students can supply one of several examples from the list below:
• In Latin America and Spain, people build altars to the departed on the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), using skulls made of sugar, marigolds, and the favorite foods of the deceased. Mexicans visit cemeteries in an attempt to communicate with the souls of the dead. They build altars and offer food, drink-tequila, mescal, pulque, and the like-and photographs to encourage the souls to visit. ?
• In many other European countries, Roman Catholics take off from work on All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, visit cemeteries with flowers and candles, and shower children with candy and toys.
• In Japan, Buddhists celebrate the Bon Festival to honor the departed spirits of their ancestors. Bon is a time for visiting one? 's hometown, reuniting with family, cleaning graves, and dancing.
• On the holiday of Chuseok, Koreans visit shrines for the spirits of their more distant ancestors and worship them. They bring offerings of food and drink to the graves of their more immediate ancestors.
• Chinese who observe the traditional Qing Ming Festival tend the graves of their departed in the spring. The seventh month of the Chinese calendar is Ghost Month, when many Chinese believe that the spirits of the dead visit Earth from the underworld.
• During the holiday of Araw ng mga Patay (Day of the Dead), bereaved families in the Philippines may camp out near grave sites for a night or two, bringing flowers, repairing tombs, and lighting candles. Families eat, drink, sing and dance, and play cards.
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