What is el dia de los muertos about?

Answer 1

The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a holiday celebrated mainly in Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage (and others) living in the United Sates and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration occurs on the 1st and 2nd of November, in connection with the Catholic holy days of All Saints' Day and All Soul's Day which take place on those days. Traditions include building private altars honoring the deceased, using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed (or toys and chocolate if they were children when they departed), and visiting graves with these as gifts.

Answer 2

The day of the dead is an all time favorite Mexican tradition that we celebrate for our relatives friends and family who had sorrowfully and sincerely passed away. Its like a holiday but for the after life ( Also known as the dead ). They celebrate this unique and colorful holiday for many reasons. They set up a table in which they put sugar hand made pastries that are in the shape of a skull. they also put many different kinds of foods from all kinds of traditional Mexican dishes to family recipes. They do this because they believe that the afterlife need foo too. They also believe that if you don't do this that your relatives will come back to haunt you. The day of the dead is a very different and unique culture and holiday that the Mexicans have brought from the past until the present.

Answer 3

El Día de los Muertos means Day of the Dead, and it is a Spanish holiday in which people honor their deceased loved ones by setting up shrines and leaving gifts.

Before the Spaniards conquered Mexico, the natives celebrated a holiday that embraced death, celebrating it as a continuation of life. When the Conquistadors arrived in Mexico, they believed that the holiday was mocking death, and tried to end it. They failed, as the natives had been celebrating the holiday for over 3000 years. Instead, the Spaniards merged the holiday with the catholic holidays of All Saints and All Souls days (November 1 & 2), thus creating a good "christian" holiday that still fulfilled the natives' old traditions.

Answer 4

El Día de los muertos is the Day of the Dead.

Answer 5

It's a holiday to celebrate are ancestors, or any one that has died.

Answer 6

El Dia de los Muertos literally translates to the Day of the Dead. It is a celebration of one's ancestors and their lives.

Answer 7

Day of the Dead