"Xiao, did you have fun today?"
As soon as she returned to the compound, she was greeted by an old Mexican lady who was the landlord of the place, Melda, who was cutting paper in preparation for the Day of the Dead.
Her family is also busy.
Most Mexicans prefer to live together as a family, for them: 'nothing is more important than family'.
Mexicans are very similar to many Chinese traditions, and paper-cutting is one of them, and their paper-cutting style is very Chinese and Shandong folk paper-cutting, which looks rough and bold, but the details are in line with the subtle and complicated style of the Han Dynasty portrait stone.
During the Day of the Dead, such cutouts are everywhere.
"Of course, it's a beautiful place!"
Xiao Peng said sincerely.
Old Lady Melda smiled, "Of course, thank God for giving birth to me in such a beautiful place. ” Xiao Peng looked at the paper-cut works of the old lady Melda, well, the content is mostly skeletons, and there are some small animals.
"Melda, I can understand these skeletons, what are these animals?
This is......
Snake?
Dog?
Cat?
Horse?
Why do they all have wings?
And butterflies?
Oh, butterflies are meant to have wings。。。。。。
Xiao Peng asked curiously.
Melda laughed, "This is Eppolegi, and in our legend, this is the Soul Guide, and when a person dies, the soul will follow Eppole into the Land of the Dead." ” This Day of the Dead is also a good opportunity for Melda's family to make money------ and every year at this time, it is really a family mobilization.
The family has been running a stall in Piazza Hidalgo in the Coyoacán district for years, selling items about the Day of the Dead.
During the festive season, this Piazza Hidalgo closes the road and becomes a place of opportunity for the festival.
Among the items they sell is 'Bread of the Dead'.
Almost all Wren's Day merchants sell this bread, which may not be healthy in the ingredients, but it is definitely very tasty, using a lot of butter for the filling, sprinkled with cinnamon and frosting sugar.
You can buy this kind of bread of the dead, because almost all the stalls taste the same, and the difference between them is the shape------ although there are only several shapes of bread of the dead, but each one corresponds to a different symbolic meaning.
There is also a kind of corn soup, well, to be precise, Xiao Peng doesn't know if this is corn soup or not, what is in the soup can't be drunk at all, it's sweet and salty, and the taste is thick.
Served in a clay pot.
These clay pots are very beautiful, with a variety of patterns painted on them, and many people drink it just to get this small clay pot.
Melda's second son was there to paint clay pots with the children.
And where Melda's daughter-in-law makes sugar, all kinds of fudge, chocolate, hard candy bars------ in a word, all of them are skeletons and the image of 'Eppoligi'.
Melda's husband, on the other hand, didn't see anyone.
Xiao Peng asked curiously, and Melda replied to him proudly: "Our stall is in the 'National Folk Museum', relying on my husband's craftsmanship, and we are all pediatrics." ” Next to Plaza Hidalgo is the 'National Folklore Museum', where only the best artisans can set up their stalls, and Mexican crafts are known for their sophistication and specialness.
So Xiao Peng was also curious, and followed Melda to secretly see her husband's craftsmanship, and he and his eldest son made pottery statues, paper dolls and puppets.
These are things that you can't find outside of Mexico.
And there is only one of each, which is a strange commodity to live in, and the price is not cheap.
Xiao Peng's eyes lit up------ this is a good gift for his wife and children!
Take paper dolls as an example, it should be said that they are pulp dolls, He wanted to serve it directly, but who knew that Melda and her husband didn't want to------- if these were sold, then Melda and the other would not be able to sell the undead bread and the like。。。。。。
In the end, the two sides reached an agreement, and the things were still sold to Xiao Peng, but Melda and his family were allowed to display them when they set up a stall to attract customers, but they were not allowed to sell them。。。。。。
However, these Mexicans are indeed very similar to the Chinese, and they are very industrious.
Her two daughters-in-law have such big bellies, and they are still doing it happily.
"Melda, your daughter-in-law has such a big belly, why do you still make them work so hard?"
Xiao Peng asked.
Melda smiled: "There's no way, take advantage of the 'Day of the Dead' to earn more money, send the two of them to the Stars and Stripes Country to have a baby and come back."
It takes a lot of money, so you need to make a little more. ” Xiao Peng was stunned: "Do you also go to the Stars and Stripes Country to have a baby?"
” Melda nodded and said, "Yes, so that the child can zero tax return in the future, and he can also get benefits, which is very important for a family like ours, you see my eldest grandson, he is the birth paper he took in the Star and Stripes Country."
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Do you have anyone in China who does this?
” Xiao Peng laughed: "A lot, after the child was born in the Stars and Stripes Country, he took the Stars and Stripes passport and returned to China directly, first went to the Stars and Stripes Embassy in China to sign the declaration of renunciation of nationality, and then went to the Huaxia household registration, and waited until the child was eighteen years old and took the birth paper to the Stars and Stripes Embassy to claim that he was an adult, and then took back the Stars and Stripes International.
Who made the Stars and Stripes dictate that eighteen years olds with their birth papers could decide their nationality again?
Therefore, many problematic parents in Huaxia are taking advantage of this loophole. ” "No, no, no, we don't do it, we're just doing it for tax exemption.
Mexico's tax policy is just too unfriendly to us civilians.
"We're not going to the Stars and Stripes, there's nothing good there, it's full of addicts。。。。。。
” Xiao Peng scratched his head, didn't you send you over there for a lot of addicts and drugs?
However, Xiao Peng also had fun, and followed Melda's husband to make paper dolls, which were like pinching plasticine, but they were made of pulp.
It seems simple, but it's still very difficult to actually operate。。。。。。
Looking at Xiao Peng's clumsy appearance, Melda's son handed over Xiao Peng to make a pottery skull, which is a skull made of clay, painted with patterns and patterns of various colors, and the colorful ones are quite good-looking, but in all fairness------ it looks really infiltrating!
How can Mexicans love skeletons?
Xiao Peng's long-awaited 'Day of the Dead' has finally arrived, it is a festival divided into two days, the first day is the 'Young Soul's Day', so the children are dressed up.
This day is the time for Mexican parents to use their imaginations, all kinds of cute 'little goblins' all over the road, some children are dressed up in the image of traditional skeletons, and more children are all kinds of cute cartoon ghosts, very similar to Western Halloween children, but the most common, is a family of three dressed up as demons and ghosts, playing with their children.
And the children are often very engaged in performing and full of desire to perform.
Sometimes the 'ghost' parents are embarrassed, and the children have already begun to play ghosts.
Xiao Peng saw 'little vampires', 'little devils', 'little zombies' here, and even saw McDonald's brother and KFC grandpa who were 'donating blood'。。。。。。
Seeing them having fun, Xiao Peng missed his own children。。。。。。
But at the thought of the possible leakage of the news, Xiao Peng could only endure it, took a lot of photos, bought a lot of souvenirs, and waited to tell the children the story here when he went back.
In the future, be sure to bring the children to the festival and dress up with them for the festival.
And the next day's 'Day of the Dead' is the highlight of this 'Day of the Dead'.
At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, before it was dark, people gathered in Piazza Hidalgo from all directions, and although the police had been trying to divert traffic, dozens of nearby neighborhoods were basically blocked.
It's really Piazza Hidalgo, it's called a sea of people.
The square also has a stage similar to a circus tent, as well as an elaborately decorated gazebo.
These gazebos are the altars of the Day of the Dead, and the gazebo is surrounded by the image of a large full-body skeleton, but these skeletons made of foam are colorful, and they don't look scary, just funny.
The most common figure in the crowd is a female skeleton in a dress, which has become a symbol of Mexico.
Not everyone wears makeup on Day of the Dead, but the vast majority of people who wear makeup for the Day of the Dead are women.
These female skeletons have a proper name, the 'Katrina Skull', and this image has long been a symbol of Mexico!
Nowadays, most of people's skull costumes are imitations of the 'Katrina skull'.
This image prototype was created in 1913 by the Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, and was portrayed as a humorous and happy 'Lady of Death'.
In fact, he meant to mock the poor Indians for trying to learn the appearance of 'noble' Gallic women.
It was used to satirize the hypocrisy of the European aristocracy and to express the impact on Indian culture, and as a result, it was loved by Mexicans from the moment it was born, and thousands of girls dressed as 'Katrina skulls' took to the streets on Day of the Dead.
There are also many makeup artists at the scene who pay to help people make up on the spot, and Xiao Peng is no exception, he found a female makeup artist and painted a skull face for himself.
It's a lot of fun to mingle in the crowd.
In all fairness, it's really 。。。。。。
for these girls to dress up like this Beautiful!
According to the aesthetic standards of Chinese people, many Mexican girls are not beautiful.
Because I think the Mexican girl has too dark skin, like the feeling of the Indian three.
However, after disguised as a 'Katrina skeleton', this shortcoming is perfectly concealed, and only a pair of bright big eyes can be seen------ Mexican girls are generally very beautiful, like jewels.
These young girls who make up as 'Katrina skeletons' will put extra effort into this, in addition to the skeletal face like a painting, they will also be decorated with a lot of metal, crystal patches, and some even make a fuss about the eye color and teeth, and the makeup is not only limited to the face, what neck, chest, arms, legs are all makeup.
Even some people can't see the place with makeup------ don't ask Xiao Peng how he knows!
Xiao Peng is not a saint, he has been holding back at home for so many years, and he can bear it when he meets a passionate Latin American woman?
The strange beauty of this Mexican girl dressed up as a 'Katrina skeleton' is really heartwarming.
(Xiao Peng, are you perverted?)
） Maybe Mexico's infrastructure and transportation make Xiao Peng dissatisfied, but Xiao Peng really has no objection to this 'Day of the Dead', this is really a good holiday.
After attending the celebration, Xiao Peng wanted to take away the gifts he had bought from Melda's house, but found that there were too many things.
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He could have taken the ring back.
But in full view of everyone, he couldn't do this, so he had to make an appointment with Melda to get it another day.
He's going back to drive.
However, he still spent another night at Melda's house, because Melda strongly held him after knowing that Xiao Peng was leaving.
This is because their business this year has earned more than any other year------ after all, the expensive souvenirs made by her husband have made Xiao Peng round, so after the celebration, they feasted Xiao Peng.
Treat Xiao Peng to homemade 'chipotle', also known as burritos.
If you ask the people of Stars and Stripes what they like to eat the most?
It's not a burger, fries, steak, pizza, but this burrito, and many Stars and Stripes people travel to China, and the most memorable local food is also this 'chipotle'.
This kind of burrito is also divided into two kinds, as for the so-called 'Mexican chicken wrap' that is well known to Chinese people, there is really no such thing in Mexico, just as there is really no 'California beef noodle' in California, they are all things that sell dog meat on the head of a sheep.
Mexico only has 'tack' with grilled chicken.
And the Mexican wine, which has to be said 'tachira', well, which is agave.
In addition to loving corn, Mexicans love agave, they don't drink tequila like other countries, it is salted and sprite, whether this Mexican is a girl or a man, drinking agave is a neck and a stomach!
That's called a boldness!
However, Xiao Peng doesn't like agave, but likes to drink a drink called 'pule', which is also fermented and brewed by agave and a plant similar to agave, the alcohol content is very low, like beer, but there are not so many bubbles, it is really the best summer, full of agave taste, I feel weird when I first drank it, and it really tastes good when I get used to it.
Xiao Peng was ready to bring a batch and drink it slowly.
And the hospitality of Mexicans is also vividly reflected in this banquet, everyone plays the guitar and sings together------ I feel that there is no one in Mexico who can't play the piano and can't sing!
This is also a nation that can sing and dance!
What makes Xiao Peng speechless the most is that if someone in Huaxia sings and makes trouble in the middle of the night, the neighbor must call the police and say that they are disturbing the people, but what is the result here?
The neighbors came to knock on the door after hearing the singing and laughter, Xiao Peng thought they were going to protest, but the neighbors came to celebrate with food and drinks------ they didn't know what was going on and came to join in the fun, after all, more people are fun!
Early the next morning, Xiao Peng said goodbye to the enthusiastic Melda family and returned to Anna's house, ready to drive to pick up the souvenirs he had bought.
As a result, as soon as he arrived at the gate of Anna's house, Xiao Peng's face turned green.
His beautiful Hummer H2 was somehow dragged out of the gate, and the whole car was smashed!
This Nima Xiao Peng couldn't help it!
Smash my car?
Look for death!