Celebrates the 15 years

The festival the fifteen years is a traditional festival in the latino-Hispanic world, it is commonly called Quinceañera , or Quince Años . This festival corresponds to the festival of the fifteenth Anniversaire, but the ceremony is different. One gives also the name of will quinceañera with the young girl who celebrates this festival.

Celebration

The festival represents the passage of childhood to the woman for the young girl who celebrates her fifteen years. It is used as way of training for the young girl who discovers thus what is well and how to become a good wife. The ceremony, of Catholic rite , starts with a mass of thanksgivings ( Misa de Acción de Gracias ). Will quinceañera arrives in its dress of festival, often in tons pink, accompanied by his/her parents, of its large parents, seven young ladies of honor and as many applicants as she wishes it. After the mass, the younger sisters, the cousins and the friends of will quinceañera leave in first to move towards the festival while the young girl deposits her bouquet on a furnace bridge drawn up with the glory of the Virgin Mary.

The mass is followed of a festival given to the residence or in a room of reception by the family of the young girl. A certain number of dances must be danced by the young girl with her father or his boyfriend. In Colombia, for example, will quinceañera it must dance una waltz with his/her father and fifteen riders selected by this one among the friends of the young girl.

While this traditional celebration is always practiced nowadays in Latin America and of the Hispanic communities in North America, one meets alternatives which concentrate more on the desires of the young girl to celebrate and less on the religious part. In a certain number of cities, the ceremony is only one ball (Bal of the beginners).

In the cuban company

With Cuba, this festival took a very particular importance because while rich families celebrated this event in luxurious rooms of dance, the least well parcelled out, particularly the young people observed these defended festivals and wished to imitate the higher classes. The servants and other employees of the rich families, which were implied in the provisioning of these feasts, were probably the first to import this tradition in the remainder of the layers of the population.

Sometimes, of the whole families deprive themselves in order to be able to celebrate this event. It became such extensive that one declares regularly that the two most important dates in the life of a woman are her fifteen years and its marriage. Shine Carbonell, a figure of the nation which described the lifestyle of the average Cubans calls this cultural heritage Los quince of Florita .

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