Rio Carnival is the unique event where amazing modern era meets with the old and ancient one. This meeting is truly spectacular for the whole world. Celebration at Rio is the most high tempo incident with lot of fun and frolic. The earlier events at Rio Carnival have proved this every time and will continue in the future too. This carnival has a great impact from the Native Americans and Africans staying in this very land.
Rio Carnival is the place of continuous and inner flow of exuberance and cheerfulness. Here people show their skills and passions for fun and merry making. During the carnival days, people are fully loaded and drenched with the music, dance and fun. This is reflected through their vibrantly colored costumes and body paintings. The names of the costumes worn by people are also very unique by themselves. These are known as Agua Apocalipse, Damaru, Bumba, Antiquissimo and many such more. These colorful and well-designed costumes make the event more memorable.
It is assumed that Rio Carnival was started during 1800 and that time it was a place for rich people dress-up or costume party. But now it is a place for everyone and anybody can participate and enjoy the event. So, why wait? Get ready to make your mark at the lively event of fun and true enjoyment.
The history of Rio Carnival goes long back around 1723. The Portuguese refugees from the islands of Cabo Verde and Acores started it. The idea behind the carnival was to get everyone drenched. The people used to carry their own buckets and lime and went on to the streets where they can victimize other people and throw water at them. The carnival was popular that even the royals used to become a part of it.
Ze Pereira made a great contribution to the vast history of the Rio Carnival. Jose Nogueira de Azevedo, a Portuguese shoemaker contributed it in the XIX Century. Jose used to go out on the streets with his friends and used to play drums, whistles on every Mondays of the carnival. On the other hand, the Grandes sociedades or the Great Societies used to arrange parades, which made its debut in 1855 in the presence of the ruler. This parade consisted of 80 aristocrats who used to wear luxury costumes and march with flowers along the music. The three most popular groups were Tenentes do Diabo, Fenianos and democraticos.
Cordao Carnavalesco is another fun activity that is associated with the history of Rio Carnival. This activit debuted in 1870. The main characters in this activity included kings, queens, witches, dancers and they performed according to the dresses they wear.
All these fun activities in the Rio Carnival helps the people of Rio to forget about the problems that they are facing in their day-to-day life and have some fun. Though, the Rio Carnival is very popular among the locals but still there are some communities, which opposes it. But the communities, which are in favor of having fun, enjoy it with full enthusiasm and in the same way they enjoy their soccer and samba.
Rio Carnival is famous around the globe. Thousands of people wearing colorful dresses and marching is a wonderful scene. But very few people know that all these colorful dresses and parades are because of the annual parade competition. Fourteen of the top most samba schools fight it out to win the competition. The parameters of judging are, the music, drum section, and synchronization. It is very serious competition. Every year, the second division topper is promoted in the first division whereas the bottom team in the first division goes into the second division. The second division teams perform on Saturdays whereas the first division teams takes up the center stage on Sundays & Mondays.
Every school performs their act in 60-80 minutes. Vehicles and a group of around 200 people accompany every performance and each member wears a different costume. If you want to participate, you can buy a costume and join the group.
If you want to participate, you can buy the costume of any of the teams and then just wait with them for your chance to come. I was lucky enough to participate with Alegria da Zona Sul 5 years ago. We were dressed in red & white outfits wearing golden shoes, waiting outside the Sambódromo for our turn.
The parade kicked off with the fireworks. Our marching started. With drums playing, we were singing the team song and soon we entered the stadium. We were being seen by almost ten thousand people. Our parade lasted for 60 minutes. The stadium was full of colors, music playing and fireworks.
If you really want to enjoy the Carnival, you must take the experience of the parades buy marching along one of the many teams. It is a lifetime experience.
Kiss is always considered as a sign of love between two peoples but when one take it as a game, the enjoyment and fun gets twice. In Rio carnival a kiss is taken in this way only, here one will kiss maximum number of people which he/she can do in the crowd, even the unknown person or stranger is taken as this sport part. It’s regardless that it’s one’s first carnival or 25th, missing it means missing the great fun.
In this carnival ladies are ready to kiss number of guys whom she can do and guys are all set for giving smooch to as many ladies as they can, and if one is an excellent kisser the familiarity can be a great one. This is a game which publicized as a no losing and no winning courtship and has a different kind of reviews in the minds of all participants.
Different people have different opinion about this game, for some it’s a fun and for few it is an inhibitory action. Whatever one’s think about it is hardly matters, whenever one’s do it for fun for sure he/she will enjoy it. No one can kiss strangers in their daily lives that are why he/she should not miss the fun at Rio carnival and enjoy it at fullest. In enjoying it one can also forgets all his/her stresses and worries.
One should be ready to choose as many smart partners as he/she can in the crowd, and specially the cute ones amongst those.
