Our Traditions are still alive amidst the ongoing Pandemic!

 

Fiesta is a time of joyful celebration of us Filipinos. Fiesta is one of the special and important events because they merge and nurture culture, history, and family. We also celebrate fiesta for the honor of our patron saints. But during these times, Fiesta is more enjoyable compared to previous years because of the ongoing pandemic.

           The Vigan City fiesta is held every 25^th of January. Celebrating Vigan Fiesta this 2021 in the middle of pandemic shows us how important our culture. The Vigan City fiesta is held in honor of St. Paul the Apostle. Every year, locals and tourists gather to experience and to watch the street dancing, food fairs, arts and crafts, and carnivals. Celebrating this kind of fiestas is very important mostly to the people who really embraced the culture of it. Culture is a word for the “way of life” of groups of people, meaning the way they do things. Our culture is the thing that makes us different from other people. Celebrating fiestas during this pandemic is very different than before. Compared to previous years, it is obviously more festive before. It is common to Biguenos from all over the country and even abroad to return to Vigan, as it is automatically Filipinos to return to their hometown to join their friends and families in the celebration of their fiesta.  Vigan City fiesta is not complete without the street dancing completion, food fair, carnivals, and arts and crafts exhibits. But I don’t think these activities can be done because of the ongoing pandemic.

                               

Our culture is a very important part of a place. Our culture is the one who guide and shape us. It is one of the proof who and what we came from. For me, culture is a cycle that you need to pass it on to the next generation. Celebrating Vigan Fiesta is very commendable and how happy I am that people will never forget to celebrate it in the middle of pandemic and we are able to celebrate it and keep our traditions and do it safely.

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