Importance Of Filipino Festivals In The Philippines

Celebrating Festivals is a big part of the Filipino culture. Filipinos love to get involved with lively and fun gatherings especially when their whole family is present and complete. One reason why Filipinos celebrate these kinds of events is to honor and remember the different saints they believe have miraculous powers. The festivals in the country are mostly pious and religious in origin but nowadays, the religious component is usually secondary to the general spirit of the celebration itself.

There are three main setbacks that relate to the witlessness of Filipinos when it comes to celebrating festivities or centenaries: unawareness especially of the youth, heritage problem, and weak sense of nationalism. To start with, young Filipinos are not aware of the different festivities in the country attributable to far geographic locations. The minority tend to focus and give importance to the jamborees that are within

One of the most outstanding decoration that everyone can see and witness in this festival is the Kiping.

Kiping is a colourful rice wafer that is arranged in two to three layers of chandeliers called arangya. It is made from rice dough and the designs of the leaves including the colors depend on the taste and mood of the local residents. During the Pahiyas Festival, the fronts of the houses are ornamented with kipings of various form and sizes. The citizens commonly display their yields in front of their households while a priest passes by to bless and sanctify it.

Pahiyas Festival which is organized annually every 15th of May aims to pay respect and admiration to Saint Isidore. It is also held per annum to showcase their products like the infamous Lucban longganisa, sinantomas which is a meat stew parallel to kaldereta, the delicious broas, and Pancit Habhab. This commemoration is also the people of Lucban’s way of saying “thank you” to the generous and munificent ingathering they receive and obtain from the