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Huejotzingo Carnival

Huejotzingo Carnival is a festival that is celebrated in the city of Huejotzingo (Puebla, Mexico) as part of celebrations marking the start of Lent in the Catholic ritual calendar.

Huejotzingo Carnival, held since 1893. This famous Carnival begins the weekend before Ash Wednesday and culminates on Tuesday. It involves around two thousand people who dress up in masks, robes, gaznes, feather headdresses, shields and rifles to transform the town's streets into a huge stage for a play of three episodes that have marked the history of Huejotzingo. As a big play in three acts that summarizes and presents the viewer with some history, culture and identity of a people, revived and embodied by its own inhabitants. One of these episodes, of major importance for the state and across the country, is the 1862 Battle of Puebla, where the Mexicans defeated the French army.

For representation, formed several battalions that will give life to both armies. The invading army is composed of zuavos, Turks and engineers, while the victorious Mexican army is made up of the Indian mountains, Zacapoaxtla. Both sides will face a tough battle, firing their muskets loaded with gunpowder, and that between the humareda the noise they cause, are a great realism to the scene. However, history has already said how to end this conflict: the French will suffer, as every year, their traditional defeat.

Another story that is presented is that of the bandit hero, legend, and in some places, even holy, Agustín Lorenzo, nineteenth-century character who stole the daughter of the corregidor Huejotzingo. The history or legend Agustin Lorenzo is also surrounded by elements of great spectacle. The thief comes to the borderline between music, rockets and bullets at the foot of City Hall. After we have sent a letter to his sweetheart with one of his assistants, the same Augustine Lawrence climbs a rope ladder to the first floor of the building and down to aid his future bride, who is already dressed in white, and specifying the abduction and started the chase.

The third episode is represented during Carnival: a marriage which symbolizes the first Indian union that took place here under the Catholic rite. However, the story of fugitive lovers not finished around three in the afternoon, a priest joined in marriage to the daughter Agustin Lorenzo del Corregidor, but the legend does not have a happy ending: The story culminates when soldiers fire and burn the hut in which he was supposedly the legendary couple.

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Battalions of the carnival

There are five types of battalions that are: Battalion Zapadores Battalion Zacapoaxtla Battalion Indians Battalion Turkish Battalion Zuavos

Depending on the battalion, the number of members varies between 40 and 290 members. Most of the soldiers are members of the battalion and each battalion also has an escort, consisting of three or more bearers and a group of musicians, to control the soldiers, is commissioned to one or more law enforcement or caregivers who assist andalusia general battalion of sappers, Zacapoaxtla, and are integrated as Zuavos comparsas when the carnival was transformed, the Indians probably came from a mountain division of Zacapoaxtla, when the latter adopted the tricolor hat.

Zapadores

The sappers carnival occupy an ambiguous position between the battalions as they are not Mexicans or foreigners, or are a little more of everything. In their dress patriotic colors are mixed from France and Mexico and their roles associated with the foreign occupation forces, including a look at his imperial eagle plumes and a pair of Mexican flags. The sappers were founded with the fair processing Canaval by Miguel and Francisco. Of all the groups, is that of the sappers who had kept their clothes with less changes.

Zacapoaxtla

During the Battle of Puebla (May 5, 1862) participated in the battalion Zacapoaxtla. This body that fight against the French, belonged to the second division, commanded by General Miguel Negrete. In Huejotzingo, recalled Captain Juan Francisco Lucas, a native of Zacapoaxtla. The battalion was in the transformation of carnival founded by Christopher Botello. Its first headquarters was located, to 1876, compared to the corner (no) from the main square. Thus, the battalion would have belonged to the third quarter or the northern suburbs. However, we found no data that allow us to establish whether, since the transformation of the carnival, the groups were linked to neighborhoods by the end of the revolution and what were then the third belonged to Zacapoaxtla table. The dress was quite similar to that of the Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla did not include a hat with slips of paper from China, adopted, probably in the twenties, since their clothes had been sophisticated into one of the more costly, its careta to 1929, was equal to that of the sappers.

Indians

The origins of this type seem to comparsas Zacapoaxtla, both linked to the Sierra Norte de Puebla, unlike the other group did not mention his name nor that of its founders. For our part, we think that the first battalion was formed of Zacapoaxtla, then when the Indians took the first hat tricolor, conserving the old mountain Zacapoaxtla whose dress uniform was no melena tricolor. The conversion of the Indians, took place in a nineteen-fifties. When they adopted the dress of the newly missing, added the cotton jantetelcos ornaments of pearls, ribbons and bows multicolored huaraches changed by tennis with colored bows, scarves increased by replacing gaznes embroidery.

Turkish

Sultan of Egypt sent at the request of Napoleon III, a battalion of blacks in the Sudan, Nubia and Abyssinia who arrived in Mexico in early 1863 to support the French intervention probably the battalion participated in the siege of Puebla. Some argue that huejotzingas why the Turks involved in the carnival, but when they know. For Arturo Warman the presence of the Turks might be reminiscent of the dances of the Moors and Christians, little by little, the battalion was finally running out of soldiers and before 1937, disappeared for several years, between 1948 and 1950 resurfaced. Then as the battalion did not belong to any particular neighborhood. Jesus Mendoza's father was responsible for reorganizing the battalion. The mask was produced by Andres Serrano, who came back with pink and blond beard. Since then the battalion has remained a comparsa "center." Year after year, has increased the number of women dressed as odalisques, those for 1988, representing almost one third of the battalion.

Zuavos

The zuavos were last century of the most famous members of the French army. Of foreign forces involved in the battle of May 5. In the carnival of the comparsa Zuavos was founded at the time of the transformation of the party, Miguel A. Suarez The members of these battalions are also known as French. After the sappers, who have kept their clothes with less changes over time. His costume is similaral of Zuavos of the time but with a full naguilla paper. The mask has undergone minor modifications: the black beard, a small, disappear, are incorporated blond mustache and sideburns Polish. The battalion had disappeared when he stole their flag and resurfaced in 1932. This was done by the emergence zuavos the fourth quarter, the main families involved in this rise were the Lozano family and Mogollan include Mr. Oliver Lozano Sunday, with the support of his family and friends that this battalion had achieved much boom in the carnival of huejotzingo currently referred families continue to participate in this beautiful carnival year after year takes place, making it one of the oldest battalions of the city of cider. noteworthy is the only battalion zuavos has two cannons that boom to the city of Huejotzingo in the traditional walk. And over time have arisen in other battalions zuavos different neighborhoods Huejotzingo. In 1988 participation zuavos the Barrio del Carmen, was Limited was formed behind the parade Zapadores of their neighborhood. In 1989, recovering its previous boom, with the participation of the family that Cardón Avoca to the task of restoring their dignity. This family has been key in many of the meetings that the Carnival of Huejotzingo offers thousands of tourists and locals enjoying the spectacle. Lorenzo Morales Cardón the Lord who holds the success and enhancement of this performance year after year has become a representation surprise, gets support from his brothers, but especially for their children have the same love for this tradition: Lorenzo , Juan Manuel and the youngest of his sons Rodolfo Cardon Seynes therefore it should be noted that for generations this family millennial immerses each small family in the beautiful Carnival Huejotzingo. Therefore it Adolfo Cardon Heaven, one of the grandchildren of Mr. Lorenzo also already part of this great tradition dignifying quality event that offers its inhabitants Huejotzingo. The first time I participated in the Adolfo battalion zuavos Cardon of the family had only 8 months of age, now has three years and a half and remains an active member.