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Re: [ranchos] Tayagua, Zacatecas/How do you Celebrate?

 
From what I know is that most every home built their own manger some which were very elaborate.
 
Posadas were and are still a major part of the Christimas celebration. The children and their families travel with Jose and Maria seeking lodging during Advent. At the last home of the evening they serve beverages made from sugar cane and fresh fruits steeped in sweetened water. Each family makes their beverage slightly different. They then have a Pinata for the children and they are filled with candies called colaciones and other assorted candies.
 
Gifts were not a part of Christmas in the early days. Children would set their shoes out on Christmas Eve and wait for El Nino Dios to fill their shoes with hard candies. And of course being mostly Catholic there was midnight mass with a procession and mass again on Christmas Day.
 
I'll talk to my mom to get more facts.
 
Feliz Navidad a todos,
 
Alicia Carrillo

Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

for those of you looking in the Villanueva area. I was looking at film: 1158678 the other day and found about 8 years worth of death records [1767-1775 about] for the hacienda de Tayagua on this mostly bautismos film. I've seen that some are looking in Tayahua but am unsure if this is the same place. Just FYI.

joseph

ps: Someone asked me how "we" celebrate christmas. And for the life of me all I could think about was Tamales and later on New Years Menudo. A meal and exchange of presents.

Does anyone know of how the people of Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes celebrated Christmas in earlier years?


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