The transition of adolescent women is celebrated in different ways at different ages in the world. In Mexico, it has a very particular roots and is celebrated when girls fifteenth birthday. It does not mean that girls are just ready to get married as some think outside tradition. Rather, those girls can present as adults in appropriate social events.
The origins of the Quinceaneras date back to the traditions of the Mayan culture. They performed rituals to indicate the passage from childhood to adult life of women, as well as the acceptance of certain freedoms and responsibilities. The Aztecs held a religious ceremony similar to a Quinceaneras where mothers advised their daughters and preparing for marriage.
Almost taken for granted that it was the Spanish conquistadors who brought the Quinceanera into Mexico. In fact, the celebration as it is now is an adaptation to Christianity of the Aztec Women’s Ceremony.
The Quinceanera is a highly Catholic tradition but is also celebrated in other Christian churches. The conquerors took the pagan celebration and turned to the church as well as other ceremonies like Quinceaneras in an effort to catholic the Aztec people. The dance was replaced by the Valtz and the Aztec altar of the Christian altar.
The celebration of the Quinceanera in Mexico, is a social initiation ritual, inspired by the dances for beginners of the societies of the English nobility and gentry of the nineteenth century French, in which young people (normally 14 to 16 years), were attending their first public presentation, which was key to the future of the girls, their performance and development, and social status of parents, assured him meet men for marriage.
From the early twentieth century, it is customary in Mexico the celebration of "seasons of dance", promoted by the upper classes of Porfirio Diaz, these events were reproduced by the lower classes, with some variations.
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