There is nothing left to lock up this 2017 and keep it somewhere in our memory. I'm sure that if you think about it, it has been a good year, full of good moments and with good memories that will accompany you forever. In Mexico there are traditions to say goodbye to the year as it deserves, we tell you some of them.
It's time to look back and take stock of the year that has just ended. Sure, everything has happened, from good news to bad, but it's always advisable to keep the positive things that life has to offer. With love, health and work as the main incentives to face a 2018 full of energy and projects. But of course, first it is time to say goodbye to 2017 and the farewells of the year also have a series of liturgies that are worth knowing and, as far as possible, carrying out.
The year ends by eating the 12 lucky grapes, one for each chime. A tradition brought over from Spain that goes back decades. When we reach the new year it is essential to make a secret wish, toast with a glass and wish us all a happy new year and why not? also a hug and a kiss as a gesture of love and cordiality. There are those who decide to toast with a gold jewel inside the glass, generally filled with sparkling wine, as a symbol of luck and abundance for the coming months. It is always good to recommend that you also enjoy it with tequila.
In some Mexican homes, especially the more religious and practicing ones, a tradition is to go to the nearest church and attend the Misa de Gallo or the first mass on the first day to pray to the saints for luck and good wishes for the year that has just begun. But first it is time for dinner, turkey is the most repeated product in Mexican dinners to say goodbye to the year. But also pork leg, marinated loin, shrimp broth, cod or the famous romeritos. And even the pozole cannot be missing from the table on a night like this. Although the menu can vary if we choose to go out to dinner, a custom that generally in Mexico is celebrated by the youngest as a prelude to a great and special night out.
The variations of how to say goodbye to the year in Mexico differ depending on the part of the country where we are. In Michoacán, the New Year's Eve is celebrated on December 31st, in Veracruz popular music floods the streets while children celebrate "El Viejo", where the youngest children dress up as the elderly and represent the year that is ending. In Oaxaca for example a tradition is to break the clay dishes as a symbol to get rid of the old. And even in some regions of Mexico, a doll is made from old rags and filled with rockets, sometimes setting it on fire and symbolizing the burning of the bad things that the year has left us.
Whatever your way of celebrating, at Mundo Cuervo we send you our best wishes and a very happy 2018.
