Celebration for the Day of the Dead in 2023
Please check my previous blog about my trip in Campeche in Mexico 🇲🇽
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As I wrote in an earlier blog, I reconnected with a friend from my college days after almost 20 years, and I will stay in Mexico for two months with his family. Thanks, my man~!! I really appreciate for him and his family! What a great memory I had with them. I will be in Mexico during the Day of the Dead celebration when Mexico takes on a festive atmosphere. My friend's wife owns a large ranch, and her family gathered near the ranch to celebrate the "Day of the Dead" together. If you don't know about Day of the Dead celebrations, I recommend Disney's Coco as a very accessible and entertaining introduction to Mexican culture. When we arrived at the ranch, my friend's wife's mother started preparing a Mexican dish called cochinita pibil. My friend's wife was building an altar to honor her ancestors to celebrate the "Day of the Dead." She was preparing to offer marigold flowers and welcome the spirits of her ancestors.
先のブログに書いたように、ほぼ２０年ぶりぐらいに大学時代の友人に再会し、メキシコで２か月滞在することになりました。 偶然ではあるのですが、メキシコ全土がお祭りの雰囲気になる、「死者の日」のお祝いの日にメキシコに滞在することになりました。 友人の奥さんは大きな牧場を経営していて、その牧場の近くで家族が集まりみんなで「死者の日」をお祝いすることになりました。 もし、「死者の日」のお祝いについてまだ知らない人は、ディズニーのCocoという作品がお勧めです。 「死者の日」を題材にした作品で、とても分かりやすくかつ、楽しくメキシコ文化を紹介しています。 牧場へ着くなり、友人の奥さんのお母さんはメキシコ料理の cochinita pibil （コチニタピビル）の準備に取り掛かっていました。 友人の奥さんは「死者の日」をお祝いするために、ご先祖様を祀った祭壇を作っていました。 マリーゴールドの花をお供えして、あでやかに先祖の霊をお迎えする準備を進めていました。
Celebration for the Day of the Dead at the ranch my friend and his wife own
My friend's wife's parents own a large ranch, and my friend wants to run a shelter for shelter dogs that he wants to build in the future on this ranch, while helping his aging wife's parents run their ranch. It was a big land with many bananas and other tropical plants. They also planted several kinds of citrus fruits. Imagining that in a few years, the land beside this ranch will be beautifully landscaped, I thought that I would like to come back someday.
友人の奥さんのご両親は大きな牧場を経営していて、友人も高齢になる奥様のご両親の牧場経営を助けながら、自分が将来的に作りたい保護犬の施設をこの牧場で経営したいと考えているようです。 本当に大きな土地で、バナナや他の熱帯地方の植物をたくさん植えていました。 柑橘類も何種類か植えていて、数年後、この牧場脇の土地がきれいに整備される姿を想像しながら、またいつか来たいなぁと思いました。
There were beds in a hut on the side of the ranch where everyone was supposed to stay after the "Day of the Dead" celebration. I also had the experience of sleeping in a hammock for the first time in my life, in a hammock provided by my friend. Hammocks are very popular in southern Mexico, and sleeping in a hammock at home seems to be very common. My friends insisted on setting up a tent and camping on the property, and we all pitched our tents.
牧場の脇にある小屋にはベットがあって、「死者の日」のお祝いの後はそこで皆が泊まることになっていました。 わたしも友人が用意してくれたハンモックで人生初のハンモックで寝るという経験をここでしました。 メキシコ南部はハンモックが人気で、家でハンモックを使って寝るというのがとても一般化しているようです。 友人たちはテントを張って、敷地内でキャンプをすると言い出し、みんなでテントを張りました。
Preparation for underground oven for cochinita pibil
In a hut next to the farm, my friend's wife's mother and her older sister were preparing cochinita pibil while her father was preparing an underground oven in which to cook the cochinita pibil. That's right, we dug a hole in the ground and built an oven there. Not speaking any Spanish at all, I had no idea what his father in law was doing at first. I asked my friend how to cook cochinita pibil, and I thought, "I see," so I gathered stones and wood. First, we made a big hole in the ground. Then we burned a lot of the wood we had collected and put more and more stones into the hole. We burn the stones until they are hot and then spread banana leaves on top of them. Then we place the food, wrap it again with banana leaves on top of it, and then cover it with soil and steam it all night.
牧場横の小屋の中では友人の奥さんのお母さん達が cochinita pibil の料理を準備し、その間にお父さんはその cochinita pibil を調理する地下のオーブンを準備していました。 そうなんです、地面に穴を掘って、そこにオーブンを作ります。 スペイン語が全然話せないわたしは、お父さんが何をしているのか初めは全くわかりませんでした。 友人に cochinita pibil の調理方法を聞き、なるほどーと思い、石を集めたり、木を集めたりしました。 はじめは地面に大きな穴をあけます。 そこに、集めた木をたくさん燃やし、そこへ石をどんどん入れていきます。 石を熱くなるまで焼き、その上に、バナナの葉っぱを敷き詰めます。 そして、料理を置き、その上にまたバナナの葉っぱで料理を包み、その後は土をかぶせて一晩中蒸します。
I was a little tired from building the basement oven, and when I went to the hut for a beer, everyone was making many of the ingredients for cochinita pibil. They were seasoning the dough made from corn with hot boiled chicken and pumpkin mashed into the filling. The bones were neatly removed from the chicken. Since they were boiling several whole chikens, they also prepared the entrails and other parts of the bird for different dishes. Corn, squash, and beans seem to be very important ingredients in Mexico, and all three are used in many Mexican dishes. They quickly spread the corn dough on the banana peel and added the ingredients to the dough. While cooking, we heard many stories. My friend is very fluent in Spanish, and it is rare to find an American who can speak a second language. I asked the friend to tell me about cochinita pibil to her mother. The mother married the father and moved to Campeche, but in Oaxaca, where the mother is from, they do not eat cochinita pibil, which is a food from the Mayan period. She told me that she learned how to make cochinita pibil from her mother-in-law after marrying into Campeche, where the Mayan culture remains strong.
地下オーブンを作っていると、少し疲れ、ビールを飲みに小屋に行くと、みんなが cochinita pibil の具材をたくさん作っていました。 トウモロコシで作った生地に湯がいた鶏肉とカボチャを潰した具材に味付けをしていました。 鶏肉からきれいに骨を取り除いていました。 鳥を丸ごと数匹茹でるので、鳥の内臓や他の部位は違う料理に使う準備をしていました。 トウモロコシ、カボチャ、マメはメキシコではとても大切に扱われている具材の様で、色々なメキシコ料理のその３種類の具材が使われています。 バナナの皮の上に手際よくさっさとトウモロコシで作った生地を拡げ、そこへ具材を入れて準備をしていました。 料理をしながらたくさんの話を聞きました。 友人はスペイン語がとても流暢で、第二言語を話せるアメリカ人なんて珍しいですよね。 その友人に頼み、お母さんに cochinita pibil の話を聞きました。 お母さんはお父さんと結婚したためカンペチェに嫁いだのですが、お母さんの出身地である Oaxaca （オアハカ州） ではこのマヤ時代からの食べ物である、 cochinita pibil は食べないようです。 マヤ文化が色濃く残るカンペチェに嫁いで来て、お姑さんにこの cochinita pibil の作り方を習ったと言っていました。
Through this trip, I really felt that it would have been fun if I could have spoken Spanish. I had several opportunities to study Spanish when I was in college, but I ended up not learning it, and now I wish I had learned to speak it. I made many friends in Mexico, and I hope to study Spanish a little bit more so that I can have a conversation with everyone in Spanish when I go back next time. I am looking forward to my next visit to Mexico.
この旅行を通して、マジでスペイン語が話せたら楽しかっただろうなぁと感じました。 大学時代、何度かスペイン語を勉強する機会があったのですが、結局は習わずに今日に至り、やっぱり少しでも話せる様になってたらよかったなぁと後悔しています。 メキシコにたくさんの友達が出来たので、スペイン語を少しづつ勉強して、次またいつか行くときには皆さんとスペイン語で会話が出来たらいいなと思います。 次にメキシコに行く日が楽しみです。
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