{"id":511,"date":"2011-07-25T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T23:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/?p=511"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:42:37","slug":"la-guelaguetza-or-lunes-del-cerro-monday-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/la-guelaguetza-or-lunes-del-cerro-monday-on-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Guelaguetza&#8221; or La Fiesta del Lunes en el Cerro (Monday on the hill)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate <strong>La Guelaguetza<\/strong>, also known as lunes del cerro (Monday on the hill) in Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>The word Guelaguetza means &#8220;sharing&#8221;, &#8220;offering&#8221; or &#8220;giving&#8221; in Zapotec. This festivity is the most important pre-Hispanic celebration in M\u00e9xico. It gathers the seven regions of Oaxaca and centers in traditional dancing in custom, each dance and artisan custom has cultural and historic meaning.<\/p>\n<p>For the Indigenous groups is more than dances and celebration, it represents the importance of building relationships to strengthen cooperation between communities.<\/p>\n<p>Two magnificent examples of Oaxacan art are Zapotec Rugs and Tehuana Blouses, also known as Frida Blouse.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_512\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/oscomerce\/product_info.php?cPath=34&amp;products_id=169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-512\" title=\"Zapotec Symbol of Movement\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Zapotec-Symbol-of-Movement-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Zapotec-Symbol-of-Movement-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Zapotec-Symbol-of-Movement.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zapotec Rug<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_525\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-525\" title=\"Oaxacan Blouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Mexican-Blouse-Frida-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Mexican-Blouse-Frida-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Mexican-Blouse-Frida.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican Blouse &#8220;Frida&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate La Guelaguetza, also known as lunes del cerro (Monday on the hill) in Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico. The word Guelaguetza means &#8220;sharing&#8221;, &#8220;offering&#8221; or &#8220;giving&#8221; in Zapotec. This festivity is the most important pre-Hispanic celebration in M\u00e9xico. It gathers the seven regions of Oaxaca and centers in traditional dancing in custom, each dance and <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/la-guelaguetza-or-lunes-del-cerro-monday-on-the-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-our-news-mexican-masterpieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}