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2. Marriage and wedding customs in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   Traditional marriage customs in the Philippines and Filipino wedding practices pertain to the characteristics of marriage and wedding traditions established and adhered by them Filipino men and women in the Philippines after a period of adoption courtship and engagement. These traditions extend to other countries around the world where Filipino ...

3. Dance in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   Almost every facet of Filipino life is linked to a ritual practice and is an indication of the value and pervasiveness of rituals in folk culture. Filipino rituals are often shown in dance, because for Filipinos, dance is the highest symbolic form. It transcends language and is able to convey emotions, collective memory, and articulate their ...

4. Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines

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   A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.

5. Filipino styles and honorifics - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In the Philippine languages, a system of titles and honorifics was used extensively during the pre-colonial era, mostly by the Tagalogs and Visayans. These were borrowed from the Malay system of honorifics obtained from the Moro peoples of Mindanao, which in turn was based on the Indianized Sanskrit honorifics system [ 1] and the ...

6. Courtship in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   Traditional courtship in the Philippines is described as a "far more subdued and indirect" [ 1] approach compared to Western or Westernized cultures. It involves "phases" or "stages" inherent to Philippine society and culture. [ 1][ 2] Evident in courtship in the Philippines is the practice of singing romantic love songs, reciting poems ...

7. List of festivals in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities.

8. Baro't saya - Wikipedia

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   Tagalog maginoo (nobility) wearing baro in the Boxer Codex (c.1590). Baro't saya evolved from two pieces of clothing worn by both men and women in the pre-colonial period of the Philippines: the baro (also barú or bayú in other Philippine languages), a simple collar-less shirt or jacket with close-fitting long sleeves; [5] and the tapis (also called patadyong in the Visayas and Sulu ...

9. Bride and groom shave their heads at their wedding to honor ...

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   Guests expected the couple to enjoy a traditional Filipino wedding dance where people pin money to the bride and groom’s clothes. “It lined up perfectly because we knew culturally everyone ...