MUCECCH - Museo Centro Cultural del Chinelo

Pleasant space with elements that give us identity and a very beautiful esplanade.

Chinelo origins: During the carnival festivities, brought by the Spanish, who celebrated it according to their customs, in the capital as well as in the provinces and towns. In the work of Don Alejandro Ortíz Padilla "An approach to the origin of Chinelo, its dance and music", Don Brígido Santamaría Morales narrates that: in Tlayacapan in the year 1867, according to his grandfather and uncles, as well as many Old folks in town, there was a habit of whistling. In the town there was no party for the poor people but pure to work as slaves, as inferior people, the people in those times were not free, the landowners and the Spaniards who worked on the haciendas owned everything, and at parties carnival, these abusive, took over the entire town to celebrate the so-called carnivals, disguised in their own way, dressed in knee-length black pants, white stockings, short jackets full of tassels and flaps, with red skirt, cape and beret to the bullfighter or big chambergos with fluffy feathers, and dancing "jotas aragonesas", with masks on their faces, this was to walk the three days of the carnival singing and scandalizing in the streets with their drunkenness. While the people did nothing, they just watched, but one day a group of boys and men of adulthood gathered in some parts of the town and using their thoughts in a great discussion they spoke to find a game, because they were very bored, because they were young in the "chincual" age, of restlessness, and the older ones were happy old people, that is why they were looking for a game in which everyone would be distracted in those days that they did not have to go to work in the fields of the haciendas . The Spanish give up to the peons those days off, as a gesture of pity and to gain indulgences, before entering Lent on Ash Wednesday. So the mestizo as a relief for the bad treatment and the bad payment they received from their employers in the Haciendas of: San Nicolás Tolentino de Pantitlán, Oacalco, San Carlos Borromeo and San Diego Huixtla, they also decided to have fun in that same season, mocking from the same "gachupines" patterns and this is how a gang formed by the so-called Huehuentsin was born, which means: -Old- or also called "Garroteros", because they carried with them some garrocheras with which they jumped leaning on them, imitating this it forms the acts of lightness and daring that the Spanish used to see in bullfights. He also gave them to carry stuffed animals such as: raccoons, iguanas, skunks, owls and vipers, making jokes to the daughters and wives of the landowners; others carried old rag dolls or tsompantli dolls, which made them jump in a trough, others wore clothing, lashing out and ridiculing the landowner, the foreman, the agiotist and even the village priest, without missing a character who dressed in a bathrobe. sleep of the rich ladies of that time. As a flag they used a reed chicol to which they tied a rag, this was to indicate the route of the gang through the streets of the town. It is worth mentioning that ridiculing the priest was due to the fact that he was opposed to this celebration in addition to prohibiting jaripeo, firing rockets and lighting toritos.

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