Dia de los Muertos, part 1

So what happens on el Dia de Muertos? On this day, us Mexicans, have a belief that the souls of our loved ones who have passed away and are in a better place, will come back and be with us so we can all celebrate as a community the day of the death. On this day we celebrate the death as a natural part of human existence; death for us represents the path that the death lived while they were alive: birth, childhood, and adolescence all the way to the day you die. This belief we obtain it from our ancestors because we have been doing this tradition for as long as I can remember and until this day it still remains present in Mexico. On the day of the death, some people dress up as calaveras (skeletons) , women wear mostly white dresses and will paint a skull on their face, they are known as “catrinas”; men normally wear a black and white suit and as well as women they paint a skull on their face to represent death and they are known as “catrines”. A day or two before the actual day of the day death, which is in November second, people gather together to put several stands in a plaza and each stand sells different things, such as: sugar skulls, the most known flower for el dia de los muetos: cempasuchil, and the most important factor of the night; a variety of foods like: tostadas, tortas, tacos ect. They put up this stands to make people get in the day of the death spirit and be able to bond as a community.