Pahiyas Festival is a bright and
beautiful feast which occurs on the 15th of May by locals of Lucban,
Quezon, commemorating the San Isidro Labrador, as well as farmers’ thanks for a
bountiful harvest. The celebration itself has been celebrated all the way back
to the 16th century, and legend was that San Isidro Labrador would
magically plow the farmer’s crop whenever he left the local church. There is a
vibrant array of colors displayed in the festival using various fruits,
vegetables, and hand-crafted items in every house in town.
In the parade itself, there are a
lot of customs:
- A procession, with big papier mâché statues of a farmer and his wife, followed by a patron saint, with a basket that holds biscuits to be given to children
- Streets and homes are decorated with the seasons harvest, including fruits, vegetables, rice grains/stalks, flowers, ferns and rice wafers
- A competition to see whose home is the most creatively decorated, of which the decorations of the house will be taken down to be fed to festival-goers for free
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Displaying of harvest so that the local parish
priest may “bless” the food as the procession passes by
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