1st of may

During the first of may every year people go around their villages up the mountain and in the fields to collect flowers ( mostly margaritas since that’s the flower of the season ), not only do they pick flowers but they also have picnics and sometimes even fly kites. After they are done the get a thread and needle and pierce each flower one by one in order for them to form a beautiful and colourful flower crown which they wear for the rest of the day. The next morning the hand the flower crown somewhere outside of their house for good luck. The flower crown is kept there till the end of spring and the coming of summer where they burn it at the end of that day. The first of may is also labor day

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