On the evening of February 9, local time, the 2024 Rio Carnival kicked off on the local Samba Avenue. Photo by People's Daily reporter Chen Yiming.
On the evening of February 9, local time, the 2024 Rio Carnival kicked off on the local Samba Avenue. Photo by People's Daily reporter Chen Yiming.
At the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the main form of the samba parade is a huge float show and a performance phalanx of up to 5,000 people. On the evening of February 9, local time, the 2024 Rio Carnival kicked off on the local Samba Avenue. Photo by People's Daily reporter Chen Yiming.
At the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the main form of the samba parade is a huge float show and a performance phalanx of up to 5,000 people around it. On the evening of February 9, local time, the 2024 Rio Carnival kicked off on the local Samba Avenue. Photo by People's Daily reporter Chen Yiming.
On the evening of February 9, local time, the 2024 Rio de Janeiro Carnival kicked off on the local Samba Avenue. Brazil holds the rotating presidency of the G20 this year, and the G20 summit will be held in Rio in November, and a samba performer is pictured holding a flag with the theme of the G20 summit in Rio, which is a unique scene at this year's Rio Carnival. Photo by People's Daily reporter Chen Yiming.
People's Daily Online, Rio de Janeiro, February 13 (Reporter Chen Yiming) On the evening of February 9, local time, the 2024 Rio de Janeiro Carnival in Brazil kicked off on the local Samba Avenue.
As the largest and most internationally renowned carnival in Brazil, the Rio Carnival stars local samba dance schools, and the performance team usually spends a whole year preparing to win or advance to the samba performance competition of the carnival.
At the grand carnival, the main form of the samba parade is a huge parade of floats and a performance phalanx of up to 5,000 people around. In 1983, Oscar Niemeyer, the famous designer who designed Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, designed a 700-meter-long samba avenue lined with towering stands, solving the problem of carnival performers not finding a suitable place to perform.
According to this year's carnival schedule released by the Rio Municipal Tourism Office, eight teams from each of the first-class samba schools will take to the samba boulevard on the 9th and 10th to hold a parade of floats. On the 11th and 12th, a total of 12 teams from the Grandclass Samba School, which best represent the level of the Rio Carnival, participated in the performance. On the 17th, the top 6 teams from the Grandclass Samba School will return to Samba Avenue to conclude this year's carnival with a parade of champions.
Brazil holds the G20 presidency this year, and the G20 summit will be held in Rio in November. On the evening of the 9th, a reporter from People's Daily Online saw on Samba Avenue that samba performers held flags with the theme of the G20 summit in Rio to participate in the performance, which became a unique scene at this year's Rio Carnival.
In addition to the performances on Samba Boulevard, 453 street parades will be held throughout Rio during this year's carnival, three fewer than last year's, but the number of large carnivals in the city center has increased from eight last year to 10. According to Ronnie, president of Rio Tourism, the company received about 700 applications for parades from performing groups this year, but only 453 were approved.
According to the "Data Carnival" study released by the city of Rio recently, this year's Rio Carnival is expected to attract about 7 million tourists and local citizens from home and abroad to participate in the event, generate about 50 billion reais (1 US dollar is about 5 reais) in revenue, and generate nearly 200 million reais in tax revenue for the city of Rio.
The governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro, said a few days ago that in order to maintain order and law and order in the carnival, Rio ** will use facial recognition systems and drones and other equipment in the waterfront area of Rio City and samba performance venues, and send 1210,000 police officers patrolled the streets, while another 10,000 firefighters were on standby. **There will also be a DUI and sexual harassment campaign during the carnival period, and all float drivers who participate in the show will be subject to a breathalyzer test.
In addition, this year's Rio Carnival will be a dengue campaign to combat dengue fever in response to the surge in dengue cases. The city of Rio 2023 will register for the whole year of 2There are more than 30,000 cases of dengue fever, and the number of registered cases in the city has exceeded 10,000 in just over a month this year, and Rio declared a public health emergency on February 5. The organizers of the carnival distributed mosquito repellent and hats with warning slogans at the samba performance venue, and **15 seconds of dengue fever prevention and control videos to promote disease prevention and control information.
In addition to Rio, cities such as São Paulo, El Salvador and Recife in Brazil also hold grand carnival celebrations at the same time.