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- Title:
- Don & Pô Co
- Date Created:
- 2021-06-03
- Description:
- Before winding up the chronicles of Fr. San Antonio it is important to glimpse some non-culinary changes he observed. One senses the mingling of Spanish and indio cultures in the early 1700s. Indios of rank had shifted from using the honorifics “Lakan” and “Gat” to the Castilian “Don”. He credited Tagalog for being a most cultured and formal language, citing its use of “po” and “po co”. The former was used by males, the second by females. It was discourteous to leave out either when speaking. There were many other phrases by which manners were still being well expressed. Children were being named after Pope Pio V and King Felipe V. Paternal surnames after the baptismal name, he wrote, “is now being introduced”. But men would forget their official names because once their first child was born, say Rosa, they would be known for the rest of their life as “Ama ni Rosa” (Father of Rosa). The custom was confusing for ascertaining censuses and tributes. These Spanish customs accompanied, as noted in a previous vignette, the start of men and women dressing in the Spanish way. As described in earlier stories about the end of the first colonial century, Spanish musical instruments and harmony were in place. Priests contributed food during fiestas when pig was served. Parishes became Spanish-like as they stabilized.
- Subjects:
- Spain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Social life and customs Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church Tagalog language
- Exhibition:
- J San Antonio
- Source:
- Pope Pius V (1504-1572) who was known to be severe. But during a great famine in Rome, he imported at his own expense corn from Sicily and France to feed the poor. A Dominican, he was canonised in 1712. By Palma il Giovanni. Wikipedia. Public Domain.
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- Image;Still Image
- Format:
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Don & Pô Co", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll224.html