MAY IS NATIONAL HERITAGE MONTH and I am one with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts with the theme #MgaKwentongPamana or Stories of Heritage by sharing some of the stories of our heritage and I will start with chicken.

What is your Chicken Story? What comes to your mind when you hear the word chicken?

Is it your heirloom recipe of Adobo?

Is it the chicken joy from Jollibee?

Is it the chicken that is with San Pedro?

Is it the chicken blood that is marked on your forehead on your birthday?

Is it the old gallinera bench where visitors placed their chicken which are given as a gift to the owner of the house before?

Is it the Misa de Gallo or the Simbang Gabi?

Gallo’s literal meaning in Spanish is rooster. And a rooster is actually a symbol of a new dawn which all of us are hoping for in this time of pandemic.

Whatever your answer is to the questions is actually your Pamana Story of one of our natural cultural heritage.

As for my family, what we won’t forget was Chow-Chow, the pet chick of my sister that she dearly loved but died in her arms and so she buried it on our backyard with an epitaph and flowers. And since we don’t raise chicken now here’s a photo of our wooden chicken with my nephew, Rhylle.

#NationalHeritageMonth #NHM #VictoryAndHumanity #Ph500 #NCCA #1YearTo500Years