The Malangsi Festival in Pangasinan

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MALANGSI FESTIVAL

Malangsi Festival is celebrated every 8th to 12th of April located in the town of Bayambang, province of Pangasinan. “Malangsi” is a Pangasinan term which means fishy. Bayambang is known for its fish products such as mudfish (dalag), catfish (pantat), and gurami, which are sourced out from the town’s Mangabul Lake. Read More: https://greedypeg.org/pangasinan/Malangsi-Festival.html

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Town of Bayambang Pangasinan will celebrate the Malangsi Festival on April 8 – 14, 2012. “Malangsi” is a Pangasinan term which means fishy. Bayambang is known for its fish products such as mudfish (dalag), catfish (pantat), and gurami, which are sourced out from the town’s Mangabul Lake.

Executive committees of Malangsi Festival are now busy preparing and inviting visitors to join in the celebration to witness their Kalutan ed Dalan at Street Party slated on April 13.

The local government has prepared 500 grills for the grilling and street party “Kalutan tan Gayaga ed Dalan”. Each grill will cost P2, 500 and it can accommodate at least five kilos of different kinds of fishes. The grilling will start from Rizal Street in front of the Royal Mall. – asensopangasinan.com

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The 1st Malangsi Festival was held last March 31 in the town of Bayambang, the southernmost town of the province of Pangasinan in the central plains of Luzon Island, Philippines. It was one of the main highlights of the town’s 395th annual fiesta. The name of the festival is derived from the word “malangsi”, the Pangasinan vernacular equivalent of the Filipino dialect’s “malansa” — the smell of a raw fish. “Malangsi” is the generic reference to the various species of freshwater fishes abundant in the locality.

Bayambang town is famous as the premier source of freshwater fishes like the pantat (hito in the Filipino vernacular) or the catfish (order Siluriformes),guele-guele (or dalag in the Filipino vernacular) or mud fish and the gurami (a freshwater fish known to have originated from Central Java in Indonesia).

Dressed in costumes in fish motifs, elementary and high school students from the ten districts of Bayambang danced through the major streets around the town plaza depicting their folk life such as the traditional “kemel” (fish harvest). An employee at the Bayambang Municipal Council said the Bayambang local government spent close to P800,000 for the costumes of the more or less 600 street performers.

The simmering summer afternoon did not deter the performers and the spectators coming from as far as the remotest barrio of the municipality. Local philanthropist Cesar T. Quiambao’s STRADCOM — a Quezon City-based information technology company — is the town fiesta’s co-presentor. In spite of an early evening thunderstorm, festivities went on into the night and until the dawn with the simultaneous Kemelan Ed Dalan (fish harvest in the street) street party (a beer bash and roasting of freshwater fishes in the streets) and the Binasuan dance competition at the town plaza.

Binasuan is a colorful folk dance believed to have originated from Bayambang. “Baso” means a drinking glass. Binasuan in the Pangasinan vernacular means “with the use of a drinking glass”.

In this dance, the dancers display spectacular sense of good balance, graceful movements and unusual skill. The girls dance with three half-full glasses of water or a local wine, one on the head and one on each palm while executing blinding fast twists and turns, rolling and sitting on the floor without spilling a single drop.

Bayambang is the host to the Mangabul Lake. With a total area of more than 1,500 hectares, it is the largest freshwater fishing sanctuary in the province of Pangasinan. It is situated at barrio San Gabriel II, close the Pangasinan-Tarlac boundaries. – slylquintos.multiply.com

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