A toast to celebrate the Stuttgart Munich two German Beer Festival

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Munich Beer Festival (October) is the largest folk festival of the whole world, and the celebration of 2012 will be the 202 anniversary.

Munich Beer Festival

Each year more than six million visitors to attend the celebrations came from everywhere. Known as the "grass" the entertainment field, especially in Munich's old brewery tents, every year we have to drink five million litres of beer, and eat more than five hundred thousand chickens.

The main celebration programmes are also members of festival organizers and beer manufacturers from the ornate wagon, clothing and rifle shooter procession and all local banquet hall all came to the festival venue band. Whether it is a small stall, the traditional vehicle, high technology switchback, Ferris wheel and a wheel, or the size of type sale such as cotton candy, pepper honey sandwich cake and sweet almond bread Bavarian specialty stalls, or balloons, toys and other small souvenirs, everything it is an important part of "grass" activities to celebrate the happy atmosphere, of course, in the West had reached the street brewery in Munich dedicated to the 14 kinds of beer festival special offer tents.

Each year more than six million visitors to attend the celebrations came from everywhere

The opening ceremony

During the October festival opening day, to be held the grand opening ceremony and the beer factory organized a riot of colours parade. Opening ceremony presided over by the mayor of the city of Munich in a makeshift tent. Midday 12 when, in the 12 ring ceremony of the guns and the sound of music, the mayor with a mallet to brass tap a beer barrel, then unscrew the faucet, put the beer, served in a large cup of beer. The mayor drink the first cup, the famous October Festival officially began.

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Parades

The parade is a very worthwhile activities. The first Sunday of every Beer Festival, people from all over the German states put on full of special parades color national costumes, music, go forward with great strength and vigour through downtown Munich, finally came to the scene of the Oktoberfest beer festival.

People dressed as ancient well-dressed aristocrat Duke lady, wearing silk and satin princess, drove the flowers classical carriage, there are a lot of people are very simple in farmers' holiday clothes. Participants from young to old, family women, students, even the kids in the kindergarten are. Character is rich and colorful, with the the Alps, Rhine River to the Cologne Cathedral Miller, the nuns, the North German Prussia man.