Cultural assets, historical events and other sociocultural elements that are transmitted orally from generation to generation
Tradition is the communication from generation to generation of the historical events that occurred in a certain place and of all those socio-cultural elements that occur in it..
Mainly, orality is the way in which traditions are transmitted and exist. This situation occurred especially in primitive times when writing was not developed and only the spoken word was the only possible way of communication. A good part of the legends and customs come from oral tradition and therefore no written documentation of their origin is kept, for example.
That is to say, all those cultural assets that a generation considers valuable to be rescued and continued through time, and therefore transmitted to the following generations, constitute the tradition of a country.
The values, beliefs, customs, the ways in which a community expresses itself artistically are considered traditional and plausible to be communicated to later generations as tradition..
This in no way means statism, because the vitality of a tradition depends purely and exclusively on its capacity to continue renewing itself and adding some new elements to those already received.
Folklore expresses the culture of the people
Almost always the tradition, that traditional, coincides one hundred percent with what is popularly called folklore. Folklore is the expression of the culture of a certain people. Typical dances, stories, legends, oral history, superstitions, crafts, among other issues, are faithful representatives of that folklore that we mentioned.
Within folklore, four stages are identified: dead (corresponds to an already extinct culture, it is only preserved in travelers' books, archives, paintings) dying (the culture in question preserves only some details and elements, the typical one having been lost for strictly demographic reasons, the elderly only keep it and transmit it to the younger ones), alive (it is practiced in everyday life) and nascent (new cultural traits that over time have a chance of becoming tradition).
Most of the traditions that exist in a certain nation come from its past, because although, as we have already mentioned, in the present, there may be popular and widespread practices throughout the population, they will only recently be installed and adopted as tradition over time and over several generations. Although something is practiced a lot today, yes or yes, it demands the passage of time to be classified as a tradition.
Traditions can reach a small nucleus or cover more than one territory
Now, traditions can occur on a local and small level, such is the case of a family that, for example, has the tradition of celebrating the New Year in a house by the sea with all the members of that family. Social groups also often develop traditions that are linked to the object of union of that group.
And on the other hand, there are traditions that are manifested with a greater scope, affecting more people and even several territories. For example, a sport such as soccer turns out to be a sports tradition in Latin America and is the most widespread practice in this region to the detriment of others such as basketball.
Other examples are found on the Christmas festival where it is a tradition around the world to assemble a little tree in which Santa Claus or Santa Claus will leave us gifts. Or in the feast of the Christian Easter that has like extended practice to eat chocolate eggs the Sunday of resurrection of Christ.
The tango, the barbecue, the mate and the consumption of pasta on Sundays at noon turn out to be the most characteristic elements that express the tradition of the Argentines.
Too, the set of what is transmitted, as mentioned above, is called tradition.
