Bacolod City is a famous city in Philippines(菲律宾). It is honored with "the city of smile" and MassKara Festival(马斯卡拉庆典) will show1it is called so.
Bacolod City was very famous2MassKara Festival takes place there in the third week of October every year. Now the festival has become one of the most important3of Philippines. And it is also the festival that attracts many locals as well as tourists to know about the country.
MassKara comes from a(n)4event. In 1980,the first festival was5within a period of great crisis(危机). Sugarcane(甘蔗) is the main agricultural crop in this area, but at that time the sugar price was much6than ever by the presence of the American sugar juices. That is also the moment that another terrible accident happened. On 22nd April that year, 700 people were7after a ship accident. In order to8people go out of the sadness, artists, local officials and some other groups9to organize a special festival. At that time, Bacolod was known10the name "the city of smile", so Mass Kara Festival also uses it as the criteria(标准) for festival.
