Easter Eggs
Easter is a celebration celebrated by Christians around the world. But in each country, residents celebrate it differently.
In England, Christmas is already starting on Good Friday.
To celebrate Christ's death is day off from work.
on the islands of the British but
also in many other places on Earth are characteristic of Christmas flowers are daffodils. In the first century AD the inhabitants of England today honoring their goddess Easter, they offered her a small cookie. It is from name comes from the goddess of the English name of Easter - Easter. However, for children in England, the most important day is Good Friday (Good Friday, Good Friday with us.) It is on this day children receive their dream of chocolate eggs. Some are small, others large, and still others in the shape of aircraft. Gifts, candy, sweets in the garden a sign that come Easter Sunday (Easter Sunday). Children believe that the mysterious, the Easter bunny brought them to these modest gifts. A legend is follows: once a woman who could not give their children a candy painted eggs in the nest and hid chickens. When the children were looking for eggs noticed a big rabbit in the bushes and thought it was he brought them the colored eggs- as a Christmas gift .
In Poland, already in times of Slavic eggs have become the subject of lively worship and magic. Through archeological research, we know that they were found in the tombs of X century AD in the vicinity of Opole, Wroclaw, Mesopotamia. In ancient times, alongside the real eggs produced eggs with colored clay coated tiles or stone. When
times came against paganism and establishing a new religion-Slavic Catholicism practices were not so quickly forgotten. People have cultivated them for the next few centuries. Preparation of eggs have been sanctioned in some way and included in the Christian Easter rites. Egg-a symbol of immortality and resurrection-today are the primary food of the Easter breakfast. Traditionally divided into the all household members, invited guests, make them also farm animals. Currently, we buy ready-made Easter eggs, painted eggs, some dyes, chemical characteristic of the region. The best known are probably the colored patterns and Kurpian. There were several shell decoration techniques. The best known is the dyeing them in the extract of onion, from the bark of oak or alder cones. Dark colored eggs "scratching" was a knife in the selected models. They were called kraszankami. Other decorated with a special "pen" filled with wax. This method of decoration, also called batikowaniem, is the oldest way of coloring eggs on Polish soil. In the spring, so the egg met many niebagatelnych roles. Not only was the hope of new life, food, a ritual gift, an element of fun. They were also buried under the houses to defend the whole year of people, animals and possessions from the thunder and unhappiness.
0 comments:
Post a Comment