| That is the greatest Romanian
holiday of spring. The hearts of Romanians are full of hope and joy looking
forward to this. They happily clean the houses and even they make new closes
for themselves to put them on Easter Day. The children help their parents,
waiting for presents from Easter bunny.
Reddening and painting eggs
for Easter is a great joy especially for women. They combine some kind
of artistic skills. During the Passion Week, the ancient people believed
that time and space died and were born every year, together with the adored
divinity. Nowadays children are happy to have eggs painted in yellow, blue
or green, also decorated with fun drawings. The eggs are dried and put
in a ceramic plate, after they have been boiled.
The Romanian traditional
foods for Easter are "pasca", "cozonacul" and some dishes of lamb. The
people go to the church and light a candle in the midnight of Easter. All
of them come home keeping the lit candle. It is said that the candle is
lit whenever there is thunder and lighting outside and this will keep away
from people.
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