| 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. |
