Romanian Christmas tradition

1. Romanian Christmas tradition By RatiuAlexandru

2. Although its origin precreștină in Europe is no longer challenged by anyone, however remain divided opinions: some see in it a representation of the tree of the world ', ' ', others regard him as a direct reference to, Paradise tree, adorned with a bright red apples, which are reminiscent of the sins committed by the first people, before their expulsion from heaven. Decorate the Christmas tree

3. At Christmas, the pigs cut on Christmas eve day, Christmas day, in the first or even the second one, as it happens through some villages in the County. Tecuciu. By jud. Muscel are villages through which the pigs cut between Christmas and St. Basil, pazindu itself as the cutting day not be Monday or Friday, sama when pig breeding stock remains behind. Others,-obriciti,-villagers don't cut pigs only after St. Basil, not significant deposits of lingoare. In some villages in the County. Dolj, pigs are cut with the night, so pan ' to everything to be ready. When injunghe the pig, who cut it, like those surrounding their cross with blood, to be healthy and tomatoes over the year, and say The year-and happy new year with good health!. Cutting the pig

4. Of the calendar most popular habits and more spectacular, with origins in the ancient myths, beliefs and are indeed linked cycles of feast of the Nativity of Jesus and the change of the year. Christmas is the pole around which revolve a multitude of Christmas carols, wishes and specific traditions, that send to times long past, but what they found, surprisingly, in effect. In Romanian folklore trick-or-treating Christmas is the most important cycle celebrating folk, most rich and colorful folkloric opportunity. • Habit of wandering, to welcome with great joy Nativity, to meet with wishes, gifts, parties, songs and games is ancient. Trick-or-treating is the widest open cycle of winter holidays. The traditional repertoire of Romanian customs carried out on the occasion of New Year and Christmas: carols, Christmas carols, fog lights (actual Christmas songs), songs from Star, vicleimul, 2, sorcova, v.h., masks, dances, popular and religious Theatre, etc. The richer, more varied and more brilliant of the artistic point of view are, alongside pluguşoare, Christmas carols, fog lights. • The essential character of the feast is the joy and the confidence with which man welcomes the transition from the old to the new year, the beginning of a new period of vegetation, of a new stage in his life and his fellow villagers, the community in which he lives. • Winter habits are respected in ialomiţene villages with holiness. For the Carol singers roam the streets of villages and farms, making the traditional greetings. Christmas carols

5. The feast of the Nativity of Jesus Christ or Christmas, poses for the Romanian people (especially the Christian Orthodox) an occasion of great joy. After the advent, the period of Continence both fleshly and spiritual absolution to sweet food brings the many habits and a potpourri of pork meat and sweets of celebration. The pig cutting is done on the day of Ibrahim. Pork meat, for the feast of Christmas, prepare Bacon, sausages, cartaboși, drum, cabbage rolls, roast pork, soup bones. Sweets that end festive table, or are you omeniți doorstep and injure that well-wishers, are: cake, pie and lipiile. All these preparations provide diversification according to the ethnographic area and shall be accompanied by specific drinks for each zone: țuică, palinka, various wines. Traditional food

6. At first the Emperor's feast with a fixed date, in natural order (chronology) of our Lord Jesus Christ, life is birth, named people and Christmas, December 25 is the annual celebration of the birth of the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ (cf. Luke II. 1-21). Seems to be the first specific Christian celebration, of those of our Lord Jesus Christ, though not as old as pills or Pentecost, whose home sits about Jewish holidays. • the primitive Christian mentality), inherited from the old world, the emphasis is put on the day of death and the resurrection of the revered, not divinitatilor on the day of their birth. Therefore, our Lord Jesus Christ in the early Church worship was more concentrated all around His death and resurrection. Christian calendars kept also in remembrance of posterity, not dates of birth of Saints and martyrs, but their death dates. Therefore, the birth of Jesus is considered in general as a celebration of origin more than new Pills. Its age can trace back the documents until the late 19th century, when-after a tradition recorded by the Byzantine historian NicephorusCallistus-at the time of Diocletian and Maximian ordered, a great many Christians perished burned alive in a church in Nicomedia, in which they adunasera to praznuiasca day of Nativity thebirth of Jesus

7. Goat is an ancient custom, over centuries of folk and spirituality which is part of the Romanian traditions. Preserved and today in most Romanian settlements, he knows the most complex and spectacular form in the villages of Moldova. The custom is defined by the "goat" costume as well as other specific elements: objects, props, music, and literary texts. • "The goat" is based on ethnographic area under different names: "Bouriţă", "Turkish", "Deer", "Brezaie". It is composed of "clonţ"-worked wooden head, with the lower jaw mobile to "clămpăni" and "horns" richly adorned with beads, mirrors, colored, multicolored ribbons, tassels, bells, jingle bells and furry goat or rabbit. The body of the costume is made from a thick wool fabric, carpet, or fur Cerga goat's milk, which is designed to hide it on at the Goat for Christmas

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