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Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Easter eggs from Poland
We have still people colouring the eggs before Easter as a traditional custom. Let's have a look.
Pictures comes from nowiny.pl
Happy Easter to every member of our project!
Happy Easter to every member of our project!
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
WET MONDAY at EASTER in POLAND
Smigus Dyngus and other Polish old Easter Traditions
Smigus Dyngus (shming-oos-ding-oos) is an unusual tradition of Easter Monday. This day (Monday after Easter Sunday) is called also in Polish "Wet Monday", in Polish: "Mokry Poniedzialek" or "Lany Poniedzialek". Easter Monday is also a holiday in Poland. It was traditionally the day when boys tried to drench girls with squirt guns or buckets of water. "Smigus" comes from the word smigac meaning swish with a cane since men tap the ankles and legs of the girls. Dyngus comes probably from German word dingen which means to come to an agreement since the girls needed to give men money to stop being swish and splash. The more a girl is sprayed with water, the higher are her chances to get married. Usually groups of young boys are waiting for accidental passerby near the farmer markets or in the corners of the streets. Older men behave like gentlemen spraying their wives with cologne water rather than with the regular one. The girls got their chances for revenge the following day. They can spray boys with water as much as they wanted on Tuesday.
Dousing may have pagan roots, or it may reflect Christian rebirth and baptism. It may hark back to the baptism of Poland's Mieszko I and his court on Easter Monday in 966. Whether the tradition is historic or religious in origin, Smigus-Dyngus remains a significant, well-loved Polish tradition.
American Polonia descendants of the 1890s-1930s immigration often celebrate Dyngus Day with a polka dance.
http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art31fr.htm
Monday, 18 April 2011
Happy Easter from Spain!!
Hello everybody!
As Luisa and Marika have already shown their typical traditions during Easter. I am going to show you some of our traditions here in the Valencian Community.
First, we have the "mona de Pascua". It is similar to your "Titola" in Trieste and the "Tsoureki" in Corinth, but our "mona" is usually round, with one or two boiled eggs. It has also some dried fruit and anised tiny colour balls to decorate. Another typical decoration is a chick figure or a feather on it. They are typically made at home, for example, my mum always makes them for all the family in several shapes, for example, as frogs. The "monas" can be filled with chocolate, they are delicious!!!
Another typical food is the "farinosa". It is made with the same dough but it is filled with "confitura de cabello de ángel", which is a sort of pumpkin jam. They are rolled and without eggs.
And finally, we have also the typical chocolate eggs, or the chocolate figures: hens, rabbits... but also other fashioned figures. This year, I suppose that the most sold chocolate "monas" will be Hello Kittys and Bob Esponjas.
The tradition here is that the godfather or the godmother gives their grandson or granddaughter the "mona" to be eaten during the Easter Sunday with the family or friends. As Easter usually at the beginning of the spring, everybody goes to eat the "mona" to the country, and flying a kite is also a typical tradition.
It is thought that the word "mona" comes from the Arabic word "munna" which means "gift or present". And I have discovered that the eggs and the chicks represent the renewal and the rebirth, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I hope you will like all this information about Easter in our region!
Happy Easter!
As Luisa and Marika have already shown their typical traditions during Easter. I am going to show you some of our traditions here in the Valencian Community.
First, we have the "mona de Pascua". It is similar to your "Titola" in Trieste and the "Tsoureki" in Corinth, but our "mona" is usually round, with one or two boiled eggs. It has also some dried fruit and anised tiny colour balls to decorate. Another typical decoration is a chick figure or a feather on it. They are typically made at home, for example, my mum always makes them for all the family in several shapes, for example, as frogs. The "monas" can be filled with chocolate, they are delicious!!!Another typical food is the "farinosa". It is made with the same dough but it is filled with "confitura de cabello de ángel", which is a sort of pumpkin jam. They are rolled and without eggs.
And finally, we have also the typical chocolate eggs, or the chocolate figures: hens, rabbits... but also other fashioned figures. This year, I suppose that the most sold chocolate "monas" will be Hello Kittys and Bob Esponjas.The tradition here is that the godfather or the godmother gives their grandson or granddaughter the "mona" to be eaten during the Easter Sunday with the family or friends. As Easter usually at the beginning of the spring, everybody goes to eat the "mona" to the country, and flying a kite is also a typical tradition.
It is thought that the word "mona" comes from the Arabic word "munna" which means "gift or present". And I have discovered that the eggs and the chicks represent the renewal and the rebirth, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I hope you will like all this information about Easter in our region!
Happy Easter!
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Happy Easter to you!
Also in Trieste we have similar traditions: we paint the eggs (not as beautiful as your, Marika!) and your Tsoureki is like our sweet leavened bread we call "Titola". It symbolizes the nail of the cross of Jesus. I suppose this similarities are due to the presence of a big Greek comunity in Trieste since 1700. But we have also the chocolate eggs!
And yes, we were in Munich (Germany) with 43 students of the third year of middle school. They are 14 and they study two foreign languages: english and german. And Germany is the nearest country for us! Other classes were in Graz and Wien (Austria) and in Nice and Principality of Monaco (France) because they study French as third language.
Also in Trieste we have similar traditions: we paint the eggs (not as beautiful as your, Marika!) and your Tsoureki is like our sweet leavened bread we call "Titola". It symbolizes the nail of the cross of Jesus. I suppose this similarities are due to the presence of a big Greek comunity in Trieste since 1700. But we have also the chocolate eggs!
And yes, we were in Munich (Germany) with 43 students of the third year of middle school. They are 14 and they study two foreign languages: english and german. And Germany is the nearest country for us! Other classes were in Graz and Wien (Austria) and in Nice and Principality of Monaco (France) because they study French as third language.
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Happy Easter
Hello friends,
we wish you
"Happy Easter"
for you and for your families!!!
Our traditions are
Tsoureki and red eggs!!!
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