•Purpose project

•Project objectives
•Argument:
•Romanian Traditions New Year:
-Play goat
-Bears game
•Christmas traditions
•Traditional food
Theme: Habits and customs-at home in the ancestral hearth
Purpose project: reviving traditions, customs and folk customs
Project objectives:- re-living the old habits of young; .
-familiarizing students with the concept of
tradition;

-youth involvement in the project.

Argument: Christian tradition and the heathen; are intertwined and so
strange blend in to the meaning of Christmas and New Year in Romanian, that
feel the need to join some famous folklorist and insiders to decant at least some
abyssal symbols.
Few of the children feel, today, in places Romania, as their soul is contained in
the frozen nights, tall boots and magical shining light - a terrible anxiety, the terror
mystical mix, inexplicably, the joy of hidden - and when you start on time, take
place, the streets and streets, the great and gentle show of Christmas, that the
seething, violent and magic of the New Year.
 Romanian Traditions New Year

Those who flock of sheep or cattle go between New Year and Epiphany, a
fountain and make it a cross with fresh butter, not their cattle die.
Those who sleep in the passage of years will sleep throughout the coming
year will bypass luck.
Who does not pay all debts before the end, we owe all the coming year, and
who will cry all year. Also, who gives money tonight will give money all year.
If the night will be cold sea and will see many stars, it means that next year
there will be many marriages. New Year should not catch you and no dirty
laundry with dirty house, to be free from poverty and misery. In parts of the
country not cooking poultry. They say that makes it spread their good fortune
and well being of the house as chickens earth.
They say it good that the first person to enter your home in the new year to be
a man, for it is the pillar of the house. And if a man come first, then happiness
will not budge from the house daily needs. Is well as his home between
January 1 to singers who cast about with wheat or rice, a sign of wealth and
prosperity. Wheat and rice will not mature on the same day so as not mature
luck.
 Play goat
Games with masks of Moldova, taking place during New Year traditions
are ancient, with origins in agricultural and pastoral rites Neolithic and
Thracian, rites that have evolved and developed simultaneously with
funeral rites and the cult of dead ancestors . Set up in groups of goats,
deer, goats, rams, oxen, ostriches, Crane, horses and bears, the bell
ringing, the bells, the flute and drums, masks, villages in the cross and
now Eve and New Year Day, recalling the festivals.
A special place is occupied and the goat game, between games of masks. The
costume is made of a head that play as real as the goat head carved in wood,
the lower jaw is mobile, it is moved during the dance being held by a rope,
causing clampaniri rhythm sounds a whistle or witty intrepretate by shepherd
such as Ta, ta, ta, goat, ta!
Dancing Goat is hopping, giddy intrepretand role of these animals, all goes to
the beat of whistle songs in the agreement. Like the Bears game and the game
are common goat several stages including illness, death. The researchers
assume that the goat dance comes from the ancient sacred ceremonies
dedicated to the divinity of death and rebirth.
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 Bears game

Preparing for a bear costume for masquerade New Year is the time,
with a great thorough, head of the bear is made of a support matala
to play as real as the head of the animal, which stretches over a
sheep skin , was subsequently embellished with beads. Young
people who wear dresses that suit from the neck down a long
sheepskin coat turned inside out or a sheep, keep a rod in his hand
(beat) having at one end of a short chain to catch a (fringe) of
dangerous.
Groups of bears are formed by groups of 3 to 6 characters, led by a
Gypsy, his suit is made of a material in which red is the predominant
color. Young people dress the most powerful masks, have the
opportunity to show off-ASI strength and skill, characters
encountered the bear, rising up and Gypsy on the arms and carried
on their shoulders, they are held by the crowd gathered at the
progress of masked parades taking place on the last day of the year
Christmas tree is fun and
joy. Although he suffered
many transformations over
the years - about the styles
of decoration - it remains to
wish everyone
Very important is that
the whole family to
participate tree
adornment. Together
can give life and
magic of Christmas
Festival
Christmas eve just wandering children,
symbols of purity, the physical and moral
cleanliness. Only on Christmas Day
wandering boys, women are excluded.
Group of singers are organized by
neighborhood and go from house to house
for their greeting is considered auspicious.
Their arsenal consists of bells, sticks,
whips is meant that the noise made, to
banish evil forces.
On Christmas eve is the
traditional food of Roman cake
with JULF, signifying God
diaper.
Ingredients: 500g - hemp seed, 3 tablespoons sugar pie sheets;
Preparation: hemp seed is divided into four parts and put in the
robot at a time, with a mug of water. When the seed is crushed and
rorbot well is that a cream, drain well through a gauze often. Juice is
collected boil on a medium flame. After about ten minutes the fire
begins to form a foam, the foam collects slowly with a spoon and put
in a separate bowl. This is filler is added, to taste, about three
tablespoons of sugar. Then take the pie and be insiropeaza sheets
(can be soaked in juice left after it was foam). It stretches at a time,
in a tray, one piece of pie, a layer of filling, and so on until both ends.
The leaves preferably cold hours before it consumes.
COJOCARU MARIA LOREDANA:
- telefon:0769891835,
- e-mail:cloredana31@yahoo.com
MANOLE MADALINA:
- telefon:0766816283
- e-mail:madalinna_ro@yahoo.com