Easter

By Leonte Adrian
 Easter traditions
• Egg dyeing is one of the most important Romanian Easter
traditions. The painted eggs are always present on the table
during the holiday, and kids can hardly wait to participate in
the egg tapping competitions. The traditions say that people
who knock painted eggs on the first day of Easter will see
each other after death. The first person who taps the egg has
to say “Christ has resurrected” (in Romanian, ‘Hristos a
înviat’), while the second one goes “Indeed, he has
resurrected” (in Romanian, ‘Adevarat a înviat’).

• The belief is that the person whose eggs are unbroken will
enjoy the longest life. Usually, the Easter eggs are painted red
and represent the blood shed by Jesus Christ at his
crucifixion, but they can also be blue, yellow, or green.

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 Easter traditions
• Although the ornamental details vary from one region to another, all of the
elements on the decorated eggs have meaning. Here's the interpretation for
some of them:

• the vertical line means life

• the horizontal line means death

• the double line means eternity

• the line with rectangular symbols means knowledge

• the curved line means water

• the spiral means time, eternity

• the double spiral means the bond between life and death.

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