Winter traditions. Romania
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The winter traditions document discusses several folk customs and celebrations surrounding the winter solstice in December and January, including cutting a pig on December 20th as a substitute for a dying and reborn god, preparing traditional dishes, decorating Christmas trees, caroling from house to house to wish for happiness and receive treats, playing games with masks of goats and bears from Ignatius day meant to bring fruitfulness and prosperity, and New Year's Eve traditions of children wishing from house to house bearing whips, owls, and bells or throwing beans on January 1st.
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Xmas around the worldvchambon
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In Serbia, Christmas is celebrated on January 6th and 7th according to the Orthodox Christian tradition. On Christmas Eve, families gather for a meal of fish, salads, and dried fruits before exchanging gifts. The next day, families share an elaborate meal featuring roasted pig and meatballs.Christmas customs
Christmas customsdavargaspanal
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Christmas customsdavargaspanal
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Traditional Christmas celebrations span from December 24th to January 6th and include various customs that originated from the story of Jesus's birth. Some key customs mentioned in the document are decorating Christmas trees as a reminder of Jesus's light in our lives, displaying nativity scenes and other decorations to symbolize the simplicity of Jesus's birth, children singing carols and receiving candy or money in a tradition called "aguinaldo", midnight mass services called "la misa de gallo" to commemorate Baby Jesus's birth, and special family dinners on Christmas Eve to bring loved ones together.檎顎恢辿稼
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In Spain, Christmas traditions include decorating with nativity scenes and singing carols around them in late December. Students have school holidays from around December 21st to January 8th. On December 22nd, the Christmas lottery drawing kicks off the festivities. Families have large Christmas Eve dinners and attend midnight mass. On Christmas Day, extended families gather for an important meal together wearing nice clothes. Children anticipate gifts from the Three Wise Men on January 5th by leaving out water and going to bed early.New year day celebration
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Christmas in MacedoniaAna Spasovska
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Christmas in greecedimoinof
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In Greece, Christmas traditions include decorating ships rather than trees due to Greece's naval history. On Christmas Eve, children sing carols in the morning outside houses and stores to receive money or candy. Families celebrate Christmas Eve with a rich dinner that may include stuffed turkey, pork, lamb, potatoes, spinach or cheese pie, salads, and wine. On New Year's Eve, children also sing carols to receive money, and families cut and share a special vasilopita cake, where finding a coin inside means good luck for the year.Magdalena Sekua
Magdalena Sekuamagdajanusz
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Polish Christmas traditions are centered around spending time with family. On Christmas Eve, families gather for an elaborate meatless meal and exchange wafer cookies, remembering absent loved ones. It is believed that events on Christmas Eve influence the coming year. Families attend midnight mass and celebrate Christmas Day visiting others, with gift-giving attributed to Baby Jesus or angels. New Year's Day may involve turkey dinner and the Epiphany involves blessing chalk, incense and amber recalling the Three Wise Men's gifts.Christmas in bulgaria
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Winter traditions. Romania
- 1. The winter traditions For all of us, winter is not only snow and cold weather, but also that of joy occasioned by so many times and customs related to the celebration of Jesus' birth. Holidays and folk customs are grouped around the winter solstice. (20 dec. - 7 Jan.) A well-known habit is "cuting the pig". The pig is cut for the Ignat, on December 20. The animal is sacrificed on this day substitute the God who dies and is reborn , with time, at the winter solstice.
- 2. That day we are preparing traditional dishes for Christmas: sausage, black pudding, scrambled, pudding, bacon or ham. Same time we chop the meat for sarmale and we cut the pulp for steak.
- 3. A well known is usually maching the Christmas tree. The tree is evergreen and symbolize life. The first signs of Christmas celebrations are groups of singers, which start from house to house with a spacious shoulder bag, hosts wishing to happiness, health and prosperity.
- 4. These carols are popular creations containing special messages (religious or satire of hosts). Carol proclaiming the birth of the Lord, wish health and happiness hosts, receiving for these wishes cake, cookies, pretzels, nuts, apples and even coils prepared by the housewives before. Since the night of 23 to 24 December, from midnight until dawn on the streets resounds the voice of small villages singers. Since Ignatius, there customary to walk with the goat, bear. These are
- 5. games with masks. Game "goat" (killing,crying, resurrection) has become a ritual meant to bring fruitfulness the following year, growth in animals, harvest success. Like the "goat" is the walk with the "bear" that follows fertilization and soil and household cleaning.
- 6. "The star" is a carol wants to remember the star that announced the birth of Jesus and ho guided the mags. New Year's Eve, groups of children go from house to house to wish, bearing whips of the punch, Owl (musical instrument) bells. Sorcova is the custom according to which the morning of Jan.first children, and adults, go and
- 7. symbolic throw beans, wheat and rice in the house and the people in the houses.