What is the historical importance of the Easter egg?
prehistoric graves brought clay eggs, which were affected by its inhabitants as tokens of immortality. The ancient Romans decorated the eggs and gave them as gifts to celebrate the spring equinox. As these examples show, eggs have long been symbols of immortality, rebirth and new life. Staining eggs in bright shades and decorating is a tribute to vitality and fertility everywhere in the spring; A new life that appears after the cold, dark dormance of winter. With the advent of Christianity, the symbolism of the egg was adjusted to mean the Christian principles of restoration, namely the resurrection of Christ at Easter morning.
Symbolism, regardless of the Easter eggs, historically also held a special challenge for Christians who watched the Lent. For many years, eggs have been forbidden by the Catholic Church, along with meat, during the period of borrowed fasting. As a result, Easter eggs were eagerly awaited part of breakfast in Sunday resurrection or Easter Morning. In some Slavic countriesCH is usual to bring the Holy Saturday a clearly colored Easter egg to be blessed before consumption at breakfast the next day.
During the ages, Easter eggs were colored with natural dyes made of plant materials and other foods. Today, while some people still prefer fine tones produced by natural dyes, commercial dyes are available in the form of tablets, powder and liquid. Different cultures have different customs associated with how Easter eggs make their Easter celebrations. Hunting for hidden eggs and competitions for egg cylinders remain popular.
Almost every culture that includes the tradition of Easter eggs or decorates eggs in some way. Ukrainian Listers are Easter eggs that are complicatedly decorated with wax technique that produces incredibly beautiful and complex patterns. In Mexico and American SOUThwest, Cascarones are bright colored shells that have been thrown and filled with confetti. Cascarones are broken over the heads of unsuspecting friends and family members, shower them confetti and hopefully happiness.
tsoureki is a traditional Easter bread that contains Easter eggs colored red to symbolize Christ's blood. The Italian version of this bread, Mrs. di Pasqua all 'uovo, is a knitted loaf dotted with colored Easter eggs. The light -colored heavily cooked Easter eggs are pushed into the dough of several versions of Eastern Europe Babkas .
Chocolate Easter eggs and jelly are later incarnations of Easter "eggs" that appear in Easter baskets sometime at the beginning of the 18th and 30 years. The jelly beans were around before, they simply had no connection with the Easter bunny until this time.