Easter and Christmas are the two biggest Christian holidays. The celebration of Easter is "set" at the time when the early season ends and the real, green spring begins. Today's content of the holiday naturally has much older roots, represented by many beliefs from pre-Christian and Jewish traditions connected to the spirits of fertility and growth. They are supposed to ensure a good harvest for people, health for families and livestock, and everything else that is necessary for life. Christianity took many of these contents into the Bible and adapted them to their own views and calendar.
The date of Easter holidays changes, it depends on the moon. The peak of the Easter celebration is every year on the first Sunday after the first spring full moon, i.e. between March 22 and April 25. Many festive events are included in the Easter round, which begins after Shrove Tuesday, on Ash Wednesday, and ends on Easter Sunday. In addition to the Easter cycle, we are also talking about the Easter season, which begins on Easter and lasts fifty or fifty-one days until Pentecost, which is the feast of St. Spirit.
The richness of the festive heritage and modernity is reflected in many local and regional differences in the Easter holidays and their contents. This is already evident in the naming of the holiday, which, in addition to its official name, is called by older forms, such as, for example, vuzem (Bela krajina), vazem (Istria), vezom (Kostelsko), vüzen, vüzem (Prekmurje, eastern Styria) etc. Easter dishes, which are carried in baskets and baskets for blessing, covered with hand-embroidered napkins and typical Easter symbols, such as, for example, have an important role and spiritual meaning. Lamb of God. Eggs painted and decorated in various ways are among the blessed dishes. The egg is an ancient symbol of fertility, and in Christianity, the red-painted egg is said to represent the drops of blood from the dying Christ on the cross.
