E l egg Easter is not an invention of our time but it was consumed by the Persians, Egyptians or Romans. Old communities for which these eggs had a special meaning.
Gift decorated eggs was a custom which originated in Europe and the Middle East before Christianity.
Among the traditions that we can cite the use should be remembered that Roman women were given to eggs. Pregnant women in Rome charged with an egg because it was believed that he could know the sex of the child at birth.
In ancient Egypt and Persia friends exchanged decorated eggs when spring began as a symbol of the rebirth of nature. The eggs were donated to women as a special present. As the European Spring practically coincides with Easter, the egg became the symbol of the rebirth of Christ, the Resurrection.
Already in the Middle Ages became universal use of Easter eggs in this sense. Between the ninth and eighteenth centuries, the church forbade the consumption of eggs during the knife, as the equivalent to the flesh, so that people cooked and painted to distinguish them fresh and they can be consumed on the day of Easter. Over time these traditions were incorporated into the Easter holiday and now the easter egg is a universal symbol.
also has the tradition that the Easter Bunny myth originated from the occurrence of a woman. The story goes that a woman who painted eggs for their children in the Passover, hid them in bird nests. In one of many times, the children found these eggs, and a rabbit jumped out of the nest, the children with the innocence of the age assumed that this animal had provided nice Easter eggs
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The egg came to prominence in Egyptian mythology where the phoenix is \u200b\u200bburned in its nest and was reborn later from egg that had originally created. Hindus also argued that the world was born from an egg.
Easter eggs in antiquity were chicken and duck.
From the eighteenth century, when the chocolate industry achieves significant advances in the management and treatment of chocolate, you start to empty the fresh eggs and fill them with chocolate. Later came other forms: shells, bells, carriages ... copying figures of the Austrian school, with their colors and shapes.
the evening of Easter Sunday, from dusk to dawn, young men went from house to house singing. If visiting a home where they lived unmarried girls, they sang a song called LALYNKA in which you want women lucky enough to marry early and marital happiness. If the singers were good, they received a gift of Easter eggs. The eggs were not as plentiful then as now, so it was a much appreciated gift.
In England, the mountain peoples, the celebration begins at dawn on Easter Sunday. Men and women rise to the top to see the sun rise of the Resurrection. The next day, since there are colorful eggs slide happily rolling down the slopes and vegetation lost in the valleys and plains.
In Greece, the celebration of Easter is not complete without eggs of varied color clash.
In Germany, Easter eggs are red and are reserved for the elderly and children. While in Hawaii believed that their island was the product of the explosion of an egg laid by a giant bird to the egg symbolizes the Gauls solar energy and energy related to fertility, for the Finnish origin of the universe is based on rupture of 7 eggs from which was born the sky, the sun and stars.
In Spain, the region of Catalonia and Valencia, is the region with more tradition in the production of chocolate figures to celebrate Easter. These figures are of great importance from the middle of last century. They are Easter cakes, different figures, in some cases real sculptures in chocolate which have many different forms, whose limit is the imagination and skill of the master chocolatier .
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