Easter is, together with Christmas, one of the most important public holidays in Romania. The Orthodox Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus, and that makes it one of the most important and beautiful Christian customs. In 2018, the Easter Day in Romania is celebrated on April 8th. Easter is the most important celebration of the Romanian people and it is preceded by numerous preparations and rituals: Flowers Saturday (Lazarus’ Saturday) Palm Day (Flowers Day) Great Thursday Great Friday Easter Traditional Easter Food The Small Fountain Good People’s Easter The eggs are painted starting with Thursday. Initially the only accepted color was red, but in time other colors were also applied – yellow, green, blue and even black. In the villages the paint is still obtained from plants. The eggs are usually first painted yellow, because the other colors will look better when applied over it. Blue painted eggs are an exception. In Banat, the first painted egg is called a „try”. In the Easter morning it’s shared between the children residing in that house. The yellow eggs, also called „galbineala”, „galbinare”, „galbinete” sau „galbinele” (in Romanian “galben” means “yellow”) are painted with an extract of wild apple tree bark and leaves, different kinds of willow or onion leaves. Red eggs, also called “rosele”, “rusele” or “rosetele” (in Romanian “rosu” means “red”) are colored with a paint obtained from red alder tree bark, cinnamon, oregano or amber. The paint for the green eggs, also called “verdete” (in Romanian “verde” means “green”) is obtained from pasque flower, sunflower seeds or nettles. The blue eggs, also called “albastrele” (in Romanian “albastru” means “blue”) are painted with an extract of sunflower, pasque flower and woods. These are boiled in borsch, in which bluestone had been put. These eggs are not first painted yellow, like the others, being directly obtained from white, unpainted eggs. The black eggs are also called “negrele” or “negrete” (in Romanian “negru” means “black”) and remind of the Jesus’ sufferings on the cross. #discoverromania #ouapictate #pisanki #traditionalromanesc #romanianhistory #romaniantraditions 🐞 #easter