Elev:Badea Ana Maria Profesor: Verbinski Adriana

People, usually understand in different ways every tradition or winter celebration and for each,they find different meanings. I think that we all enjoy them in the same “language” !

Main winter holiday cycle - Christmas, New Year, Epiphany - worked over time as independent moments of renewal and starting time of year.

The Christmas tree The Christmas tree is a decorated tree, the God worshiped substitute who dies and is reborn at the end of the year. Decorating the tree and waiting for the children to "Santa" called, in south-eastern Europe, Christmas, comes with many gifts, is a habit that has pervaded western from city to village, from the second half of the nineteenth century in Romania.

Ignatius is a solar deity who took the name and date of celebration of St. Ignatius Theophany (December 20) in the Orthodox calendar, synonymous with the Pigs Ignatius –in the dawn of the Ignatius day,the Christmas pork is cut and eaten. The Ignatius

 Carols is a ceremonial scenario texts,magic formulas, dances, gestures, performed at home or in the streets by a sacred band.This phenomenon appears under different names,depending on the zonal winter solstice periods: ("Star", "Plugusorul", "Sorcova“etc.)  Carols send wishes for health, fruity rich anf fulfilling wishes in the new year and it is the most common tradition of romanian people. Christmas Carols

Starting with Ignatius and ending with Christmas,this celebrations is accustomed on St. Basil, boys walk with popular clothes and go with “Goat”, ”Brezaia” or “Turca”. It made ​​ it’s place beside traditional masks (goat shepherd, gypsy, butucarul)or masks of devils and which by cries, shouts or funny movements, increase the note of humor and fun but in the same time to get the devil away ! Going with “Goat”

New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented ! Plugusorul and the Sorcova(bouquet used for New Year’s wishes) are some New Year's traditions in Romania. At the turn of the year, lovers are kissing under the mistletoe to not partake of arguments. New Year is greeted with much noise and fireworks for the evil spirits to be removed. New Year

->Christmas dinner is the traditional main meal on Christmas Eve. ->Dinner traditions on Christmas vary from country to country across the globe, reflecting the culture of the country. In romania it is celebrated with pork preparations. In Romania preparations begin the day by Ignat when people cut pigs and children go to carol(after other celebration,Bolindeţi) and get bagels, apples, nuts and oranges. ->Christmas Day is served with sausages, cabbage, liver sausage, jelly, pudding,boeuf salad and, of course, wine,next to the Christmas Tree. Christmas romanian dinner