Traditions

•Purpose project •Project objectives •Argument: •Romanian Traditions New Year: -Play goat -Bears game •Christmas traditions •Traditional food

Theme: Habits and customs-at home in the ancestral hearth Purpose project: reviving traditions, customs and folk customs Project objectives:- re-living the old habits of young; . -familiarizing students with the concept of tradition; -youth involvement in the project.

Argument:

Christian tradition and the heathen; are intertwined and so strange blend in to the meaning of Christmas and New Year in Romanian, that feel the need to join some famous folklorist and insiders to decant at least some abyssal symbols. Few of the children feel, today, in places Romania, as their soul is contained in the frozen nights, tall boots and magical shining light - a terrible anxiety, the terror mystical mix, inexplicably, the joy of hidden - and when you start on time, take place, the streets and streets, the great and gentle show of Christmas, that the seething, violent and magic of the New Year.

Romanian Traditions New Year Those who flock of sheep or cattle go between New Year and Epiphany, a fountain and make it a cross with fresh butter, not their cattle die. Those who sleep in the passage of years will sleep throughout the coming year will bypass luck. Who does not pay all debts before the end, we owe all the coming year, and who will cry all year. Also, who gives money tonight will give money all year. If the night will be cold sea and will see many stars, it means that next year there will be many marriages. New Year should not catch you and no dirty laundry with dirty house, to be free from poverty and misery. In parts of the country not cooking poultry. They say that makes it spread their good fortune and well being of the house as chickens earth. They say it good that the first person to enter your home in the new year to be a man, for it is the pillar of the house. And if a man come first, then happiness will not budge from the house daily needs. Is well as his home between January 1 to singers who cast about with wheat or rice, a sign of wealth and prosperity. Wheat and rice will not mature on the same day so as not mature luck.

Play goat Games with masks of Moldova, taking place during New Year traditions are ancient, with origins in agricultural and pastoral rites Neolithic and Thracian, rites that have evolved and developed simultaneously with funeral rites and the cult of dead ancestors . Set up in groups of goats, deer, goats, rams, oxen, ostriches, Crane, horses and bears, the bell ringing, the bells, the flute and drums, masks, villages in the cross and now Eve and New Year Day, recalling the festivals.

A special place is occupied and the goat game, between games of masks. The costume is made of a head that play as real as the goat head carved in wood, the lower jaw is mobile, it is moved during the dance being held by a rope, causing clampaniri rhythm sounds a whistle or witty intrepretate by shepherd such as Ta, ta, ta, goat, ta! Dancing Goat is hopping, giddy intrepretand role of these animals, all goes to the beat of whistle songs in the agreement. Like the Bears game and the game are common goat several stages including illness, death. The researchers assume that the goat dance comes from the ancient sacred ceremonies dedicated to the divinity of death and rebirth. .

Bears game Preparing for a bear costume for masquerade New Year is the time, with a great thorough, head of the bear is made of a support matala to play as real as the head of the animal, which stretches over a sheep skin , was subsequently embellished with beads. Young people who wear dresses that suit from the neck down a long sheepskin coat turned inside out or a sheep, keep a rod in his hand (beat) having at one end of a short chain to catch a (fringe) of dangerous. Groups of bears are formed by groups of 3 to 6 characters, led by a Gypsy, his suit is made of a material in which red is the predominant color. Young people dress the most powerful masks, have the opportunity to show off-ASI strength and skill, characters encountered the bear, rising up and Gypsy on the arms and carried on their shoulders, they are held by the crowd gathered at the progress of masked parades taking place on the last day of the year

Christmas tree is fun and joy. Although he suffered many transformations over the years - about the styles of decoration - it remains to wish everyone

Very important is that the whole family to participate tree adornment. Together can give life and magic of Christmas Festival

Christmas eve just wandering children, symbols of purity, the physical and moral cleanliness. Only on Christmas Day wandering boys, women are excluded. Group of singers are organized by neighborhood and go from house to house for their greeting is considered auspicious. Their arsenal consists of bells, sticks, whips is meant that the noise made, to banish evil forces.

On Christmas eve is the traditional food of Roman cake with JULF, signifying God diaper.

Ingredients: 500g - hemp seed, 3 tablespoons sugar pie sheets; Preparation: hemp seed is divided into four parts and put in the robot at a time, with a mug of water. When the seed is crushed and rorbot well is that a cream, drain well through a gauze often. Juice is collected boil on a medium flame. After about ten minutes the fire begins to form a foam, the foam collects slowly with a spoon and put in a separate bowl. This is filler is added, to taste, about three tablespoons of sugar. Then take the pie and be insiropeaza sheets (can be soaked in juice left after it was foam). It stretches at a time, in a tray, one piece of pie, a layer of filling, and so on until both ends. The leaves preferably cold hours before it consumes.

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