середа, 24 лютого 2016 р.

                                                               Ukrainian Traditions
Ukrainians have old national traditions. When it is a religious holiday in the calendar, the Ukrainian families go to the church to pray, on these days we are taught not to work.
Nativity to our Lord is celebrated all over the world. In Ukraine it is celebrated on the 7th, 8th, 9th of January. On these days all the family gets together to have the Christmas supper, during which 12 dishes must be put on the table. Christmas carols are sung by children and grown-ups. It is a tradition to go from one house to another singing carrols. We have one more great holiday — the Easter, it's Resurrection of our Lord. In our Ukrainian tradition Easter is the greatest holiday of the year, while in Western Christians the greatest holiday is Christmas. We are persecuted by our enemies too long. That's why the Resurrection of our Lord, the victory of Lord's truth is for us the most important assurance in our victory. The traditional Easter greeting is "Lord has Resurrected, Really it has Resurrected" is often changed and quite right like. "Lord has Resurrected — Ukraine has Resurrected". On Saturday afternoon or on Sunday early morning people put Easter, painted Easter eggs, butter, cheese, salt, sausage, horse-radish on the best embroidered napkin in the basket and go to the church to holy all this. Cross is the main decoration of the basket. They sing Resurrection songs. Pisanka (painted Easter egg) is one of the most interesting forms of Ukrainian decorative art. Ukrainian spring pisanka has always been considered as an example of the artistic taste. It is no wonder that the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, in describing the Ukrainian countryside compares it with a beautiful pisanka.
Khimich Alexandr

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