Painted eggs - an indispensable attribute of light Easter. This is the main festive dish and a good Easter gift to a friend and relative. Every year, the believers paint eggs before the holiday so that the house there was well-being and joy. But a great holiday in every year falls at different times and you thought when allowed to paint eggs before Easter? Take care of this in the week, which precedes Easter, and what day - we will try to figure it out.
Paint eggs for Easter in pure Thursday and on Saturday
Our ancestors began to prepare for the holiday from Monday by the passionate saddemic preceding holiday. But if you paint eggs on Monday - what will happen to them until Sunday? For this festive training, two days allocated for tradition:
- Clean Thursday. Do not take for coloring eggshell from early morning. First, make order in the house - do general cleaning, wash the windows, doors and floors, wrapping underwear. By tradition on this day, everyone bathes at home. Then proceed to the bake of cakes and paint eggs.
- Great Saturday. If you are cleaning all Thursday, and before painting eggs, it did not reach the case - do not be discouraged. You can paint them and prepare different festive dishes in the kitchen on Saturday morning. On Sunday, no one is engaged in this.
Why can not paint eggs on Easter on other days passionate saddemitsa?
In the first three days, the passionate week - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is prohibited to be engaged in economic affairs. Pray at home, go to the temple, follow the rules of the post. In addition, painted boiled eggs early, they will ruin until Sunday.
The most sorrowful day at the week before Easter is a passionate Friday. On this day our Lord was crucified. Refuse all home affairs, fast, pray, visit the church. Priests recommend to refrain on this day from any home work. But if you do not have any other time - do the painting of the eggshell after 15-00. This is the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross. But you can hardly want to do homework in such a sad day.
When did the tradition arose to paint eggs for Easter?
This tradition, one of the versions, came to us out of the 10th century. This is stated in the scriptures dated with the tenth century. In the library of the Greek Monastery, they found a manuscript and it says that after Easter service, Igumen distributed stained eggs with monks, and said: "Christ is risen!"
If you read the Bible, you know that the tradition of coloring eggshell appeared even earlier - after the resurrection of the Lord. Maria Magdalena hurried after the wonderful Resurrection of Jesus Christ to the Roman Emperor Tiberius to tell the good news. She brought him an egg. But the ruler laughed and said that he would believe in Sunday only if the egg shell changes color. And the miracle happened! The egg shell became Baghro. This shade is not random. He is a symbol of the spilled blood of Jesus Christ for all people.
Folk signs associated with painted eggs for Easter
In Russia with Easter eggs, a lot will take:
- the first donated painted egg on Easter is characterized by unique properties. It never spoiled, and he was placed next to icons and stored until the next holiday. People believe that it protects the house from evil people and anything of unclean;
- shell from painted eggs do not emit. Skip her in the garden and get a good harvest;
- to preserve beauty and youth, young girls were watered by the face with water, which was placed before this shell from painted eggs.
Create for your Easter basket of paints enchanting, painting eggs with bright and festive shades. Take into the temple along with the crumbs and dedicate. Give this Easter gift to a friend or relative and share the joy of the resurrection of our Lord.
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