According to the biblical New Testament, Jesus Christ was resurrected third days after the crucifixion was crucified, and this is the origin of Easter. Easter is also called "the resurrection of Jesus Christ to worship" or "Easter", it is a Christian country in second after the Christmas holiday. The Christian Indonesian conference in 325 AD stipulated that the first Sunday of the annual vernal equinox was Easter (between March 21st and April 25th). Orthodox as the Julian calendar, the date of Easter two weeks later than Catholicism and protestantism. Easter is the main festival in Europe and America. Britain, France, Australia and other countries set a rest for 4 days, Germany rest 2 days, the United States to rest 1 days.
Easter activities actually started on Thursday, three days before the day of the festival.This day "Maundy thursday". According to the Bible, the day before the death of Jesus, Jesus washed the feet of the poor and kissed their feet. The ancient British king in order to show that they are devout believers in Jesus, every Thursday before Easter in the Cathedral for the feet of the poor, and knelt down to kiss their feet, this custom changed the way in seventeenth Century, the king not to wash the feet of the poor and kiss the feet, but giving some new cast to the scene of the poor of coins. The symbolic meaning of Lianpinxilao. On Thursday, Queen Elizabeth S, the British queen, still meets some of the poor to send out the new coins according to the old tradition.
On Easter day. Family members in the western countries are all together to prepare a variety of traditional meat foods. Parents buy chocolate made of egg, such as candy rabbit in the shop, packed in blue, to the children, the festival, to meet you, greet each other, send cards to friends and relatives, congratulations to the happy holiday. The gift of the Easter is mainly eggs. Church, school or big family on this day, early in the morning, they hide their cooked eggs behind trees, grass or rocks, and invite children to come to the party to look for it, and become the main activity of the day. People also dye their eggs in various colors to increase the atmosphere of the festival.
In the European and American countries, the Christian family used mutton and ham as a traditional carnivore on Easter, while the rabbit sugar was not indispensable for the children. Christians regard the lamb as a symbol of Jesus' devotion, regard the pig as a symbol of luck, and see the rabbit as a symbol of new life.
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