Russian students to Iran - Special Celebration

Hello circle friends from Iran,
How are you? Is everything OK?
We'd like to collaborate with you on your project. Here is our message on the topic "special celebrations". So we are going to tell you about our Russian religions celebration "The Easter".

Easter is a festival that occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon in Spring. It usually fell in April. In Christian countries, Easter is the religious holiday, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. On meeting each other people exclaim: "Christ has risen!" Traditionally people bake such compulsory dishes as kulich and paskha. Kulich is a tasty Easter loaf flavoured with sweets and raisins. Paskha is a ritual dish made from sour cream, sugar, eggs, curds, raisins and butter. The kulich is round in shape and the paskha - square. Having consecrated her kulich in the church, a mistress would hurry home. It was believed that grain would grow as fast as a mistress returned home. The joyous Easter feast continues for a whole week. People cogratulate and kiss one another, go to each other's houses and exchange gifts, including painted eggs. Since time immemorial the egg was a symbol of life and fertility. The peasonts believed that the egg could save them from the evil eye.
In our families the Easter is celebrated in the morning when the whole family gather at the festive table. We choose served eggs, we bump them with each other and help ourselves with hard - boiled eggs, paskha, buns, rods, sweets, kuliches. We like this holiday because it symbolizes family ties, spring, new life. In a week after Easter holiday on Tuesday we have a special day - Parent's day (A Day of remembrance of the gone people).

We hope you will consider our information interesting and usefull for your project. We wait for your response.

Oksana Dyomkina, Dmitriy Nikitin - students from Russia circle team.

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