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Spring Customs The Romanian spring brings with it, besides the mild wind of revival, the charm of some ancient customs. Easter is definitely the most important of all. Easter and Christmas, in the cold season, offer the most significant events of the Romanian customs. The Christian Church says that Yesus was born during the winter solstice and his death followed by his resurrection happened during the spring equinox, the Easter. The most important Christian holiday - Yesus Resurrection, is closely related to the revival of nature. Cleaning the houses, wearing new clothes, the ritual bath before going to church, all these are supposed to mark a new beginning. After a long fast - the Lent, tables full with all sorts of good dishes and brightened up with beautiful painted eggs create a festive atmosphere. Children are the happiest of all looking for their gifts and coloured eggs in the newly grown grass. The holy night of the Resurrection of Christ is flooded with light - lit candles - that at midnight pour into the streets of all Romanian towns and villages. Anyone who gets acquainted with Romanian churches, becomes equally familiar with this country and the people who preserve their raison d etre. You may visit the Hurezu monastery, Arges County, the Rohia church, Lapus County or the Moldavian Putna monastery. The celebration of the Resurrection of Christ is an interesting experience for whoever wants to come to know Romania. The beauty and the peculiarity of this custom have been preserved unaltered by contemporary civilization, especially in the villages. It is fascinating to see the peasants, beautifully dressed in their national costumes, with lit candles in their hands, gathering together around the churches at midnight in order to solemnly utter: "Jesus Christ has risen from the dead". Everywhere around the churches, on the hills or in the plains, people light fires and sing Our Saviour s praises. After the service, the multitude of flaring lit candles, an uplifting and touching sight, make for home where people clink Easter eggs with beautifully dyed or exquisitely painted shells. The craftsmanship of dyeing the eggs at Easter, an ancient tradition with the Romanians, is due to the belief that eggs represent the primordial source of life. The egg, the magnificent preserver of the mystery of the origin of life, has always been related to the rites of the revival of nature. There is definitely a close link between Easter, the egg and the vernal equinox as the three of them cheese, cake, lamb roast and broth, "drob" (spiced minced lamb) and fresh cottage cheese. Other spring customs are referring to the farming labours or shepherds activities as "Tanjaua" at Hoteni, in the Maramures district: the countrypeople honour the most diligent farmer who was the first to begin ploughing. In Banat there is a similar custom. In Oas, the festivity "Sambra oilor" (the Sheep Association), an ancient pastoral custom, is held on the day when the flocks are leaving for the mountain pastures. 쥁`