Easter is a famous fastival.

Have you ever heard about Easter? Easter is a Christian festival to celebrate the revival of Christ. Even, some countries have Easter holiday for the festival. If you are not Christian, it must be hard to believe the revival. However, it is actually recorded that there were 500 witnesses of the revival of Christ.

Since Christianity is one of the majour religions worldwide, it has a lot of brunches and involves numerous people, and Christians created various ways of celebrating Easter depends on countries or what kind of Christianity the person follows.

Christian people usually have a special-big family dinner, and play some games by using Easter eggs, which are a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth, on Easter Day. The eggs are mostly colored hard-boiled chicken eggs, but nowadays, people also use chocolate eggs, plastic eggs, and jerry beans eggs.

The popular games are egg hunting and egg rolling. An egg hunting is that children look for various sizes and kinds of eggs (chocolate eggs, real hard-boiled eggs etc.) hidden indoors or outdoors.  An egg rolling is basically to roll a hard-boiled or decorated egg without breaking it.

The date of Easter changes every year. The date is established in 325 A.D. as the first Sunday after the full moon following the March equinox. The reason why the day is always Sunday is because Christ revived on Sunday.  In addition, the date is different depends on the Julian calendar (Eastern Christianity) or the Gregorian calendar (Western Christianity).  For example, Julian Easter was on May 5th and Gregorian Easter was on March 31st in 2013.
It might be helpful to know about Easter at least a little bit because Easter is a popular festival in the world, although it is not really common in Japan!


written by Shin

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