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Презентация учителя МОУ «СОШ села Малый Узень Питерского района Саратовской области»
Рыжовой Валентины Николаевны
Символы праздника Пасхи
Easter Symbols
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Easter is the most important festival in the Christian church year.
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Easter is a Christian festival,
though it has ancient pagan roots. This spring festival has many symbols that have very interesting meanings.
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Easter Сandles
Easter Candles help believers to commemorate
this festivity of rebirth and fertility called Easter.
Слайд 6People with happy mood light Easter сandles in churches as part
of their celebration. It depicts new life, free from all sins.
Easter cross is the symbol of life over death. Easter Cross reminds us of the pain and bloodshed of Jesus Christ.
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The significance of Easter Cross is very high in
Christian religious faith. It is used all around the world as a symbol of undying faith.
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victory. This is, in fact, seen in every Central and Eastern European family.
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Lamb forms the main center of attraction of Easter Dinner Table.
People love eating the meat of a lamb. Nowadays little figures of lamb made out of sugar, pastry and butter have replaced the meat of lamb on the dinner table.
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Easter Lily
Trumpet-shaped, Easter Lily, is a fragrant flower, all in pure
white. With this flower, people celebrate and enjoy the very essence of life during the special occasion of Easter.
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Easter Lilies — the magnetic and beautiful flowers of Springtime. Everyone
loves this flower. Easter Lily is the traditional flower and is highly honored from time immemorial. Lily is the symbol of joy, hope, beauty and life.
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Decorating eggs for Easter is a tradition that dates back to
at least the 13th century.
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Lenten season, so people would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of penance and fasting, then eat them on Easter as a celebration.
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Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since
birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth.
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The first Easter bunny legends were documented in the 1500s. By
1680, the first story about a rabbit laying eggs and hiding them in a garden was published. These legends were brought to the United States in the 1700s when German immigrants settled in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Historical facts
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The Easter Bunny or Easter Hare is a character depicted as
a rabbit bringing Easter eggs. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy or toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter.
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The Easter Bunny will either put the baskets in a designated
place or hide them somewhere in the house or garden . The children find them when they wake up in the morning.
Слайд 23Easter Card
An Easter Card is a great way to convey the
warmth of spring and to touch the hearts of all those dear to you, be they near or far. There are colored Easter eggs, chocolate Easter bunnies, Easter baskets in the cards.
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Easter eggs, Easter Rabbit (Easter Bunny) and sending Easter cards are
tradition not only in Britain. The cards are often in green or yellow or show baby animals, because lots of animals are born in spring. This tradition goes back to the 19th century.
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The world is filled with gladness;
The bells of Easter
ring;
Each pure white lily's waking,
To welcome infant spring.
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