U.S.A.M.V FACULTATEA DE MANAGEMENT BUCURESTI AGRONOMIE SPECIALIZARE :INGINERIE I MANAGEMENT N ALIMENTAIE PUBLIC I AGROTURISMANUL II NVMNT LA DISTAN

EnglezTradiiile culturale Romneti

Student: Radulescu Denisa

Romanian cultural traditions

In Romania we have many cultural tradition. The most famous and beautiful of them are:" Boul nstruat "The most interesting Romanian traditions " Boul nstruat " and other folkPart of village life for centuries and have sound archaic name makes us think of them as some habits come sometime today only remaining memory. And yet ... Some of Romanian folk traditions alive today , despite the onslaught level of contemporary civilization . Modernization is felt here and there - for example, the port girls to celebrate popular shoe combines fashionable clothes - but tradition lasts . Large and small events of life , work and marriage , religious , Christian or pre-Christian , give meaning to these Romanian folk that here , persists as a reassuring message of continuity and stability.Adorned like the ostrich, the ox is a celebration of the summer solstice , or Midsummer held in New Pentecost. The central character was a stately -looking ox ( carefully chosen for this purpose) , adorned with bells , flowers and beautiful fabrics and was walked down the village street , representing , I ethnologists , zoomorphic depiction of an ancient deity powers fertilizer , which chezuia obtain high yields . "God" zoomorphic went about the village , accompanied by a procession of masked characters with appearances and events reminiscent of the Greek god Dionysus procession associated with fertility and life force .The custom survives in some villages of Transylvania , maybe not in a form so unbridled that old, but still picturesque and all spectacular, though perhaps little known origin that researchers attribute this ceremony .TnjauaTnjaua is an ancient folk custom still met under different names in some villages in Maramures and Bistrita Nasaud ; is typically agrarian , which was held on Sngoerz ( St. George - April 23 ) or the second day of Passover.The best known is Tnjaua of Mara , who still holds , with all its spectacular ceremony in a few villages in Maramures ; one of them is Hoteni village , commune Ocna Sugatag Tnjaua became known for his great pride hotenari opportunity and organization of a cheerful and colorful celebrations agrarian spring.The ceremony is organized in honor of the most industrious householder - usually the one who was chosen to show first came out , but it takes into account the moral qualities of the man in question .They formed a procession to the villagers taking part in festive attire , wearing Tanja ( some pieces that are part of chariot ) and yokes decorated with branches and flowers. Birthday boy was gone, on cars, on the river, where it was soaked with water to be uttered invocations to acquire " good fruit " ( harvest ) , and the birthday invite their fellow villagers home, where his feast ." Regardless of the name and the date on which custom made ( Sngeorz , Easter) ," writes John Ghinoiu , renowned specialist in the study of folklore , [ ... ] are currently practices ancient pre-Christian . " Ceremony with semnficaii land was complex part of fertility rituals intended to ensure , in popular belief , getting plentiful crops , the basic condition of survival .Tez -walkingTez -walking is a joy in spring Maramures children ; is a kind of went caroling , but Easter . Do not wander her children , really , clothed popular as in the picture , but will preserved (as preserved and the Christmas carols , even in the city, where children still wander - the blocks, dressed in Fas hoodies but wander ! )In Maramures, Easter , babies go to the houses of the village , welcoming hosts of " resurrected Christ , " and are rewarded with red eggs . The largest , 13-14 years , they offer little mocking , one household tool ( a broom , a shovel ) as an allusion to the fact that by now you should leave the childish things and engage in business of great men . Today , of course , those 13-14 are counted all children , but in the old days , the villages, people of this age were considered almost adults and are claimed to work in the household, the efforts and responsibilities of great people , preparing the in a few years to found their own households. In memory of this concept , " mriceii " 13-14 years of 8-10-12 mingle mititei years more roaming the thesis were part of a " way " - are shown tools household work , to be reminded it will not be long baby .

Garlic was kept a partyGarlic was kept a party designed to remove evil spirits from approaching winter . Take place in the so- called Night of the undead who , according to the Christian calendar , fall into the night Saint Andrew , 29 to 30 November.Echoes of such celebrations are all over Europe , they celebrate the renewal of time in an annual cycle marked the special moments , the ceremonial , and the solstices and equinoxes or later, certain feasts of the Christian calendar .In ancient times , believe experts ethnologists around this data is celebrating the conclusion of a year and beginning a new one. Towards the end of the old world was aging , degrade , heading toward a state of disorder, close to disintegration." The order is deteriorating constantly , reaching the night of 29 to 30 November in the night ghost symbolic state of chaos before the creation. ( Ion Ghinoiu , Serbian and Romanian customs , 2004). A sign of chaos , destruction of the established order of the world, is out of the tombs of ghosts , evil entities , started to hurt people . In defense, people resort to herbal magic powers recognized by the removal of evil spirits , and especially the garlic, brush with sash windows, doors , sills to protect the house and its inhabitants by the action of evil spirits . Locked in houses as protected banish fear that night , people organizing noisy parties with games , food , drink, joke - as a New Year , a classic scenario ceremonial welcome preschimbrii time of renewal .In Moldova , the party name was kept Garlic : girls brought home garlic connections that were collected in a trough and guarded all night by an old woman , while youngsters spend noisy. Morning , with dawn , everything returns to normal : the evil spirits returned to their stables , the world order was restored , beginning a new year. Garlic " guarded " was divided those who had taken part in the party and was then used throughout the year for charms or to cure diseases .

Fools WeekFools Week was, as Simeon Florea Marian describes , one in which " only fools start to marry, only fools and ugly villages give only now busily to marry , while all good, how many were going to marry within crnilegilor were already married long before . " was , in fact, the last week before Lent, also called the White week , or Cheese week , when, according to Christian Orthodox practices no longer eat meat but still eat eggs and dairy ; in other words, is the last week before a long period of deprivation - Lent - and , therefore, is a time of commotion , madness , joy taken to extreme events unleashed , in which it is full of excesses and spending time for Shrove Tuesday .Ion Chelcea , in 1939 , gave a detailed description of Fools Week , noting that participants disguised characters of a wedding ( the bride and groom , godparents , priest , teacher, wedding party ) and so crossing the village streets , scaring kids , kissing girls and young women until they came to a tree under which he was officially a parody of marriage ; Next, make a stop at the river , where the couple washed their hands - a ritual moment - and then all masked ( " maimuii " as they were called ) went to people's houses , where they were honored with the drink .Ion Ghinoiu believes it would be about "a scenario that began renovation of spring " that the matrimonial custom function seems to be more recent and wondering if it could be about " trace of the famous procession dedicated Dionysus . "However, his side witty , parodic , slightly dissolute , and masks , included in the same family traditions to which they belong and carnivals in the world of Catholic and Protestant . All are traces of much older traditions that have survived prohibitions that tried to impose the Christian church , being too popular and can not socially necessary - as a means of defulare , discharge voltages - to be removed easily.Today , even if their original meanings , largely been lost , even if their origin became obscure , even if some elements have been modernized , these customs still survive . And persistence clearly shows one thing: that people still need them.