Customs, traditions, holidays in Hungary

Customs, Traditions, Holidays in Hungary

New Year’s DayJanuary 1

• New Year’s Day is celebrated with eating lentil soup and pork, visiting family and friends and

wishing everyone a Happy New Year. • New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

celebrations are all about bringing luck, fortune, health, wealth and happiness for the coming year.

Carnivals• In Hungary, Carnival is

known as Farsang.• Hungary celebrates this

festival with food, like pork, sauerkraut, stuffed cabbage, and doughnuts, as well as with parties and customs.

Carnivals• Mohács, just south of the capital

city, Budapest, is the best-known Carnival location in Hungary.

• Farsang in Mohács is called the Busójárás Carnival.

• The festival has a long tradition with legendary origins in the 17th century when villagers dressed in grotesque masks and furry costumes to frighten away the invading Turkish forces.

• Nowadays, Busójárás is to frighten away winter.

Carneval in the Kindergarten

March 15th 1848• The main event of the March

15th celebration is held at the Hungarian National Museum where young Hungarian revolutionaries held a mass demonstration on the first day of the revolution in 1848.

• Festivities include ceremonial speeches and a traditional Hussars procession

• This folk custom is still live and practised widely in Hungary

• Folk customs and beliefs of the Easter holidays are all connected with the renewal of nature and waters purifying and healing power

• Sprinkling the girls was supposed to make them good wives and moms of many.

Easter

EasterBefore Easter weekend people are actually wishing girls and woman to get ‘many

sprinklers’. On Easter Monday aka Dousing Day, groups of boys and young men visit

the homes of girls and women of their lives sprinkling them with water, rose water or

nowadays cologne. They recite one of the many existing sprinkling songs (or make

up their own) and request their egg in exchange for the sprinkling. The more

sprinklers the girl gets, the better.

Music Talent Festival in the Kindergarten

May 1• May Day or May 1 is

a public holiday, the International Workers' Day

• It is also a traditional spring holiday. Dances, singing, and cakes are usually part of the celebrations.

• A maypole is set up and decorated, around which a maypole dance often takes place.

Mothers’Day

• The first Sunday of May

Children’s Day• The last Sunday of May• Celebrate our children

with lots of fun, games and surprises

• ’The children are our future, we must teach them well and let them lead the way, show them all the beauties they possess inside.’

(Whitney Houston)

Whit Monday

• It marks the end of the Easter cycle• It is a religious holiday• Symbol of Holy Spirit

August 20

• The greatest national holiday for Hungarians, celebrated with day-long festivities followed by fireworks throughout the country

• It is called as St. Stephen’s Day, remebering Stephen I, the first king of Hungary and founder of the Kingdom of Hungary, who was canonized on August 20th,1063 by Pope Gregory VII.

Festivities The end of harvestingThe celebration of the new bread Fireworks

Flower Festival in Debrecen on 20th August

Vintage time, the Eger Wine Festivals, the celebration of the new wines

October 23

• 23rd October 1956 Revolution• Commemorates the revolution of 1956,

Hungary’s uprising against communism• It also commemorates the day Hungary was

declared a Republic in 1989.

November 1

• All Saint’s Day is a traditional day of honoring the memory of the deceased. All Soul’s Day is a custom to light candles and visit the graves of our passed relatives and friends.

Márton’s Day November 11

• The festival of the new wines• You should eat goose on Márton’s Day. • If you do not eat goose this day, you will be

starving of hunger all through the year.

December 6Santa Clause is coming

• The first opportunity for gift-giving is on Miklós nap (Nicholas ’ Day) December 6th

• Children receive small presents like candies and toys

Honey- cakes making in the Kindergarten

Christmas December 24-25-26

We wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Boldog Karácsonyt!

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