Каква е България около Коледа?

Няколко въпроса за това, какво се прави в България около коледните и новогодишните празници. Много интересни въпроси и още по-интересни отговори ( всъщност само 1 но обемен ). Тук е момента да ви пожелая весели празници с любимите хора и не забравяйте, че сте българи и никой не може да ви го отнеме, даже и да му го давате :)

Въпросът - Bulgaria during Christmas?
1. What do they call "Santa" in Bulgaria?
2. What does he fill? (i.e. stockings, shoes etc...)
3. How does he travel?
4. How does Bulgarians decorate during Christmas
5. What are Bulgarian's special customs?
6. What is the weather like during the holidays?
7. What songs do they sing during the holidays?
8. What holiday foods do they eat in Bulgaria?


Отговор : batko Robert" and "dyado Koleda" (Santa)
Grandpa Frost would bring small gifts, accompanied by Snowflake Girl. All the boys were in love with the Snowflake Girl.
Often times there are 12 dishes prepared, and bread sometimes is cooked with strips of paper portraying a luck or fortune wrapped in foil and baked inside.
Food with poppy seed is popular, including a drink made from grinding poppy seeds into milk and mixing it with warm water that the “kids go crazy about.”
Bulgarians do not decorate a Christmas tree until Christmas Eve, and painting nuts with gold and silver paint as ornaments.
Sometimes also would use red chilies because they were more colorful
Now that Bulgarians are able to celebrate the traditional Christmas, the area her family lives is becoming more mainstream.
“Decorating streets (for Christmas) is now just entering Eastern Europe,” It's very awkward to see.”

EASTERN EUROPE: CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS IN BULGARIA

If you lived in Eastern Europe, would you celebrate Christmas differently than you do here in the United States? The answer is yes, but each Eastern European country’s traditions are slightly different.

Christmas is a very important holy day in BULGARIA. It is also very family-centered. Santa Claus is the gift-giver and just as in many other nations, children write a letter to Santa Claus to tell him what they want for Christmas. Around the 23rd of December, your and your family will go out to the shops and buy the food and other items needed for the holiday, including a Christmas tree. Since Bulgarian Christmases are very cold and often snowy, the food that can’t fit in the refrigerator can be left outside on the ledge of the balcony. Next, you and your family will bring the Christmas tree into the living room. Decorating is done to the music of Christmas carols playing on the CD player, and you may even sing along! Multicolored lights or candles are put on the tree along with ornaments and cotton balls to imitate snow. Can you reach high enough to put the star on the top of the tree?

During the day of December 24th, your mother will begin preparing traditional vegetarian food. No meat is served at the Christmas Eve dinner. When evening comes, you will put on your best clothes and everyone will gather at the home of the oldest grandparent for a big dinner. Among the traditional foods you will eat, are white bean soup, red dried peppers filled with white beans, and boiled prunes served in their liquid.

The dinner ends with another Bulgarian Christmas custom. The oldest person breaks off pieces of the traditional homemade bread in which a coin was placed before it was baked. Everyone gets a piece and whoever gets the piece with the coin in will become very wealthy in the New Year. Will you get the coin? The Christmas Eve table is not cleared until the following morning, a typical tradition to insure that there will be plenty of food in the coming year.

Christmas morning, you will wake up to find that Santa left your presents under the Christmas tree. Everyone opens their presents and then has breakfast. During the day, you might call friends and relatives to wish them “Chestita Koleda” (Merry Christmas) and “Chestita Nova Godina” (Happy New Year). Maybe you’ll make arrangements to meet somewhere and have a snowball fight! In the evening everyone stays up late or goes to a Christmas Concert in the theater! Sooroovakane, the patting of adults by children with a specially made sort of stick-wand is an interesting Bulgarian Christmas tradition. The stick-wand is called a Sooroovachka. It is made from a short thick stick with branches all along either side. The branches are tied together to form round circles with the trunk of the stick in the center of the circles. The circles and the trunk of the stick are wrapped with red and white woolen and cotton yarn and then decorated with little cotton balls, strings of popcorn, raisins, prunes, and dried apple slices, and dried peppers. Using the Sooroovachka , children pat their parents, grandparents, extended family, friends and any visitors in the house after the Christmas Eve. While patting, the kids say a wish for health, wealth, and happiness to one patted. It is believed that this action, called Sooroovakan, will make all wishes come true during the next year and will make sure that the year will be very fertile and productive for the person patted. But the patted person must “buy” their success for the coming year by giving the child patting them money. Who would you want to Sooroovakan?


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