With many schools starting their Easter break tomorrow, I’m sure there are lots of eggs being bought and eaten. Tons of people eagerly waiting to rip their chocolat eggs open. But do you know how did Easter become the holiday as we know it?
Did you know that the tradition of giving real, coloured and decorated eggs dates back over 2000 years? Eggs of the chocolate variety are a relatively recent phenomenon – in fact Cadburys produced their first chocolate egg less than 150 years ago in 1875.
In Ancient China, Greece and Persia, the egg was a symbol of new life and eggs were exchanged at a festival in celebration of the rites of spring. The goddess of spring, who rose from her winter sleep to fill the earth with new life was known as Eostre by the Anglo-Saxons and that’s where the word Easter originates from.
Interesting Egg Fact
May is National Egg Month In the USA.
The second Friday of October is World Egg Day. The first World Egg Day was October 9, 1999.
Dingus Day
The Monday after Easter is known in Poland as Dingus Day. Dingus Day is a day of fun and laughter. Traditionally, men and boys sprinkle girls and women with water and tap them with pussy willows.
Interesting, isn't it?
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