Eastern in Romania

We know that Eastern already passed but we want to provide you with this useful information and about the Romanian tradition for this holidays. Painted eggs are the most colorful, artistic and loved part of Easter celebration in Romania. You will find them in every house and especially for every Easter meal, at church, and at picnics. Their origin goes back at least a couple of centuries, and today they represent the most popular picture of this religious holidays.

Throughout time painting Easter eggs became an art of its own in Romania´s villages. Did you know that the painter´s role was being initially reserved only for women? While painting eggs is even today a skill very few master as the process is long and meticulous, some Romanian artisan has transformed these hollowed-out eggs into unique works of art, exhibited all around the world.

Usually, they use three to four colors, each with its own meaning: Red is for love and solar light, black is an eternity, yellow is about youth and rich crops while green relates to nature and blue to health and sunny skies. The Symbols, which are used to decorate the eggs vary to the region. The motives are very diverse: Mixing symbols like the cross or the star with vegetal and animal representations and traditional elements from rural culture. The use is also influenced by regional and local elements. The lines used in the painting process bear their own meaning, if the straight vertical line means life, the horizontal one means death. The double line and the spiritual symbolize eternity while the curved line means water and purification.

We think it sounds very interesting, did you think so?