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History of Easter What is Easter? 

Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus as described in Bible. The year of Crucifixion has been worked about to 33AD by comparing with reference to high priest Caiaphas, Governor Pontius Pilate and Emperor Tiberius Caesar, who all lived around the same time as Jesus.

When is Easter 2018, why does the holiday's date change each year? 

Easter 2018 falls on Sunday after the full moon following March 21 for Western Christians. So it will fall between March 22nd and April 25th each year. The day celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. To any one unfamiliar with the movement of moon. The date can seem somewhat random.

Why is the date of Easter not fixed?  Early Christians wanted to observe Easter around the time of the Jewish festival of Passover as that is when the last supper is thought to have taken place. As the calendar is based on the Solar and Lunar Cycles, Passover changes every year and that in turn that makes Easter Change too. The plan which would Schedule the Christian festival on the same Sunday each year. Would likely to be welcomed parents and Schools but may anger traditionalist. In 2014, Easter fell on the same day for both but this year 1st April in the West and 8th April in East.

How is Easter Celebrated? The Holy day is celebrated differently all around the world. In USA they give Panted eggs and baskets of Sweets, While British Children go on hunts to chocolate eggs left by the Easter Bunny. The Greeks eat a traditional baked bread called tsoureki with red-dyed eggs, while many central and eastern Europeans paint eggs decoratively and or fight with them like Conkers. Things are done slightly differently in Czech Republic, where boys pour water on girls and symbolically whip them with willow twigs. The Willow branch also features in Easter traditions in Finaled where young children’s dress up as witches for spring holiday. The little witches then go from door to door, bringing willow twigs decorated with colorful feathers and crepe paper as blessings to drive away evil spirits, in return for treats.

Facts about Easter eggs Easter Rabbits and Eggs 

The Symbols of the Norse Goodness Oster where the hare and the egg. Both represented fertility. From these, we have inherited the customs the symbols of the Easter and Easter Rabbit. Dyed eggs also formed part of rituals of the ancient, pre-Christians Babylonian mystery religions. The egg as a symbol of fertility and of renewed life goes back to the ancient Egyptians and Persians, Who had also the custom of coloring and eating eggs during their spring festival. Like the Easter Eggs , The Easter hare came to Christianity from antiquity , The hare is associated with the moon in the legends of ancients Egypt and other peoples. Through the fact that the Egyptian word for hare,UM,means also open and Period , that hare cane to be associated with the idea of periodicity , both lunar and human , and with the beginning of new life in both young man and young women, and so a symbol of fertility and of the renewal of life. As Such, the hare became linked with Easter. Easter is such a beautiful and religious feastival.On the festival families join together and make a fun with each other. They make different kinds of dishes on Easter mostly they eat Buns and Eggs. They eat and enjoy their festival.