Celebration Traditions
This festival of colors was originally a Hindu tradition and is one of the most famous spring festivals in the world.
What is Holi?
The Hanami festival celebrating the transient beauty of flowers, specifically cherry blossoms, is celebrated in this country.
What is Japan?
This Persian holiday has painted eggs symbolizing fertility displayed on the Haft-Seen together with various other symbolic objects with Persian names that begin with "س" (seen).
What is Nowruz?
A German tradition to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
In this county, people chase a rolling wheel of cheese down Cooper’s Hill as a spring celebration.
What is England?
Tsougrisma, the Greek Egg Tapping game, traditionally paints eggs this color to symbolize Jesus' sacrifice.
What is the color red?
This is used to determine the date for Easter Sunday.
What is the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox?
This holiday falls on September 11th, which falls in the spring season in this country. It marks the beginning of the New Year and is celebrated with feasting, dancing, and singing.
What is Ethiopia?
In this country, the town of Zenica celebrates Cimburijada "The Festival of Scrambled Eggs" by cooking a communal bowl of scrambled eggs and enjoying music.
What is Bosnia?
This holiday commemorates the birth of Lord Rama to the king of Ayodhya, King Dasharatha.
What is Ram Navami?
In this country the Songkran Water Festival is celebrated as the traditional New Year’s Day. Along with visiting elders and going to a Buddhist monastery, festivities include the throwing of water. The word Songkran is based on a Sanskrit word for “astrological passage”.
What is Thailand?
Celebrants of this holiday eat hard-boiled eggs dipped in salt water.
What is Passover?
This holiday, celebrated on the day of the first full moon in May (sometimes in June), commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of the Buddha.
What is Vesak?
In this country during the Qingming Festival, families clean and decorate their ancestors’ tombs. Some people burn incense or light firecrackers at the graves and families light lanterns and fly kites. It is meant to mark the change of the seasons while honoring ancestors.
What is China?
National Egg Month is in May, but this month is home to World Egg Day.
What is October?