A Sunday between arh 22 and April 2
The eanin of any different ustos observed durin Easter Sunday have been buried with tie. Their oriins lie in pre-hristian reliions and hristianity. All in soe way or another are a "salute to sprin," arkin re-birth. The white Easter lily has oe to apture the lory of the holiday. The word "Easter" is naed after Eastre, the Anlo-Saxon oddess of sprin. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox (春分).
People elebrate the holiday aordin to their beliefs and their reliious denoinations (命名). hristians oeorate ood Friday as the day that Jesus hrist died and Easter Sunday as the day that He was resurreted (复活). Protestant settlers brouht the usto of a sunrise servie, a reliious atherin at dawn, to the United States.
This year Easter will be elebrated on Sunday April 11, 2004. n Easter Sunday hildren wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left the baskets of andy. He has also hidden the es that they deorated earlier that week. hildren hunt for the es all around the house. Neihborhoods and oraniations hold Easter e hunts, and the hild who finds the ost es wins a prie.
The Easter Bunny is a rabbit-spirit. Lon ao, he was alled the" Easter Hare." Hares and rabbits have frequent ultiple births so they beae a sybol of fertility. The usto of an Easter e hunt bean beause hildren believed that hares laid es in the rass. The Roans believed that "All life oes fro an e." hristians onsider es to be "the seed of life" and so they are syboli of the resurretion of Jesus hrist.
Why we dye, or olor, and deorate es is not ertain. In anient Eypt, reee, Roe and Persia es were dyed for sprin festivals. In edieval Europe, beautifully deorated es were iven as ifts.