Easter eggs are kept all over the year nice placed in vases realising a colouristic effect in Romanian house.
Natural because the egg is the symbol of creation a primordial element a vital nucleus including the mystery of fecundity so as an expression of the beauty, harmony and the cosmic perfection.
used in
Decorated
Easter Eggs
There are four categories:
-
Monochrome: red, yellow, orange, green, blue, violet;
- Monochrome with decoration;
- Polychrome with decoration;
- With relief decoration.
Recently, eggs decorated with beads.
Usually all are known as ‘rusite’ (red eggs)
The
monochrome easter eggs are named “merisoare” (cowberry) or “dragostea
fetelor” (girls love).
Monochromes or polychromes, decorated Easter eggs are named by the zone
they are from: painted eggs, "impistrite" or
"impiestrite" (frequently used in Bucovina and Moldavia), "incondeiate"
or
written (Muntenia, Oltenia, Transilvania and Banat), "impietrite"
(stoned).
Polychrome and decorated
Easter eggs are known as “muncite” (hard worked) or “necajite”
(concerned) eggs because they are made by hard work and master craft.
Symbols
| Black | -means absolute, eternity, lasting. In mythology is the attribute of gods and spirits who lives underground; |
| Red | -is the symbol of blood, life, purifying fire, sun, love and joy of life; |
| Yellow | -light, youth, happiness, harvest, hospitality |
| Green | -reborn of nature, freshness, fruitful, hope; |
| White | -purity, innocence, born; |
| Blue | -the sky, talisman of health and vitality; |
| Orange | -force, patience, ambition; |
| Brown | -fertile soil; |
| Violet | -self-control, patience, believe in justice. |
-series of animals (figures or representations of different life forms: bees, frog, snake, snail, fish, goat, rooster, horse, fly, goose’s paw, rooster’s comb, deer’s antlers
-series of vegetal motifs: includes pine leaf, oak leaf, clover, snowdrop, cowslip, carnation, grain ear , kernel
-series of tools: fork, reel, staff, shovel, plough
-series of industrial ornaments: folds
-series of other ornaments: wallets, belts, lost ways.