{"id":26195,"date":"2022-03-18T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/christmas-traditions-in-romania-the-colinde\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:44:19","slug":"christmas-traditions-romania-colinde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/christmas-traditions-romania-colinde\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas traditions in Romania: the Colinde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Colinde or Christmas carols are one of Romania&#8217;s most popular customs.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if fewer and fewer children participate in this joyous custom of announcing the arrival of the holidays and chasing away evil spirits, it is still quite present, especially in the countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, according to tradition, on the morning of Christmas Eve, the first singers criss-cross the village, from house to house, to sing a song called \u201cBuna dimineata\u201d (note \u201cHello\u201d). In the past, they were rewarded with nuts, apples or covrigi (round crackers) but today they are given sweets and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even today, even in the cities, there are groups of children who go from apartment to apartment to sing. Be careful, it is said that for those who do not want to open them by stinginess, a bad year is announced. In Maramures, adults also accompany children and are welcomed with cozonac, sarmale, pork dishes and wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You understood it well, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colind%C4%83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colinde<\/a> is an important tradition in Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Bun\u0103 diminea\u021ba la Mo\u0219 Ajun - Corul Na\u021bional de Camer\u0103 \u201eMadrigal - Marin Constantin\u201d\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TrGhOMjCBkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To see other articles on our website, click <a href=\"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/category\/blog-cat-en\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to tradition, on the morning of Christmas Eve, the first singers roam the village, from house to house, to sing a song called \u201cBuna dimineata\u201d (ed. \u201cHello\u201d). In the past, they were rewarded with nuts, apples or covrigi (round crackers) but today they are given sweets and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,1144,345,1183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-cat-en","category-blog-en-en-2","category-blog-en-en","category-blog-fr-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}