Czech Christmas traditions include floating small boats with candles in nutshells on water, where if two boats join it means the people will be together next year. Another tradition is slicing apples - if a star appears in the half it means good health, while a cross means sickness. On Christmas Eve Czech families decorate trees, watch TV, don't eat to try and see a legendary gold pig, and have dinner which often includes fried carp.
2. Czech Christmas Traditions
Adéla, Aneta
We have many, many original traditions. We cut apples,
pour lead, float little boats, throw shoes behind, … and
we have presents under the Christmas tree!
We will introduce two interesting Christmas traditions.
Don´t be sad, Christmas time is coming!
3. Floating boats
Adela's favourite tradition
You need:
Nutshells
Little candles (you must put candles into the nutshell)
Matches or a lighter
A bucket or a bowl
Light the candles and put them into the nutshells.
Let the little boats float on water. If your boat joins another
one you will be with this person next year.
4. Slicing apples
Aneta's favourite tradition.
You need:
a knife
some apples
… and a good Christmas mood ;)
Cut the apples into halves .
If you have a star in the middle, you will be healthy next
year, but if you have a cross, you will have bad luck and you
will be sick.
5. Gold piggy
We have a superstition about a Gold piggy.
If you don‘t eat all day before Christmas dinner, you
can see a Gold piggy. Or if you don‘t only eat meat, it
is a better posibility. But we think that it isn‘t true.
Little kids believe in that.
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6. Advent
Bára, Luisa
It is the time before Christmas. We prepare for
Christmas Day.
We decorate our houses, bake Christmas cookies,
prepare presents for our family and friends.
Advent starts four weeks before Christmas Eve.
Each Sunday we light one candle on the Advent wreath.
7. Christmas Eve
Václav, Jana, Eva, Ben, Andrea
In the Czech Republic we celebrate Christmas Eve on
24th December. On this day we decorate the Christmas
tree.
All day we watch fairy tales on television. We eat
Christmas cookies. Some people don‘t eat all day,
because they want to see a Gold pig.
8. 1. We don‘t eat if we want to see a Gold pig.
2. We place the Christmas tree in the largest room in the
house. We decorate a Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is
a spruce or a pine.
3. The room is locked troughout the day.
4. At dinner, which takes place before unwrapping gifts, we
eat Christmas dinner. We eat a fried carp, potatoe salad
and fish soup.
5. Then the bell rings and we go to unwrap the presents,
which Little Jesus has put under the Christmas tree!
Procedure for the perfect
Christmas
9. Typical Czech Christmas food
Štěpán B. Štěpán CH. Radoslav P. Ruben.J.V.
Christmas cookies and Christmas cake:
Vanilla rolls, Gingerbread, Linzer cookies.
Rum balls, etc.
10. Vanilla Rolls
Ingredients:
2pcs yolk
280g plain flour
280g butter
80g powdered sugar
80g walnuts
Let butter soften. Grind nuts.
In a bowl mix flour and sugar . Mix it with nuts and egg yolks .
Process the dough properly. Wrap the dough in cling film and put
it in the fridge for half an hour.
Make small rolls. Bake at 180 ° C for 10 minutes.
Cover the hot rolls in sugar flavored with vanilla and store in a
box.
11. What do we have for Christmas
dinner?
Fried carp with potato salad
gutted carp
½ teaspoon of salt
1 egg
flour 5 spoons
beadcrumbs
oil
Season the carp with salt. Put the carp in the flour, eggs
and breeadcrumbs. Fry the carp in hot oil.
Christmas carp is served with potato salad , mashed
potatoes or boiled potatoes. It depends on what you prefer.
13. We sing Christmas carols under the
Christmas tree on the 24 December.
People gather on the square and
together they sing carols, drink to each
other‘s health and then go home for
Christmas dinner.
14. And now the quiz
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Christmas-quizzes
