Easter (Lord's Resurrection Day) is an important Western holiday that falls on the first Sunday after the full moon on the spring equinox each year.

Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon of the spring equinox, and since the day of the spring equinox is not fixed every year, the exact date of Easter is not certain every year, but the festival period is roughly between March 22nd and April 25th. As a traditional Western holiday, the origin of Easter comes from the Roman Emperor Constantine I, who convened the First Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., which specified that Easter was to be a Sunday.

People believe that Easter symbolizes rebirth and hope. Easter eggs symbolized the beginning of new life in the spring, so by the twelfth century eggs were being consecrated again. In fact, eggs were forbidden during the Lenten observance, and it was only in the twelfth century that eggs began to be consecrated. During the holiday, people follow the traditional custom of boiling eggs and painting them red, which also signifies the joy of the Goddess of Life after her birth.

Easter customs

Adults and children gather in groups at one place and play games with colored eggs, which they place on the ground or roll on dirt slopes, and the one who finally breaks it wins, and the victor gets the eggs of all the gamers. The event is so popular that the U.S. White House organizes such games during Easter.

In Britain, Easter originally commemorated the birth of Astaroth, the half-sister of the pagan West Asian god Baal. Legend has it that when Baal learned that his sister Astaru was born in a swan's egg, he went to look for it in the bushes, and when he found it, he held it in his arms and hatched a rabbit, which grew up to be a beautiful woman, and later saved Baal's life in his time of distress.