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Romanian New Year's traditions and customs


31/12/2020 13:06
The passage to a new year has been accompanied since ancient times by customs and rituals that are being observed even to this date, particularly in Romanian villages, as reported by AGERPRES.
Reputed ethnologist Ion Ghinoiu, PhD, Professor and scientific secretary of the Constantin Brailoiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy, coordinator of the Romanian Ethnographic Atlas, writes in the volume Romanian Holidays and Customs (ELION Publishing House, 2003) that New Year s Eve celebration is nothing more than a funerary ceremonial of Geto-Dacian antiquity on the death and symbolic rebirth, on the night of December 31 to January 1, of the first god of mankind, the Year, and of calendar time it is related to. ....

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