Happy Orthodox Christmas!

[Serbianchameleon]

Happy orthodox christmas! I know you guys probably are not interested in this story but in Serbia night before christmas men go out in the woods and chop oak leaves to bring in their home to light it in fire for good luck. This sounds like some tribe thing but it’s actually really nice and heart-warming. After that we light the fire in our town part with our friends and neighbors and kids. Our part of the town has the best fireworks and firecrakcers, dont worry kids and dogs are safe! Here’s some pics . I hope I didn’t bore you I just wanted to share!

 

[MissSkittles]

Happy Orthodox Christmas! That sounds like a beautiful tradition. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Serbianchameleon]

Happy Orthodox Christmas! That sounds like a beautiful tradition. Thank you for sharing.

Im so sorry I cant post the videos. Tou can simply feel everyone’s joy!

 

[kinyonga]

Always interesting to learn about the way other people celebrate occaisions.
I also learned that you have oak trees in your country...which I never knew before!

 

[Serbianchameleon]

Always interesting to learn about the way other people celebrate occaisions.
I also learned that you have oak trees in your country...which I never knew before!

Yup, a ton!

 

[Lindasjackson]

I love learning about other peoples traditions. Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Serbianchameleon]

I love learning about other peoples traditions. Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! By the way the day before pur christmas is time for “forgiving” so if you had a fight with someone you should make peace with them for tradition .

 

[Lindasjackson]

That’s a great tradition!

 

[Mountain Dragon]

i love learning about different traditions this one is SO cool!

 

[Chameleoking]

Looks like a great time. And amazing fireworks display.

 

[Sonny13]

Happy orthodox Christmas and thanks for sharing, enjoy your holiday

 

[Serbianchameleon]

That’s a great tradition!

i love learning about different traditions this one is SO cool!

Looks like a great time. And amazing fireworks display.

Happy orthodox Christmas and thanks for sharing, enjoy your holiday

Thanks guys

 

[kinyonga]

What are the traditional foods to have on Christmas Day?

 

[Ambilobe123]

Part-orthodox-Ukrainian here! Half my family celebrates each year, Christmas Eve is the “fasting” (eating normally) until the first star shows (hope that it’s not a cloudy day), then 12 meatless dishes (apparently fish are plants), and Christmas Day is usually lots of meat.

The whole (30+ people I barely know) family comes over and I hide in my room with my chams. There is nobody near my age, and orthodox Christmas and Easter is the only time I see them.

As it’s Ukrainian, everyone is naturally swimming in pyrohy

 

[Serbianchameleon]

What are the traditional foods to have on Christmas Day?

On christmas day we eat pork and veal usually as well everything else you can imagine in slavic countries like “sarma” (there’s no translation to english as I know)
This is sarma and this is what the table looks like the whole day on christmas.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

On christmas day we eat pork and veal usually as well everything else you can imagine in slavic countries like “sarma” (there’s no translation to english as I know)
This is sarma and this is what the table looks like the whole day on christmas.View attachment 317851View attachment 317852View attachment 317853

That looks delicious

 

[kinyonga]

On christmas day we eat pork and veal usually as well everything else you can imagine in slavic countries like “sarma” (there’s no translation to english as I know)
This is sarma and this is what the table looks like the whole day on christmas.View attachment 317851View attachment 317852View attachment 317853

It all looks so good! I have no idea what most of it is though!

Sarma...cabbage rolls would be very close if not the same.

 

[kinyonga]

Part-orthodox-Ukrainian here! Half my family celebrates each year, Christmas Eve is the “fasting” (eating normally) until the first star shows (hope that it’s not a cloudy day), then 12 meatless dishes (apparently fish are plants), and Christmas Day is usually lots of meat.

The whole (30+ people I barely know) family comes over and I hide in my room with my chams. There is nobody near my age, and orthodox Christmas and Easter is the only time I see them.

As it’s Ukrainian, everyone is naturally swimming in pyrohy

Pyrohy...perogies? Mmmmm.

 

[Serbianchameleon]

It all looks so good! I have no idea what most of it is though!

Sarma...cabbage rolls would be very close if not the same.

Usually nobody knows what are most things.. Every grandma has her special dishes . But there are always some universal dishes. I tried “cicvara” for the first time this year at my girlfriends grandma. It looks weird but its DELICIOUS. Not my pic

 

[Serbianchameleon]

It all looks so good! I have no idea what most of it is though!

Sarma...cabbage rolls would be very close if not the same.

Yeah I think so. Everyone on Balkans eats sarma and every country says tha it’s theirs invention. Probably it’s turkish ( we were all under Ottoman empire for 500 year, but here we are still )