About Familiar Traditions

Nowadays, grecians don't look diferent from other cultures of the world, I mean, everyone uses jeans, tennis or shirts; we choose our names by famous events/persons and forget the importance of a gift's sense...but let's check out why grecians still being unique about their traditions.

There are 4 topics about grecian traditions:

1. Antique customs: 21th century they look like everyone else but in the past, they used clothes composed by some kind of sheet rounding all their bodies...that is a past thing but grecians still thinking that their culture must be respected, so in grecian plays the actors must use that antique style. Is a tradition go with the family to see this kind of show.

2. Clindren names: Parents honor earlier generations choosing the names of the grandparents for their kids. Is a tradition that the first name have been taken from his or her grandparents, and the middle name could be taken from child's parents.

3. Newbornings: When a baby is born, the family must give him or her some gifts, because this is a moment of incredible happiness and joy. Most common gifts are some gold or silver coins. The goal is to wishing luck for the new baby, they expect that he/she will be succesfull for the rest of her/him life.

4. Religious celebrations: Marriage, baptims and death ceremonies are really important into grecian traditions. Allways the grandfather (or father when grampa is dead) must give a speech before the ceremony; all family must be present and there are similar rituals to Ortodoxian Curch ones.

By: Eliana Moreno