1. CZECH TRADITIONS
Barbora Vymlátilová, Kateřina Vaňková, Amálie Kulatá, Eliška
Lakomá, Vojtěch Mrnka, Jan Kořenovský

2. MASS
• Listening to priest
• About one hour
• Singing
• Every Sunday morning

3. EASTER

4. EASTER
◦ Maundy Thursday (Green Thursday)
◦ Good Friday (Great Friday)
◦ Holy Saturday (White Saturday)
◦ Easter Sunday
◦ Easter Monday

5. Klapání
◦ From Thursday to Saturday
◦ Klapačky, hrkačky, řehtačky
◦ Boys between the age of 6 and 13

6. Traditional food
◦ Fancy bread
◦ Paschal Lamb

7. Maundy Thursday
◦ Easter Bunny or Easter Han
◦ Eat one green thing

8. Easter Sunday
◦ raiding an Easter whip
◦ Egg coloring

10. Easter Monday
◦ Whipping

12. IMPORTANT DATES

13. FIRST OF JANURY
◦ Public holiday
◦ 1993 – Independent Czech Republic

14. VICTORY DAY
◦ May 8th
◦ Public holiday
◦ Victory over Nazism Day

16. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN‘S DAY
◦ March 8th
◦ Women‘s rights, violence, equality,..

17. FIRST MAY
◦ International Workers‘ Day (Labour Day)
- Public holiday
- 1890 – USA
- Socialism – mandatory parade
◦ First May (Holiday of love)
- 30 April – maypole
- 31 May – Maypole Felling
- Kiss under a blooming tree

19. MOTHER‘S DAY
◦ Second Sunday in May

20. The Day of the Slavic Heralds of Cyril
and Methodius 5.7.
◦ Brothers from Thessaloniki came to Great Moravia to preach the faith in 863

22. The day of the burning Master Jan Hus
6.7.
◦ Priest, reformer and preacher
◦ 1415 in Constance
◦ He fought for the change of the church

24. Czech Statehood Day 28.9.
◦ Memory of the Czech prince Wenceslaus murder (935)

26. The day of the establishment of the
independent Czechoslovak state 28.10.
◦ Independence from Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1918)

28. All Saints' Day 1.11.
◦ Christian holiday - commemoration of All Saints

29. Memory of deceased 2.11.
◦ People remember their deceased loved ones

30. Day of struggle for freedom and
democracy and International Student
Day 17.11.
◦ 1939 - The closure of universities by the Nazis
◦ 1989 - Velvet Revolution - Prague demonstration against the communist regime

31. FREED

33. CHRISTMAS

34. CHRISTMAS COOKIES

35. CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

36. 24th December
• Morning
• Decorating a tree

37. FAMILY HOLIDAYS

38. BIRTHDAY
• Aren’t celebrated every year
• Birthday cake and candles are not to be missed
• Huge variety of possible presents

39. NAMEDAY
• Naming a child and names in calendar
• Minor celebrations

40. BAPTISM
• Christian celebration
• 2. name is given to a baby
• On decline because of atheism in Czechia

41. JUBILEE
• Celebration of special birthday or wedding anniversary
• Birthday Jubilee
- Bigger than usual
- every 10 years
• Wedding Jubilee
- Family reunion and symbolic redoing of marriage
ceremonial
- Different names for different number of year that
spouses are together

42. FUNERAL
• Final farewell to the deceased and opportunity to meet distant relatives
• 4 stages of funeral
- farewell in the church
- ceremonial march to the cemeter
- blessing of the grave
◦ - placing the remains in the grave
• Can be followed by requiem prayer and funeral feast

43. RESOURCES
◦ https://www.navstevnik.cz/900_535231_mse-svata-na-chlumku/
◦ https://prostejovsky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/video-novy-knez-slouzil-v-tistine-svou-prvni-msi.html
https://www.mimibazar.cz/recept/98506/linecke
https://cz.pinterest.com/pin/786300416176979847/
https://www.prozeny.cz/clanek/hvezdne-cukrovi-s-prozenycz-vanilkove-rohlicky-kristiny-kloubkove-16796
http://dortiky.happz.cz/index.php/2016/12/vanocni-prani-5/
https://decoro.cz/jak-zpracovat-jablka-kdyz-je-uroda-vice-nez-bohata-tyto-recepty-vas-nikdy-nezklamou
https://www.mrk.cz/diskuse.php?id=654665
https://www.cksen.cz/blog/vite-jak-vypadaji-tradicni-vanocni-jidla-ve-svete/
https://warcenter.cz/viewtopic.php?t=739972
https://www.dvd-premiery.cz/vanocni-pohadky-ceske-televize-10-dvd/
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/vanoce-pri-baleni-darku-nezapomente-na-detaily-40345506
https://www.praguehere.com/cs/tradicni-ceska-vanocni-jidla
https://www.i-creative.cz/2013/12/12/vanocni-omalovanky/
◦

44. RESOURCES
◦ https://theses.cz/id/zrwsw8/Svtky_a_tradice_v_souasn_rodin_s_pedkolnmi_dtmi.txt
◦ https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohřeb
◦ https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Výročí_svatby
◦ https://motherclub.cz/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/1204/detska-oslava-narozeniny-deti-zabava-1036x608-c.jpg
◦ https://cdnm.westwing.com/image/upload/v1/contenthub/app/uploads/cz/2022/03/15152329/co-pripravit-na-oslavu-60-5.jpeg
◦ https://nova-ott-images-tn.ssl.cdn.cra.cz/r991x558n/1a3bc599-32ae-4d60-a15e-0f9efd99c8d9
◦ https://pismenkov.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hazeni-kytici.jpg
◦ https://cdn.megapixel.cz/gallery/w1380h900/3/452243.jpg?v=1616602377
◦ https://www.svatebnizbozi.cz/media/clanky/auta/dekorace-na-svatebni-auta-F0153.jpg
◦ https://www.farnostsalvator.cz/public/upload/krest.jpg
◦ https://liberecka.drbna.cz/files/drbna/images/page/2013/07/14/1000x1000-1373792187-zlata-svatba-dobri-4.jpg
◦ https://g.denik.cz/57/34/20121016-ova5-pohreb-lipa4.jpg
◦