在歐洲許多國家，復活主日的主餐均食羔羊肉，因為在祝聖羔羊時，可讓人紀念摩西借著羔羊的血，領導以色列人出埃及，而這羔羊(後來稱為逾越節的羔羊)是耶穌的預表：祂是上帝的聖潔羔羊，藉祂在十字架上所留的血，使人類得以洗淨罪，脫離魔鬼的奴役。蛋也象徵春天及新生命的開始。到了基督徒的時代，更賦予了一層宗教意義：象徵耶穌復活走出石墓。而麵包則使基督徒們想到耶穌是永生的活糧。在歐洲許多國家中，復活節通常會另外烤制特別的復活節麵包，麵包上畫有基督耶穌的字樣、十字架，或羔羊的圖案等，以紀念基督。
復活節簡介（英文）
a sunday between march 22 and april 25
the meaning of many different customs observed during easter sunday have been buried with time. their origins lie in pre-christian religions and christianity. all in some way or another are a salute to spring, marking re-birth. the white easter lily has come to capture the glory of the holiday. the word easter is named after eastre, the anglo-saxon goddess of spring. a festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox (春分).
people celebrate the holiday according to their beliefs and their religious denominations (命名). christians commemorate good friday as the day that jesus christ died and easter sunday as the day that he was resurrected (復活). protestant settlers brought the custom of a sunrise service, a religious gathering at dawn, to the united states.
this year easter will be celebrated on sunday april 11, xx. on easter sunday children wake up to find that the easter bunny has left them baskets of candy. he has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. children hunt for the eggs all around the house. neighborhoods and organizations hold easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize.
the easter bunny is a rabbit-spirit. long ago, he was called the easter hare. hares and rabbits have frequent multiple births so they became a symbol of fertility. the custom of an easter egg hunt began because children believed that hares laid eggs in the grass. the romans believed that all life comes from an egg. christians consider eggs to be the seed of life and so they are symbolic of the resurrection of jesus christ.
why we dye, or color, and decorate eggs is not certain. in ancient egypt, greece, rome and persia eggs were dyed for spring festivals. in medieval europe, beautifully decorated eggs were given as gifts.
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