English Holidays

New Year’s Day is the first day of new year and is celebrated on January 1. It is a public holiday often celebrated with fireworks at the midnight as the new year starts.
Good Friday is the Friday before Easter. Good Friday, also caled Holy Friday, Black Friday, or Great Friday, is a holiday when Christians remember Jesus Christ’s death.
Easter is one of the most important holidays in Christianity. In England it’s a time for giving and receiving presents, mostly Easter eggs. We can say that the egg is the most popular emblem of Easter, but spring-time flowers are also used to stress the nature’s awakening. Nowadays there are a lot of chocolate Easter eggs, having some small gifts inside. But a real hard-boiled egg, decorated and painted in bright colours, still appears on breakfast tables on Ester Day, or it’s hidden in the house or garden for children to finny. …