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Ukraine Sumy School 5

UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS

The Ukrainian Christmas festive days according to the Julian calendar, start on 6 January, Christmas Eve, and end on 19 January, "Jordan" or Epiphany.

 

 

The image of Svyatyi Mykolai (Saint Nicholas) as a person who brings the Christmas gifts for children, the feast of which is marked on 19 December. It is supposed, that children should find their Christmas gifts under their pillow on that morning.

Sviata Vecherya or "Holy Supper" is the central tradition of the Christmas Eve celebrations in Ukrainian homes. The dinner table sometimes has a few wisps of hay on the embroidered table cloth as a reminder of the manger in Bethlehem.

Kutia (sweet grain pudding) is traditionally served at the Ukrainian Christmas dinner table. It is often the first dish in the traditional twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper (also known as Svyaty Vechir) and is rarely served at other times of the year.

 

 

 

At the end of the Sviata Vechera the family often sings Ukrainian Christmas carols.

The Ukrainian song "Shchedryk" became the basis for the world famous Christmas carol, "Carol of the Bells".