Name: EASTERのすべてを知る (Learn all about EASTER)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:31:48.000Z
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Hello. I'm Gill at engVid, and today we have a
lesson on: Easter, and what's it all about?

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So, if you're in a country where Easter is
celebrated, you will already know a lot about

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it, but maybe if you're not in an English-speaking
country, this will be useful for you to know

the vocabulary connected with Easter in English-speaking
countries. You may be in a country where Easter

isn't celebrated, so this is also designed to
explain the background, some of the history

connected with Easter, and all the sort of
traditions and the things that people do to

celebrate Easter. And if you're in... For
example, if you're in the U.K., you will notice

that every spring around March or April there
is an Easter holiday where there are two public

holidays, the schools have two weeks' holiday,
so you'll be aware of this Easter holiday

period. So this is designed to explain
some of the background to it. Okay.

So, it's a bit of a mixture, but going back
hundreds of years before Christianity, for

example, I think people celebrated the coming
of spring after the long, cold winter, so

it's a kind of spring celebration when, you
know, the flowers start coming out, and blossom

on the trees, and so on. Blossom. If you have
fruit trees, like an apple tree or a cherry

tree, they get flowers appearing on the tree,
either white or pink, so that's blossom. And

then the flowers that grow. So... and little
animals, often animals are born in the spring.

They're born all year round, of course, but in
particular spring is associated with little

animals being born, like little chicks that
come out of eggs; little, yellow, fluffy birds;

tiny, little chicks. They are associated with
Easter, as well as flowers. Rabbits as well

are associated with Easter. And eggs, because
eggs are about things being born or rebirth,

the rebirth of the... of the season, the spring
coming back after the winter when nothing

seemed to grow. So, people, you know... people
generally feel happier and better when spring

comes because the weather gets warmer. Of
course it depends what part of the planet

you're on, because I know March and April
in somewhere like Brazil, for example, it's

not... it's not your spring period, but I
think people still celebrate Easter at that

time of year anyway. But in where we are in the
U.K. and also North America, it is the spring.

So, it falls in March or April, and people
send cards sometimes that say: "Happy Easter",

and you get pictures of flowers, and little
chicks, and rabbits, and eggs. And so the

eggs, they can either be real, you know, chicken
eggs, hens' eggs from birds, or they can be

chocolate eggs. So the shops... of course,
shops sell eggs all the year round, real eggs;

but also chocolate eggs, a lot of them are
sold just before Easter. In fact, usually

the shops, being very commercially-minded, as
soon as Christmas is over and January comes,

you start to see chocolate Easter eggs in
the supermarkets, which it's a bit early in

January, but that's what the shops are like.
So, you get chocolate eggs, and also... In

the U.K. anyway, I'm not sure about other
countries, you have a sweet... a bun with

fruit in it, which is called a hot cross bun.
And it's a round... not a cake exactly. It's

more like bread, but it's quite sweet, and
it has a cross on it in a lighter colour,

so it's a dark-brown or medium-brown colour
when it's baked in the oven, but it has a

whiter-coloured or cream-coloured cross on
it, which connects with one of the religious

associations that Easter has, which we'll
come to a bit later. Okay. So, all of these

Also, there's a thing called an Easter bonnet,
which is a hat. Usually women, they might

have a hat and they will add a lot of flowers
to it, and decorate it with ribbons. They

might even put little... Not real ones, but
they might put little chicks on it; little,

yellow birds on it, but not real ones, not
live ones, but artificial ones. And there's

a song and a film I think connected with this,
Easter bonnet. And people might have a parade

in the street, they have a competition for
who's wearing the best Easter bonnet, and

somebody can win the competition. So, that
can happen as well. And all the flowers, and

chicks, and everything are still
associated with the Easter idea.

And another nice thing about it is that we
get two days' holiday at Easter. So, they're

official public holidays in the U.K. and I
think in some other countries, too. We have

a Friday, and then of course Saturday, Sunday,
that's the weekend, and then we have a Monday,

so we have a four-day weekend basically. The
Friday is called... In the religious terminology,

the Friday is called Good Friday and the Monday
is called Easter Monday. Okay. So, Friday

there's a tradition that people eat fish on
Good Friday. Some people eat fish on Fridays

generally all through the year as well, but
Good Friday particularly people might decide

to eat fish rather than meat. Okay. But then
Easter Monday or possibly the Sunday, Easter

Sunday, people will have a meal which is often
a roast, turkey, or chicken, or some sort

of meat or lamb with vegetables. It's a bit
like the Christmas meal or a Thanksgiving

meal in America, so it's a big meal with meat
and vegetables because people have more time

over that long weekend. So either Easter Monday
or Easter Sunday they will have that meal

Okay, so nowadays Easter, it's still partly
religious, it comes from some religious ideas

connected with Christianity, but also people
just think of it as... If it's not religious,

the opposite of religious is secular, meaning
just ordinary, everyday life; non-religious.

So: "secular" just means not religious. So...
okay, no connection with religion is "secular",

just ordinary life. So, in Christianity, Jesus
was executed, he was killed on the cross,

the crucifixion. Okay. So, and that happened,
that is connected with this Good Friday. That's

supposed to be the date that coincides with
that event, the crucifixion, the execution

on the cross. Okay. Okay. So, but then in
the Bible after the crucifixion on the...

If that was a Friday, then Jesus was buried,
put in a tomb, but two days later, I suppose

on the Sunday... That would be the Sunday,
then, Easter Sunday that comes in between

here, he mirac-... There was a miracle. Some
two women went to the tomb, but they found

that the tomb was open and there was no body
inside. So, they thought: "Well, somebody's

stolen the body", but then somebody came to
them and said: "He's not here. He's risen",

meaning: "He's gone up to Heaven." Okay. So,
there's this idea of the resurrection, which

means to rise. So, to sort of still be alive
really, but to go up to Heaven. Not dead anymore,

but alive, but gone to Heaven. So, that's
called the resurrection, coming back to life

in a way, but going up to Heaven. So, that was
seen to be a miracle. You know, something

that can't really happen usually in normal
life. So, that's always been celebrated as

a very important event in the Christian religion,
which is why we have Good Friday connected

with the crucifixion, and then Easter Monday...
No, sorry. Easter Sunday in here which coincides

with the resurrection. So,
Easter is a celebration of that.

But it's also connected with the Jewish religion,
the Passover which was much, much earlier

with the... What's called the exodus of the
Jewish people from Egypt, who they had been

taken to Egypt as slaves and made to work
there as slaves, but they wanted to get back

to their own land, so this exodus meant...
Meaning coming out of Egypt, leaving Egypt,

going back to their own country was another kind
of miraculous event, really, how it happened.

So, that sort of happened around... It sort
of connected with the same religious festival

at the same time of year, so there is that
connection, too, which is much older than

the crucifixion and resurrection story. Okay, so
that's the religious side. It's all a bit complex.

But apart from the religious story, which a
lot of people still believe in, there is

the secular, non-religious side of Easter
where, you know, a lot of working people just

think: "Oh, great, we get... We get two extra
days off work", which if they're on a salary,

you know, they are paid holidays, so to have two
extra days at the weekend and have a four-day

weekend, it's quite nice if you're a working
person and you've been working hard; it gives

you a break from your work. And also for children
at school, they get two weeks because it's

made to coincide with the terms, the three
terms of the year, and where the term begins

and ends. One term ends before Easter, then
there's a two-week break, and then the new...

The summer term starts after Easter. So schoolchildren,
and colleges and universities as well, have