Sham el NessimEgypt Spring Festival

The festival of sham el Nessim, which handed down through the generations distinctive in Egypt for the ancient Egyptians to become a popular holiday celebrated by all classes of people regardless of their religion , whether Muslim or Christian , where historians believe that the Pharaohs were celebrating him for nearly five thousand years .

And different rituals to celebrate this feast for the rest festivals Egyptians , since taking the food such as eggs and salted fish, along with onions , lettuce , and symbolizes all kind of these foods to believe certain to the Pharaohs , as symbolized by the egg to create life and lettuce solutions spring onions to the will of life and overcome the disease.

The list of foods characteristic of this feast table : ( eggs - and Alvesik ( salted fish ) - onions - lettuce - ) has taken many of those celebrating Spring in the countries of the West and much of the Middle Easter festival appearances and passed it in the spring festivals .

Colored eggsthe most famous food for sham el Nessim

Pharaonic inscriptions on the perception of time and the spring harvest and growth

How people celebrate sham al Nessim nowadaysAnd turns the celebration of sham el Nessim

with the sunrise of the new day - to a folk festival, involving communities of various people, come out people to parks, fields and open places, bringing with them certain types of foods they eat that day, such as: eggs, Alvesik (salted fish) , lettuce, onions, (green gram).

Egyptians celebrate out to the countryside or parks

Students, art about sham el NessimSpring feast