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La data de Tuesday gras is mobile devices compared to the Gregorian calendar (calendar usual which follows the movement du sun and seasons).
She's associate to the data de Easter, located le premier Sunday which follows the full Moon after the 21st March, always understood between the 22 March and the 25 April. Therefore, the Tuesday gras is always fixed between the 3 february and the 9 March ; either just before the period de Lent, i.e. 41 days + 6 Sundays, which is finally 47 days before Easter.
Both days previous were formerly called Sunday fat and Monday fat. In the XNUMXth century century, premier jour gras était le Thursday gras.
The next dates of the Party du Tuesday gras are the mardis following, according to the calculation (**):
March 4, 2025
17th February 2026
9th February 2027
29th February 2028
13th February 2029
March 5, 2030
25th February 2031
10th February 2032
1er March 2033
21th February 2034
6th February 2035
revelry : The revelry related au carnival previous, In the traditional Christian,entry Lent during which the Christian eat « skinny ”, notably refraining from use full meat to dish research le jour of Ash Wednesday (*), remarkable theentry du Lent. THE'abstinence (not eat full meat, or of Egg yolk who is consider as gras) is then observed every fridays of the year and with a attention special the fridays de Lent. According to the gospels, the jour full a week's course where Jesus Christ is crucified is a Friday.
Word " carnival » derives from medieval Latin carne levare, meaning " to take off, remove la chair ", that is to say concretely Supprimer on backgammon throughout the period of Lent la meat or, in other words, the “ gras ».
Mardi Gras, popularly, is also the jour or :
- We taste the pancakes and the famous beignets Vosges from carnival.
– The children dress up and/or ask the neighbors about villages of eggs, sucre, all-purpose flour, etc., to bake cakes or pancakes which are eaten in the late afternoon.
– It is above all the highlight of the carnival where he is celebrated. In Dunkirk, for example, Sunday, Monday and Shrove Tuesday are called “the three joyous ones”. During these three days, the carnival of Dunkirk reached its climax. The whole town dresses up and parades in the streets.
(*) Among Catholics, Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is marked by the imposition of ashes: the priest lays a little ash on the forehead of each faithful, as a sign of the fragility of man, but also of hope in the mercy of God.
(**) Computing: In religion, computing is the calculation used to draw up the calendar of movable feasts, particularly Mardi Gras and Easter.
Mardi Gras in the monde :
- Anglo-Saxon traditions
In Commonwealth countries, traditions are different but related to the Latin Shrove Tuesday, under the name Shrove Tuesday (Absolution Tuesday, from the archaic verb to slash, “Absolve”). In places, this traditional holiday is also called Pancake Tuesday. Several churches offer pancake breakfasts or dinners, sometimes soliciting charitable contributions. Pancakes are eaten with maple syrup (in Canada and the United States), or fruit compote. Locally in England, the traditional pancake race, requires you to travel a certain distance by rotating pancakes in the pan held by hand, without letting them fall.
In New Orleans, the carnival is called Mardi Gras (in French in the text), and remains a very marked tradition. The parades are accompanied by the Marching Bands typical of the music of the region.
- Finland: The Mardi Gras celebrations of Finnish origin are called Laskiainen. In some communities, such as Palo, Minnesota, they are often associated with Shrove Tuesday.
- Estonia: Estonian Mardi Gras is called Vastlapäev. Like their Finnish neighbors, who celebrate Laskiainen, this day is associated with various activities that are generally practiced with family or friends. It is thus traditional to go tobogganing during this day and, to warm up, to eat pea soup with ham.
We also recover the bone of the ham. We make a hole in the middle and tie it to a chain to spin it around and create a hissing noise.
- Russia: Mardi Gras has the Russian equivalent, Maslenitsa, "the week of pancakes". It is a Russian folk festival that dates back to the pagan era. It is celebrated the week before Orthodox Great Lent (seven weeks before Easter). It is therefore the Orthodox Carnival.
- Switzerland: In the canton of Friborg, a little-known tradition continues in the villages of Villars-sous-Mont and Neirivue, every Mardi Gras morning: to the rhythm of the drum, the schoolchildren parade from door to door, disguised as soldiers, sing and collect coins.
There are some differences in the course of the ritual between the two villages, yet very close to each other: the boys of Neirivue wear a kepi and are not armed; those of Villars-sous-Mont wear a cap and are armed with a wooden rifle. The origin of this practice is quite enigmatic: according to several inhabitants of the village, it could go back to the time of the Napoleonic wars, around 1800. It could also find its origin in older parades.
Nowadays, the older ones take it upon themselves every year to teach singing and exercises to the younger ones. Their primary motivation is financial, since each child can earn up to 100 francs. Everyone has their place: the leader, the drum, the flag bearer and at least one soldier. “They must be a minimum of four. If there are only three schoolchildren or less in the village, the parade cannot take place ”, explains the mother of one of the small soldiers, organizer of the event in 2011. The case has only rarely happened. . And entry into the troop is, to this day, reserved for boys: "We carry a gun, not a fairy wand!" », Specifies one of the small participants.
Nursery rhymes, sayings, quotes from Mardi Gras:
Mardi Gras, don't go, you'll eat pancakes. Mardi Gras, don't go, you'll eat chocolate.
Mardi Gras is dead, he is not dead he is sleeping, Ah !! Mardi Gras !! Don't worry, you'll have pancakes. Ah !! Mardi Gras !! Don't worry, you won't have any (Boulonnaise nursery rhyme, Pas-de-Calais).
Shrove Tuesday, don't go, I'm making pancakes, I'm making pancakes. Mardi Gras do not go away, I am making pancakes and you will have some.
Mardi Gras is dead. He must be buried. His crying wife must be consoled. In one, two, three, skip Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras Sayings:
Moon of Mardi Gras, thunder will hear.
On Shrove Tuesday, whoever has no meat kills his rooster. He who does not have a rooster kills his wife.
When Mardi Gras is dressed in green, Easter wears white clothes.
At Mardi Gras, winter is going away.
Mardi Gras in the rain, winter runs away.
If the sun is there for Shrove Tuesday, it will reappear all Lent.
Mardi Gras by the fire, Easter by the door; Mardi Gras by the door, Easter by the fire.
Mardi gras, good weather, beautiful hay.
If the sun is shining early in the morning, Mardi Gras sowing is going well.
On Mardi Gras evening, you have to dance on the manures to have turnips.
Rainy Mardi Gras, makes the cellar oily (Périgord).
On Shrove Tuesday, if the walnut trees are wet, there will be walnuts (Charente).
Moon when you see her new on Mardi Gras, force thunder you will hear (Aveyron).
When Mardi Gras is Fat, Mardi Gras is Fat. (Alpes de Haute Provence)
Quotes:
– “One day a year, Mardi Gras for example, men should remove their masks from other days”, quotes from Eugène Avtsine, said Claude Aveline, 1963.
– “A Turk, who had been in Paris during the carnival, told the sultan, on his return to Constantinople, that the French went crazy on certain days, but that a little ash, which was applied to their foreheads , made them come to their senses”, by the French writer Louis Julien Larcher (1808-1865).