Good afternoon to all: here is the third part of the web project:
CULTURE:
A. Traditions and customs
B. Dishes and typical clothing
C. Important celebrations
D.Art ( music,paintings, architecture)
E. Languages
F. Main holidays
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Traditions and customs
ResponderEliminarThe Egyptians celebrate their celebrations depending on their religion: the Muslims own of the Islam and the coptos coming from the old Egyptian tradition. The Islamic calendar (or hégira) counts less on eleven days than the gregoriano. Evenness ace-Heal is the celebration of the new year, and the Moulid an-Nabi, that usually is festejar in May, commemorates the birth of the prophet. Parades in the illuminated streets are organized, with drums, special candies and the consequent banquets. The Ramadán, very important in the Islamic year, is celebrated during his ninth month (at the moment in November). Throughout this period, Mahoma received the revelation of the Corán and, by respect, the faithfuls do not eat nor drink until the putting of the sun. The end of the Ramadán (You go al-Fitr) supposes the aim of the uninformed one, which is celebrated with great joy and diversion. You go al-Adhá is the time from peregrination to Mecca. Each Muslim must at least once make it in his life. The ritual of the Mahmal is developed in each town to the passage of the travelling ones, to which to carpets and shrouds for the trip are given to them. It is celebrated in February.
The Mosques, that are like temples where those of a single faith meet all to render cultured, can be entered neither with shoes, nor with short articles. The weddings are another custom that is made so much with relatives and friends. Before the wedding, the future fiancès take a walk in car giving to know by the environs that that day will marry. It is custom that extensive families, who include aunts, uncles and cousins, live under a same ceiling. In most of the houses, a girl is protected by her brothers and usually is accompanied by them in public. Traditionally, the honor of a man is based on the good that protects the women who are to their position. The parents usually play an important role in the planning of the future of their children. The children assume the responsibility to maintain and to take care of of their parents in the oldness. The Muslim medical instructors do not eat pig nor drink alcohol. The used phrases to salute depend to a great extent on the differences between the social classes of the individuals. However, the friends of he himself sex usually narrow the hands and to kiss itself on one and another cheek and sometimes the men finish with a kiss in the forehead only salute to the women with a handshake if the woman extends her hand first. Otherwise, the greeting is verbal. It is considered improper to use the christian name, unless an indication has been received to do it thus. The members of he himself sex tend to stay close during the conversation, but those of opposite sexes maintain the intervals. The good friends of he himself sex can walk of the hand in public, and the married pairs or it jeopardize, taken of the arm. Otherwise, a man cannot touch to a woman in public. The married children usually visit the parents Fridays and the holidays. The visits of businesses, generally, begin with a slight conversation and a coffee or a tea, to create a climate of confidence and understanding.
Dishes and typical clothing
ResponderEliminarThe diet of most of the Egyptians includes rice, bread, fish, lamb, chicken and turkey. Also they are taken habitually tahina (a paste done with sésamo, oil, garlic and lemon), tomatos, yogurt and cucumber. Between the traditional meals they emphasize: a plate with habas called foul, stuffed vegetables, ta' miyya (balls of fried chick-peas and spices, also called falafel) and the Egyptian flat bread. In all the meals bread is taken. Kofta (meat pricked with spices roasted in the fire) and kebab (similar to kofta except in the meat, that is not pricked) is two popular local plates. However, the meat is expensive. Between appetizers it emphasizes the bread of toots, served with a paste like the tahina; the hoummos, fact with chick-peas; and the dribble ghanoug, elaborated with puré of eggplants and tahina. Stuffed leaves of grapevine, or dolmas, are another one of the Egyptian culinarias specialties.
At the present time there are basically four types of linen always depending on the thickness of the thread, the real linen (that is finest), fine subtle Fabric, subtle Fabric and smooth Fabric. Of this form you must request and differentiate the clothes that you wish to buy to bring of gift or to use in your trip. Throughout all history the used color more is the target, since they directly associate with the pulcridad and the purity.
Woman:
Peasant women would wear a gallebaya outdoors but in the city gallibaya tended to be worn only indoors. For public wear a woman would wear a wide woman's dress called a tob sebleh.
Wide trousers were worn as underclothing (tshalvar or shintijan) gathered below knee and falling to ankles.
The woman's kaftan was called a yelek. This was lined, with the neck open to breast and buttoned or laced along side seams for shaping. It had high side slit over trousers. Ceñido con mantón. Girded with shawl Women would wear a shirt under the yelek, and a djubbeh or binnish over it.
In Alexandria and Cairo, women would also wear the melaya luf - a large rectangular wrap worn for modesty, warmth, and used to carry things.
City women often worn a bur`a - a long rectangular face veil either of white cotton or open weave - and a headscarf (sometimes over a skullcap - taqiyah). Another headcovering was the mandil (headscarf) sometimes decorated with pom poms. Among the fellahin a bag like hattah was sometimes worn.
Men:
The basic traditional Egyptian garment for men is a long shirt (gallibaya). Tilke also distinguishes one with a looser fit under the arms (eri) and very wide version of the gallibaya called a kamis which was worn by fellahin. While working fellahin would hitch up the skirt of the gallebaya and wrap it around their thighs.
Trousers (sserual) were sometimes worn under the gallebaya.
Over the gallebaya a kaftan (often striped) was worn.. A kaftan is a full length garment like a coat with long wide sleeves open in front and often bound by a fabric belt (hizan). Over the kaftan was a binish - a cloth overcoat with wide sleeves - often slit below usually dark grey and unlined. Alternatively, a djubbeh which had was more complex cut than the binish could be worn especially by Turks during the Ottoman occupation. The `ulama also wore a jubbah over stripped kaftan. The jubbah was a long, wide sleeved gown which reached to feet and was buttoned half way down.
However, from the 1800s European dress replaced traditional dress among the Ottoman court and this was taken up by members of the elite.. Therefore, senior civil servants and members of the ruling intelligentsia could be seen in Egypt in European style clothing.
However European headwear was not adopted. Instead Sultan Mahmud Khan II decreed that checheya heargear would be worn. In Egypt this was called "tarboosh". Later Mohammed Ali was to incorporate the tarboosh as part of the military uniform. This was abolished as headwear after the 1952 revolution. What was not worn by Egyptians was the Arab kufeya and `igal - except possibly among some Bedouin.
Important celebrations
ResponderEliminarIn Egypt, the western gregoriano calendar is used in the businesses and the policy, but to calculate the Muslim celebrations the lunar calendar is used. The lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the year of the gregoriano calendar. During the month of Ramadán, the Muslims do not eat nor drink from the exit of the Sun to the decline, and they are only fed at night. The' Aid el-Fitr, the second more important Islamic celebration, celebrates the end of the Ramadán and it extends during three days. The' Aid el-Adha is main the Islamic celebration. It is observed of that they are not in favor from pilgrimage to Mecca. It commemorates the disposition of Abraham to sacrifice to its son by order of Wing. Many Egyptian families - specially the well-to-do sacrifice animals to remember that Wing allowed Abraham to replace its son by a lamb. The meat of the sacrifice shares with the less privileged families. The anniversary of Mahoma (Maulid el-Nabey) is another outstanding Muslim celebration. During this colorful celebration, special candies in the streets are sold. Sham el-Nasseem, Monday subsequent to Passover copta, is a festival that celebrates the spring, and that it has been observed during thousands of years. It is a day to breathe the primaveral breeze (nasseem means “primaveral breeze”) and to organize picnic in the borders of the Nile. Other festividades coptas are: Christmas (7 of January), the Domingo de Palma and the Domingo de Passover (in the spring). The Day of the Work the 1 of May takes place. The Day of Revolution (23 of July) remembers the 1952 revolution, in which Egypt stopped being a monarchy and it became an independent republic. The Day of the Armed Forces (6 of October) commemorates the surprise attack that Egypt sent against Israel, in 1973, to recover the Peninsula of the Sinaí.
Art:
style of dance: ahidous, ahouache, áwâlim, bandari, beduoin, bamboutiyeh, debke, fellahin, guerda, hadra, ghawazee, zaar, urban beledi and more
music: The tonal system, maqamat, awazan, wazn
Languages: Arabic
Main holidays: January 7th nativity, April 25th (Day of the Liberation), May 1st (Day of the Work), July 23rd (Day of the Revolution) and October 6th (Day of the Armed Forces)