Customs,Traditions,Holidays in Hungary

1. Customs, Traditions, Holidays
in Hungary

2. New Year’s Day
January 1
• New Year’s Day is celebrated with eating lentil
soup and pork, visiting family and friends and
wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
• New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day
celebrations are all about bringing luck,
fortune, health, wealth and happiness for the
coming year.

3. Carnivals
• In Hungary, Carnival is
known as Farsang.
• Hungary celebrates this
festival with food, like
pork, sauerkraut,
stuffed cabbage, and
doughnuts, as well as
with parties and
customs.

4. Carnivals
• Mohács, just south of the
capital city, Budapest, is the
best-known Carnival location
in Hungary.
• Farsang in Mohács is called the
Busójárás Carnival.
• The festival has a long
tradition with legendary
origins in the 17th century
when villagers dressed in
grotesque masks and furry
costumes to frighten away the
invading Turkish forces.
• Nowadays, Busójárás is to
frighten away winter.

5. Carneval in the Kindergarten

6. March 15th 1848
• The main event of
the March 15th celebration
is held at the Hungarian
National Museum where
young Hungarian
revolutionaries held a mass
demonstration on the first
day of the revolution in
1848.
• Festivities include
ceremonial speeches and a
traditional Hussars
procession

7. • This folk custom is still live and
practised widely in Hungary
• Folk customs and beliefs of the
Easter holidays are all connected
with the renewal of nature and
waters purifying and healing
power
• Sprinkling the girls was
supposed to make them good
wives and moms of many.
Easter

8. Easter
Before Easter weekend people are actually wishing girls and woman to get ‘many
sprinklers’. On Easter Monday aka Dousing Day, groups of boys and young men visit
the homes of girls and women of their lives sprinkling them with water, rose water or
nowadays cologne. They recite one of the many existing sprinkling songs (or make
up their own) and request their egg in exchange for the sprinkling. The more
sprinklers the girl gets, the better.

9. Music Talent Festival
in the Kindergarten

10. May 1
• May Day or May 1 is
a public holiday, the
International Workers'
Day
• It is also a traditional
spring holiday. Dances,
singing, and cakes are
usually part of the
celebrations.
• A maypole is set up and
decorated, around which
a maypole dance often
takes place.

11. Mothers’Day
• The first Sunday of May

12. Children’s Day
• The last Sunday of May
• Celebrate our children
with lots of fun, games
and surprises
• ’The children are our
future, we must teach
them well and let them
lead the way, show them
all the beauties they
possess inside.’
(Whitney Houston)

13. Whit Monday
• It marks the end of the Easter cycle
• It is a religious holiday
• Symbol of Holy Spirit

14. August 20
• The greatest national holiday for Hungarians,
celebrated with day-long festivities followed
by fireworks throughout the country
• It is called as St. Stephen’s Day, remebering
Stephen I, the first king of Hungary and
founder of the Kingdom of Hungary, who was
canonized on August 20th,1063 by Pope
Gregory VII.

15. Festivities
The end of harvesting
The celebration of the new bread Fireworks

16. Flower Festival in Debrecen
on 20th August

17. Vintage time, the Eger Wine Festivals,
the celebration of the new wines

18. October 23
• 23rd October 1956 Revolution
• Commemorates the revolution of 1956,
Hungary’s uprising against communism
• It also commemorates the day Hungary was
declared a Republic in 1989.

19. November 1
• All Saint’s Day is a traditional day of honoring
the memory of the deceased. All Soul’s Day is
a custom to light candles and visit the graves
of our passed relatives and friends.

20. Márton’s Day November 11
• The festival of the new wines
• You should eat goose on Márton’s Day.
• If you do not eat goose this day, you will be
starving of hunger all
through the year.

21. December 6
Santa Clause is coming
• The first opportunity for
gift-giving is on Miklós
nap (Nicholas ’ Day)
December 6th
• Children receive small
presents like candies
and toys

22. Honey- cakes making in the
Kindergarten

23. Christmas
December 24-25-26

24. We wish you all Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
Boldog Karácsonyt!

25. Thank you for your attention.