5. Tradition

1. Harvest

Harvest, or as it is now often called the feast yields are ending ancient harvest celebrations, referring to the completion of arduous toil inserted by human cultivation and gathering force to ensure the crops. They are a relic of the old rites of magic. . Over the years changed the nature of ritual and ceremony ended, as was the impact of changing habitat, changing settlement.
The celebration of the content of magic - ritual transformed the first harvest feast in a typically rural, and then in state ceremony in the Polish People's Republic of mass.
Today the harvest celebrations have become a religious and folk festival, and strong elements of recreational entertainment.

Harvest has the same name - yields.
  Reaper coming back from the field with them made by a crown of ears suspended rake. This took the shape of harvest wreath crown with 4-5 ears at the top of the developments. Made from all kinds of cereals, flowers, decorative ribbons. When the procession came into the house, the first people went by train, we all sang.
After singing the host to receive garland, thanked and invited to play


2. Marzanna

Traditional Rituals

The Burning of Morena is a traditional folk festivals still surviving in Slovakia andCzech Republic. The Drowning of Marzanna, or Burning of Marzanna, is also a traditional folk fest in Poland. These festivals are to symbolically welcome the spring and bury the winter and take place on the day before March 21. The ritual involves setting on fire a straw mannequin representing Morena, or drowning a mannequin in a river, or pretty often both. Although nowadays it has no more religious meaning, there are apparent Slavic mythological roots of this fest, which makes the tradition attractive. Every year children in Polish kindergartens and in incipient years of primary school prepare Marzanna mannequin together in classes. On the last day of winter (a day before March 21) they perform the drowning ritual under supervision of their teachers.
The scene has associations with the medieval custom of drowning women accused of witchcraft. Interpretations of this ritual go as far as to say, that setting fire to a female puppet, made of straw in the last day of winter, that Marzanna's demise, symbolises the triumph of patriarchal, Christian religion over the pagan, female order.

3.Święconka

Meaning "the blessing of the Easter baskets” is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions that takes part on Holy Saturday.
While originally observed by Polish Americans in the U.S., it has become increasingly mainstream in U.S and is starting to grow in the U.K. as the Polish go there to live. Catholic churches, being observed by a wide cross-section of parishes

Polish people bring their Easter baskets to bless their Easter food on Holy Saturday. The baskets are decorated with sprigs of boxwood, the typical Easter evergreen. Observing the creativity of other parishioners is one of the special joys of the event. Traditional Polish churches priest uses a straw brush to sprinkle it with water , others use more modern metal holy water sprinkling wand.

4. Śmigus-Dyngus

Customs and traditions:
The best known and still is, of course, a custom of pouring girls with water, derived from the Slavic customs.
Genesis and History:
Easter is related to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, but most of the customs of that period the Catholic Church took over the pagan traditions associated with spring and welcome nature to awaken to life. The first documented mention of this habit in Poland comes from the 15 C, set the Synod of the Diocese of Poznan from 1420 years on. "Dingus prohibited " comply before the practices, which are inevitably sinful subtext: prohibit, in the second and third men women Easter feast men and women not to worry about balance eggs and other gifts, which are commonly called “dyngować” or to draw water, and he frolics tormentor does not take place without sin, mortal and divine name of the images

5. 11th November

Polish national holiday celebrated on 11th November. It reminds of recovery of Poland of independence in 1918 year after 123 years of dismemberment performed by Austria, Prussia and Russia. In last years state II polish republic holy establish, in 1989 retrieve. The day was establish in 1937 . In years during Nazi occupation 1939-44 and in period from 1945 to1989 , getting around was banned in time of communist government on 11 November. It is celebrated in the whole country but most important commemorations are proceed in Warsaw on the square of Joseph under unknown tomb of soldier Piłsudski.