[- Where does the tradition of painting Easter eggs come from?] - Easter is the oldest holiday of Christianity, establishing a bridge between the Old and the New Testaments. The fundamental distinction between Christianity and other religions consists in the fact that the substitution sacrifice of the pre-Christian god was replaced by Jesus’ sacrifice, brought once on Golgotha, in the name of all the people and ritually repeated by believers each year. In the Christian tradition, the painted egg is the symbol of the Savior, who leaves the tomb and comes back to life, as the hen chicken from the shell. Earlier, the eggs were colored yellow using plants – symbolizing the sun, and red – the color of the sun at dawn or sunset. Later they started to paint figures of Jesus, of angels, lambs, or using astral or zoomorphic symbol. [- How do you do it?] - As a rule we paint fresh eggs. Them, we prepare the special brush. In ancient times they used candles instead, or goose feathers. We melt the wax, added some coal dust, and then we paint with this substance the pictures we want. Then they are set in paint. Now they use modern decoration techniques: they paint, carve eggs, paint leaves of beads. It takes you about an hour to engrave an egg, if you use only one color. As a rule you use 2-6 colors. [- What are the most frequent symbols painted on the Easter eggs?] - Numerous and everyone is painted in several ways, geographically differing. The most popular are the motives from flora or fauna, representing household or field events, even industry-related one. [- How to they knock eggs on Easter?] Knocking the eggs is done according to rules differing from area to area. As a rule it is the family oldest man to knock the first. In some zones, the shells are thrown on ground to fertilize it, or are added to food for animals and birds.