In the evening before Christmas, the women prepare 12 types of food in memory of the 12 Apostles. The food is made from the grain, fruit and vegetables that they want to grow that year: beans, pea, potatoes, plums, apples, pears and boiled wheat. “It is the same ‘coliva’, but they call it sweetened boiled wheat on Christmas. They put this food on the table and wait for the priest who goes from house to house to bless it. Afterward, the people give the blessed food to relatives and neighbors to remember those who passed away. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, folklorist Valentina Iarovoi, scientific researcher at the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, said the Christmas dinner is rich in meat, especially pork. The traditional Christmas dishes include forcemeat rolls of cabbage or vine leaves, pies and meat jelly. They also prepare pickled cabbage with pork chops, domestic sausage and ham. The women also bake small or larger knot-shaped bread. They first make two pieces of bread in the shape of figure 8. When they are taken out of the oven they are put near the icon and are kept until the spring feast of Saint Gheorghe. In spring they are steeped in water and given to animals as food. Singing carols is another Christmas tradition. The women bake small knot-shaped bread for the caroling children and larger knot-shaped bread for adult carolers. The unmarried girls decorate the bread with basil and wait for the carolers. The carolers are invited in the house and they sing a special song, thanking for the bread. Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, celebrated generally as a religious and cultural holiday on December 25, according to the Georgian calendar, or on January 7, according to the Julian calendar. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season. In Moldova, most of the people celebrate Christmas according to the old calendar on January 7.