复活蛋

也和话

原来也是被基督教借来的。

Wiki 搬过来的。

"用蛋來象徵生命的復活，在耶穌基督降生之前就已經很流行。西歐人士相信蛋是有兩次生命的，第一次是「新生」，第二次則是「重生」，重生就是象徵了復活的意思。

在基督教出現前，埃及等各地就有將蛋染色以祭神、慶祝春分的習俗。[1][2]

美索不達米亞的早期基督教把蛋染紅以紀念耶穌基督在所流的寶血。[3]

在复活节时，天主教信徒会把蛋涂成红色，请神父祝圣，自己也用作礼物送给朋友，这就是送彩蛋的最早起源。"

The practice of decorating eggshells as part of spring rituals is ancient,[11] with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old.[12] In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.[13] These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.[10]