Pancake Day

It was Packcake day yesterday.... after eating a lot of pancakes I have done a but reseach on it... haha... I thought, what a funny name of the day~ maybe thats a funny story behind that... ah... but actually it quite meaningful lerh~~~ to christian... never heard about this in hk though... below are something about the pancake day~~~

Shrovetide
The last three days before the beginning of Lent (Lent is the 40 days, except sunday, before Easter. suppose people have to give up food within these 40 days...~~) is known as Shrovetide. The old names for these days were:
Quinquagesima Sunday - Shrove Sunday (The fiftieth day before Easter)
Collop Monday - Shrove Monday (Named after the traditional dish of the day: collops of bacon served with eggs. In addition to providing little meat, the collops were also the source of the fat for the following day's pancakes.)
Pancake Day - Shrove Tuesday (The day on which all fats and cream had to be used up.)

Shrovetide was celebrated with games, sports, dancing and other revelries. There were feasts to use up the food that could not be eaten during the Lenten fast. Football was played in the streets and Nickanan Night (as Shrove Monday evening was called in Cornwall) was a time for boys to run riot in the villages: hiding gates, taking off door knockers, and making off with anything that householders had forgotten to lock away.

Shrove Tuesday is the last day before the period which Christians call Lent. This day is one of the moveable feasts in the church calendar and is directly related to the date on which Easter falls.

Shrove Tuesday always falls 47 days before to Easter Sunday, so the date varies from year to year and falls between February 3 and March 9.

The name Shrove comes from the old word "shrive" which means to confess. On Shrove Tuesday, in the Middle Ages, people used to confess their sins so that they were forgiven before the season of Lent began.

Shrove Tuesday is a day of celebration as well as penitence, because it's the last day before Lent.

Lent is a time of abstinence, of giving things up. So Shrove Tuesday is the last chance to indulge yourself, and to use up the foods that aren't allowed in Lent. Pancakes are eaten on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent.

Other names for Shrove Tuesday
In England we call Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day.
In France they call it Mardi Gras, which means Grease or Fat Tuesday.
In Iceland the day is known as "Sprengidagur" (Bursting day).

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you can find out why Easter are in different date every year on the link as well!!! :) I found myself haven't wasted the pancake lerh :D hehe...