Hody (literally the Feasts) is an annual traditional celebration held in many villages and towns of historical land Moravia in the Czech Republic.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
Czech Republic
Written in its own script on record as hody.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited source
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What is Hody in plain words?
Hody (literally the Feasts) is an annual traditional celebration held in many villages and towns of historical land Moravia in the Czech Republic. In local script on record, it is written hody.
Where is Hody practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Hody in Czech Republic.
What is the current condition of Hody today?
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Hody (literally the Feasts) is an annual traditional celebration held in many villages and towns of historical land Moravia in the Czech Republic. The festivity is held from May to November in almost all villages and towns of the cultural region of Moravian Slovakia. The time of the celebration differs - each village or town has a church building dedicated to a particular patron saint and usually the nearest Sunday after the date of the saint's day is also the date for celebration of Hody.
The celebration usually takes place on Sunday and may last one or two more days. In the centre of the event stands a festive maypole (Czech: mája or májka) which is usually manually erected one day before the festivity. The maypole is often more than 30 metres tall, built from two or three spruce trees. It is erected with the help of ladders and crowbars. The maypole stands in the centre of a dancing place (in Czech: plac or sólo). People are dancing and singing around with the accompaniment of the brass music.
The main organizer and arranger of Hody is a selected young boy called první stárek (the first stárek - literally the first "old one"). He and a group of young friends (somewhere they are called stáreks - Czech plural: stárci; or they can be called chasa) are responsible for the organization and smooth running of the event. Each stárek (or member of chasa) also has a girl partner, usually called starka or stárka.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Hody (Moravia)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
Hody is annual traditional celebration held in many villages and towns of historical land Moravia in the Czech Republic, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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