{"id":305685,"date":"2021-01-21T16:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=305685"},"modified":"2021-01-21T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:50:45","slug":"orthodox-high-school-students-lay-garland-of-red-carnations-on-eminescus-shoulders-to-mark-national-culture-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/orthodox-high-school-students-lay-garland-of-red-carnations-on-eminescus-shoulders-to-mark-national-culture-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox high school students lay garland of red carnations on Eminescu\u2019s shoulders to mark National Culture Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The students of the Orthodox Pedagogical High School “Anastasia Popescu” in Bucharest continued this year the tradition of placing a garland of red carnations on the shoulders of the statue of Mihai Eminescu in front of the Romanian Athenaeum to mark Romania\u2019s National Culture Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof. Monica \u0218erb\u0103nescu, the director of the high school, posted several photos, accompanied by verses from Eminescu\u2019s poem “C\u0103lin (pages from a tale)”.<\/p>\n

“The wonder of Eminescu’s poetry and the beauty of the Romanian language are found whole in these verses, which do not need precious labels or statements, because, like a prayer, they include both mind and heart,” Monica Serbanescu wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The high school director explained that the garland is “a symbol of a cultural stubbornness, taken from the pages of the writer Ana Blandiana”.<\/p>\n

Poet Ana Blandiana wrote in the volume \u201cFalse Treatise on Manipulation\u201d (2013) that this gesture was like a breath of fresh air for writers in the 1980s, when January was marked by the anniversaries of the couple Nicolae and Elena Ceau\u0219escu.<\/p>\n

On her personal Facebook account, Ioana Revnic, a professor at the Orthodox high school in Bucharest, explained how the little ritual of laying the garland in the last years of communism took place.<\/p>\n

“In the ’80s, on January 15, the writer Geo Bogza ordered from the same flower shop in Kog\u0103lniceanu Square a Christmas tree woven with red carnations, at least five meters long, and it was placed on the shoulders of the statue. The ceremony was attended by a few, “friends of Eminescu”, most of them – writers. Among them was Ana Blandiana “, wrote the professor.<\/p>\n

The statue of the national poet in front of the Romanian Athenaeum is the work of the sculptor Gheorghe Anghel.<\/p>\n