Traditional folk culture still plays an important role in Czech family life. Common traditions include celebrating life events like births, weddings and deaths through food, songs and costumes. Families also come together to observe holidays, take part in annual festivals and visit folklore museums. While modernization has changed housing and fashion, passing cultural traditions from older to younger generations remains an important part of family identity and community life in the Czech Republic.

1. Traditional folk culture in the life
of a Czech family
„UNVOICED NARRATIVES OF STUDENTS“
The 2nd meeting in Hazlov, the Czech Republic

2. mother fathertwo children – more recently
mostly only one child
grandparents - they mostly live alone

3.  family house - rapidly unfolding way of living
 living in a block of flats – maybe the most common type of housing

4. special ways of living – mobile homes, timber houses
Unfortunately there are many people without their own house or flat – 11 500 people
in CR

5. at work – it depends on the type of work ( formal clothes, uniforms, casual clothes)
school and leisure - casual comfortable clothes

6. Special regional clothing - traditional
costumes
Vlčnov - The ride of the kings
This festival has two hundred years of tradition.
The king runs from the upper end of the village towards
the lower end and is also linked with the popular folk fair
and the possibility of visiting museums and old houses.
The king – mostly small boy
about 10 years old

7. Soup : potato, garlic, goulash, tripe, cabbage with
saussages
Main food - mainly from meat - pork, beef and poultry.
Dessert - buns and cakes
sirloin sauce with dumplings
pork, sauerkraut and dumplings
potato pancakes
cakes
buns

8. Czech beer – Pilsner Urquell ; Budweiser Budvar
Czech wine – especially South Moravia – Valtice, Velké Pavlovice

9. boys girls
 sport
 computer and videogames
 staying out with friends
 staying out with friends
 dancing, singing, Art
common activities
 playing the instrument (the quitar, piano, flute)
 telling with parents, friends
 watching TV
 preparation to school

10. Some people can´t or don´t want to realize their free time.
Why?
 theatre
 cinema
 books
 camps for children
expensive
activities, many
families haven´t
enough money
for them
workaholics
 ussually two or more jobs
 leisure activities only with
economic benefits
 no holiday
 no relaxation and rest
Great ills of our time A lot of people live side by side but not together

11. Not only children like fairy tales, poems, songs, traditional pilgrimages and
processions

12. The international folklore festival in Strážnice (Moravia)
is the largest folk festival in the Czech Republic

13. Families that love history of folklor often visit museums
The most famous ones are :
Museum of Southeast Moravia village - Strážnice
Wallachian Museum in nature – Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Slovacke museum – Uherské Hradiště

14.  birth , wedding, death
 birthday celebrations
 life jubilees
 Easter whip
 welcome to life, christening

15. These traditions are very important in a family life :
 children watch the preparation – cleaning, baking, cooking, hospitality
towards other people
 meeting of parents, grandparents, children
 common dining and telling

16. Carnival, welcome spring, Easter
 traditional food - a dish called Judas, Easter lamb
 Easter whip, painting Easter eggs
Village fair and feasts with songs, pastry and special clothes – folk costume
Wine harvest

17. Christmas
 decorating the Christmas tree
 preparation of Christmas Eve dishes
 mushroom soup, potato salad and
fish,apples, sweets
Feast of St. Barbara - unmarried girls plack cherry branches to get married
Saint Nicholas Day

18. Three Kings - contributions to charitable organizations
 singing carols
 watching fairy tales
Three Nuts for Cinderella

19. I can't stop looking,
Have a nice day
how pretty you look even after our presentation.