We have today, February 20, with households across the country to light the charcoal and prepare all kinds of meats.

The reason we have been established to eat meat on this day is because preparations are being made for the great fasting of Lent, so households have the opportunity to consume their red meat in a festive and happy way.

The word “Ciknop Thursday” comes from the word “chicna” (the smell of roasted meat) and from the word “Thursday” and is celebrated 11 days before Clean Monday.

It is a day of preparation for the Great fasting of Lent before Easter, A preparation that lies in trying to experience the upcoming days of the Great Great.

Cicnop Thursday is in the 2nd week of the ecclesiastically called Triodion, which consists of three weeks before we enter the Great Forty, namely Fasting before Easter:

  • The 1st week of adhesion or adopter or even absolute,
  • The 2nd week of meat or meat -eating,
  • The 3rd week of a cheese or cheese that no longer eats meat but we only eat dairy products

During the first week of the Triodion, that is, the usual fasting on Wednesday and Friday, while in the second week of “Apocalypse” was the fasting, and thus Ciknop Thursday is of particular importance and was considered a festive day. It comes after fasting and the next day we have fasting, that is, preparation for the coming.

The reason this celebration has been established Thursday is that the Orthodox Church considers Important fasting on Wednesday and Fridaywhen the intermediate day was selected from Wednesday and Friday, that is, Thursday.

Because in the way that the cooking of the Cicnop Thursday has been established, charcoal or fried, It emerges intense chicken-lashes, called a tsiknopper.

Has been established to dominate the red color on Thursday, whether the meat is this, or the wine, to remind us of the Easter and resurrection.