What are ‘Easter Eggs’?

In many places abroad, after the spring equinox every year, the first Sunday after the first full moon is "Easter". Many Westerners will play a game of finding Easter eggs on that day when they were young. There will also be some small gifts hidden in the eggs. Those who find the eggs will be very excited. Therefore, the eggs are the most typical symbol of "Easter", representing surprise and other things. Hidden secrets.

Most holidays in the UK have religious origins. Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox. It was originally the day to commemorate the birth of Astalu, the half-sister of the pagan god Baal in Western Asia. Astalu was also Baal's mistress. According to legend, Baal learned that his sister Astalu was born in a swan egg, so he went to look for it in the bushes. When he found it, he held it in his arms and hatched a rabbit. The rabbit grew up to become a beautiful woman and married Baal. He lived with Baal and later saved Baal's life when he was in danger. The etymology of the English word Easter is Asta Road.

There are many traditional celebrations for Easter, and colored eggs are the most typical symbol of Easter. It symbolizes vitality and vitality. The custom and tradition of celebrating Easter with colored eggs has been going on for centuries. In ancient times, people often regarded eggs as a symbol of fertility and resurrection. Because it breeds new life. Later, Christians gave the egg a new meaning, believing it to be a symbol of the tomb of Jesus, from which the future life would break free.

On Easter, people often dye eggs red to represent the blood shed by Jesus during his crucifixion and to symbolize the joy after resurrection. Of course, since they are "Easter eggs" they cannot all be red. Different cultures have different traditions for the decoration of Easter eggs. In order to commemorate the martyrdom of Jesus, the Greeks dyed eggs crimson to represent the color of blood. In parts of Germany and Austria, eggs are dyed green for Easter Sunday (the last Thursday before Easter, when the King or Queen of England traditionally gives money to the poor). The Slavs dyed their eggs in various patterns of gold and silver.

There is also an ancient custom of giving hard-boiled eggs to children on the street for playing games. They dropped Easter eggs from the hillside: whoever's egg breaks last wins. All Easter eggs belong to him. The White House in the United States also plays this game every year, which is just rolling eggs on the lawn.

The rabbit is also a symbol of Easter. Because rabbits are highly reproductive, people also regard them as the performer of new life. People often tell children vividly that Easter eggs are laid by rabbits, and put the eggs in the garden for the children to play egg hunting games. Most of the fun of this game is crawling through the bushes to find Easter eggs and candies wrapped in plastic balls. Enjoying the found Easter eggs and candies comes second.

During Easter, it has also become a Western custom to play the "egg rolling game" or give Easter eggs as gifts to others.

How to make Easter eggs

1. Poke a small hole in the egg to release the egg white and yolk.

2. Paint the egg shell with colored Paint stroke patterns.

3. After drying, hide it somewhere and ask the children to find it.

2. Dai Easter Eggs

In the beginning of the second lunar month for Dai children Ten Easter Egg Festival customs. On this day, children will dye hard-boiled eggs in yellow, red, green, purple and other colors and take them to the wild in small bags. After playing, they will have a dinner together to eat the eggs they brought. They only eat egg whites and keep the yolks to take home to their parents and brothers to show respect for their elders.

3. Easter Eggs Buried in Software

There are some little things hidden in our commonly used software. These little things are called Easter Eggs. . Easter eggs include a wide range of content, from simply listing developers to 3D video games. There are such Easter eggs in our commonly used software such as Windows, Word and Excel, as well as IE, the browser we use to surf the Internet.

In the "Help" or "About" of the software, you can generally not find the list of this software development team, such as project managers, programmers, testers, etc.

Do the developers want to remain anonymous? Of course not! This is due to the regulations of many software companies. But the developers are smart and use another way to announce their names - this way is "Easter Egg" (EasterEgg). When writing software, add some hidden information such as the list of team members, which requires specific operations to be revealed. This is an early Easter egg.

Later, in order to commemorate the birth of a certain software, some programmers would design some cute pictures or music and hide them for users to find by themselves. Now, more and more people like this method and it has gradually developed into a well-known habit. Hunting for Easter eggs in software is like hunting for Easter gifts, full of freshness and excitement. The expression of Easter eggs is also flexible and diverse. A small game, a piece of beautiful music, some pranks, etc. can all be Easter eggs. They inject vitality into the software and become an alternative landscape. We say that the wonderful things are "resurrected" from this.

An Easter egg is something that software engineers intentionally hide in software for everyone to find; it can exist in various operating systems of Microsoft and also in Apple's Macintosh system. appear in; the Easter egg is not a bug, and it has no malicious code, so it will not affect the use of the software; it will not actively run in front of you, but requires you to actively look for it; it is not marked anywhere in the software It requires you to explore by yourself; it not only tells you who the author of the software is, it also tells you what humor is and what corporate culture is; it not only lets you watch it, but also lets you do it yourself, and you have to use your brain. Only then can you discover them, they are the Easter eggs that symbolize the wisdom and creativity of programmers! Easter eggs can take many forms, such as a developer list, a small game, a piece of beautiful music, a few cartoon characters, a humorous picture, a few jokes, a wonderful 3D video game... let's put it this way , Easter eggs can be text, music, pictures, games, it can be in almost any form, but in general, the above forms of expression are the main ones.

Tips: When digging for "Easter eggs", pay attention to the version number of the software. Not all versions of the same software have Easter eggs, and subsequent versions may not be compatible with the Easter eggs of older versions.

Easter Eggs (Easter Eggs) are actually hidden contents on some DVDs. These contents cannot be seen in the normal menu, and some special methods must be used to select them.

The content of Easter eggs includes some production behind-the-scenes, deleted scenes, funny scenes, trailers, etc.

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(1) Easter eggs in word

A. Start "WORD 2000";

B. Press the "F1" key or click the "Help" menu and select "Show Office Assistant";

C. Enter "Cast" in the text box below "What do you want to do?";