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Hard-boiled eggs dyed all of the colors of the rainbow, eggs made of chocolate and other confections, plastic eggs filled with candy or tiny prizes, pysanki (eggs decorated in the Ukrainian fashion), painted wooden eggs, beaded eggs, porcelain eggs, jeweled eggs by Faberge at Easter, eggs of every imaginable material and style appear at Easter.
As a source of new life, the egg has been a symbol of creation, spring, and fertility in many cultures and religions. The ancient Persians exchanged eggs at the spring equinox, Romans gave red-painted eggs as gifts at the new year, and to this day an egg is one of the symbolic foods on the plate at the Passover Seder which celebrates the new life of the people of Israel when they were redeemed from slavery in Egypt.