Romanian youth celebrate an old tradition on Orthodox Easter Romanian youngsters from the village of Vad, in the centre of the country, gather on the second day of Orthodox Easter to celebrate an annual tradition called "The Ploughman" ("Plugarul", in Romanian), meant to bring goof fortune for the crops in the coming agricultural season. According to the tradition, one of the young men from the village is covered in green wheat, lifted on a wooden platform by four other men an taken from his house to the river, where he jumps in the water. People from all around the village, but also tourists, form a convoy and accompany them to the river. This year, "the ploughman" and his young friends also went to a plain field nearby and ploughed the ground as they used to do many years ago, before the agricultural work was changed by the technological progress. IMAGES