Ethnography and folklore   

Those enabling the knowledge of the ethnographic phenomenon are the Romanian peasants, creators of the culture and its continuer.
They are the ones who continue to wear the popular costumes, to keep the customs and traditions, they make the objects that enter the area of the popular values and creations.
The range of the ethnographic aspects which should draw the tourist attention is wide: from the large structure of the place, type of households, specific architecture details and inside arrangements, to the work tools used in the occupations specific to the place, to the popular costumes, customs and traditions. Often, these ethnographic values are interesting just for the fact that they can be seen and known right in the nearby of their creators or directly from the same. Each ethnographic region has its representative characteristics as for the life, culture and civilization of the inhabitants.

Thus, Tara Motilor (Bihor region inhabitants), well known due to its peasant craftsmen specialized in wood, iron or clay working, or the Banat region, whose inhabitants excel, in the ethnographic field, in home made fabrics of an impressive variety - are only two examples of popular culture born in various parts of our country.
The popular art creations in woods - the distaffs, spindles, shepherd sticks, mallets used to "beat" the laundry while washing, the spindles created in Hunedoara area, the furniture pieces made in Valcea county or the dowry cases from Banat region, the black woolen mantles specific to Avrig village, the inside decoration fabrics specific to Orastie area, the breastplates, sheepskin coats and girdles from Fagaras or Rasinari, or the glass icons and the painted eggs are the expression of a certain civilization.

From the Danube Delta, where the villages continue to keep not only the Lippovan custom of preparing the fish borsch, and the interesting fishing tools and techniques but also the small houses with reed roofs, and up to the North of Moldova with the specific hearth ovens built in the peasant yards or the farming and craftsman tools specific to the place, and, further, from the wood painting, the artistic skin dressing and the Calusari dance specific to Oltenia, to the houses with verandah and upper floor, or the sheepfolds in Muntenia, the Romanian people conserves its language and costumes, destinies and traditions, its spiritual integrity - in one word, it keeps its individuality.

The Romanian popular costumes adorned with specific textures, seams and colors, the wall carpets woven with rose or peony motifs, whose chromatic is based on "secrets" known only by the peasants, the wood laces and the glaze covering the wide variety of clay pottery, the unwritten theater, the dances, popular poetry, customs and traditions are charming, full of meaning messengers of the Tracian-Dacian-Roman culture.

The folklore fully reflects the historic events, thus, the Romanian peasant songs have been, for ages, a mirror of its soul, of its life filled with joy or sorrow.
In the doina (a specific lyric song) they used to sing the woods, their nostalgia, sorrow, pity, hope, deception, wish for freedom.
The Romanian carols are as old as the doinas. They carry in their lines the confidence in doing good deeds, in the kindness and hospitality of the Romanian people.
The folklore is composed of an impressive number of songs, carols, good wishes all showing the popular philosophy of life.