Editing Serbs (section)

===Traditions and customs===
{{Main article|Serb traditions|Serbian traditional clothing}}
[[File:Sveti Jovan.jpg|thumb|right|[[Slava (tradition)|Slava]], a family feast in honor of its patron saint.]]

Traditional clothing varies due to diverse geography and climate of the territory inhabited by the Serbs. The traditional footwear, ''[[opanak|opanci]]'', is worn throughout the Balkans.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mirjana Prošić-Dvornić|title=Narodna nošnja Šumadije|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZwKAQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Kulturno-Prosvjetni Sabor Hrvatske|page=62|isbn=9788680825526|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102074805/https://books.google.com/books?id=TZwKAQAAIAAJ|archive-date=2 January 2016}}</ref> The most common [[Serbian national costume|folk costume of Serbia]] is that of [[Šumadija]], a region in central Serbia,<ref name=SLC>{{cite book|author1=Dragoljub Zamurović|author2=Ilja Slani|author3=Madge Phillips-Tomašević|title=Serbia: life and customs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXAMAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=ULUPUDS|page=194|isbn=9788682893059|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102074805/https://books.google.com/books?id=wXAMAQAAMAAJ|archive-date=2 January 2016}}</ref> which includes the national hat, the [[Šajkača]].<ref>{{cite book  | last = Deliso  | first = Christopher | year = 2009 | title = Culture and Customs of Serbia and Montenegro  | url = https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsse00deli  | url-access = limited  | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group  | location = [[Westport, Connecticut]]  | isbn = 978-0-313-34436-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsse00deli/page/n113 97]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Resić | first1 = Sanimir | last2 = Plewa | first2 = Barbara Törnquist | year = 2002 | title = The Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe | publisher = Nordic Academic Press | location = [[Lund, Sweden]] | isbn = 978-91-89116-38-2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FS9pAAAAMAAJ | page = 48 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160102074805/https://books.google.com/books?id=FS9pAAAAMAAJ | archive-date = 2 January 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> Older villagers still wear their traditional costumes.<ref name=SLC/> The traditional dance is the [[circle dance]], called ''[[kolo (dance)|kolo]]''. [[Zmijanje embroidery]] is a specific technique of embroidery practised by the women of villages in area Zmijanje on mountain [[Manjača]] and as such is a part of the [[UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists|UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity]]. [[Pirot carpet]] is a variety of flat tapestry woven rug traditionally produced in [[Pirot]], a town in southeastern Serbia.

''[[Slava (tradition)|Slava]]'' is the family's annual ceremony and veneration of their patron saint, a social event in which the family is together at the house of the patriarch. The tradition is an important ethnic marker of Serb identity.<ref name=EB70>{{cite book|title=Ethnologia Balkanica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ebpDLhkVWcC&pg=PA70|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|pages=70–|id=GGKEY:ES2RY3RRUDS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102074805/https://books.google.com/books?id=-ebpDLhkVWcC&pg=PA70|archive-date=2 January 2016}}</ref> Serbs usually regard the Slava as their most significant and most solemn [[feast day]].<ref name="Celia Jaes Falicov 1991 219"/>
Serbs have [[Serbian Christmas traditions|their own customs regarding Christmas]], which includes the sacral tree, the ''[[Badnjak (Serbian)|badnjak]]'', a young [[oak]]. On Orthodox [[Easter]], Serbs have the tradition of [[Egg decorating in Slavic culture|Slavic Egg decorating]]. [[Čuvari Hristovog groba]] is a religious/cultural practice of guarding a representation of [[Jesus|Christ]]'s grave on [[Good Friday]] in the [[Church of St. Nicholas, Vrlika|Church of St. Nicholas]] by the [[Serbian Orthodox Church|Serbian Orthodox]] inhabitants in the town of [[Vrlika]].<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of Serbia|title=Riznica – Čuvari Hristovog groba|url=http://www.rts.rs/page/radio/sr/story/24/radio-beograd-2/1498917/riznica--cuvari-hristovog-groba.html|access-date=2021-01-13|website=www.rts.rs|archive-date=15 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215145839/http://www.rts.rs/page/radio/sr/story/24/radio-beograd-2/1498917/riznica--cuvari-hristovog-groba.html|url-status=live}}</ref>