The life of the community is colorful due to the living customs and traditions. At Kezdialmas the border march is unavoidable part of the feast of Easter. According to the eldest this tradition was already kept in 1914. On early Easter Sunday morning the young men of the village come on the back of their horses to the church, the older men travel by carts. The oldest member of the group arranges the others in semi-circular format and asks for the priest’s blessing, to take it to the bordering lands. The horsemen take the flags of Mary and also the triple flag of the church, along with Hungarian national flags, they sing religious songs and they go up the Szent Mihaly mountain, where they meet the men from Lemheny. They go around the village, saying prayers and singing songs about resurrection.
When the messengers arrive to Hidegkut, they go around the stone crucifix three times in the name of the Holy Trinity, just as at the beginning when they go around the church three times. Then there is a little horserace, the winner of which gets a decorated bell and the horse gets a wreath on his neck. The marchers are lead by the bell towers the church on the Szent Mihaly mountain, where the Lemheny people are waiting for them.
Some other traditions are also connected to the spring time feast: the Easter sprinkling and the May tree. The beauty and majesty of Christmas is enhanced by the traditional nativity scene performed by the men of the village. The whipping of the girls by the boys is also traditional in January on the Day of the holy innocents. According to this tradition the girls who have been whipped on this day will give birth to healthy children. There are not only old, but new traditions too in this village. Since it became an independent village the village days had been organized three times, in the first week of August. Along with the locals there are the invited guests from the two sister villages from Hungary: Puspokszilagy and Szihalom.
An other reason to celebrate is the dynamic development of the village too, which is the result of hard work especially in the past few years. After the village became independent the local government of the village started great investment in order to make the village look nicer, to build infrastructure, to establish community offices, to enlarge and renovate the old buildings which were all high priorities for the village. At the moment they are working on the running water and waste water system of the village, which will have probably been finished by 2009. The leaders of the village, which stared its independent life only in 2004, do their best to raise the village to European standards. Since 2004 the Mayor’s Office has been functioning in this building under construction and so has the medical office too. The renovation and modernization work will be completed in 2008.
