Then came the Christmas holidays. That's just fun!.
Wondering windy s youth,.
Which did not wish.
Before a further life.
Lies bright, neobrozima;.
Wondering through the lens of old age.
In his coffin boards,.
All irretrievably lost;.
And anyway: hope they.
Lying baby talk.
A. On. Pushkin.
It has long been guessing for the Russian people were znachimymobryadom. At first they were part of pagan rites, and then postepennostali favorite pastime on the eve of great festivals. A large number were in narodnyhgadany tide, time of the mysterious and magical.
Boxing Day - a winter holiday, from Christmas Sochelnikado Epiphany ( January 6-19, new style), have been associated with unusual nashihpredkov time when the boundary between the earthly and the otherworldly miromoslabevaet. It was believed that after the Christmas nebesnyevrata swing open, and the bored devil down to earth, free razgulivaetsredi people and is capable of mischief until the Epiphany. Greatly angers ito evil that day, early in the year starts to add - as they say, ... Especially opasnoyschitalas the second week of Christmas time - the so -called ...
General information about Christmas time.
Never Russian family life does not live in that expanse, like at Christmas. Here, all ages take part in the merriment, the floor osobennozhensky. Young people are among the games and fun choice for a constriction of starikirasskazyvayut old, old woman confirmed by various experiments dostovernostgadany. And all this takes place in the evenings, in the complete collection of many families. Women pozyvatki bypass the house with an invitation, where there are girls in semeystvozazhitochnoe, where the cherished darling child, maiden beauty, zaznobamolodecheskaya.
The whole importance of the Christmas parties is in dark, passed down from generation to generation. To find the original appearance of these gadaniynet no way. Tradition of our ancestors, both written and verbal, nichegone talk about it. It would be very unfair if we attributed the non-Christian ihsuschestvovanie time of the Russian people, as hitherto spredmetami do not fully explainable. We will stay for one agree that svyatochnyegadaniya usvoivalis Russian life in the course of many centuries, with postoyannomili time of our ancestors intercourse with neighboring nations. If bylavozmozhnost carefully follow the individual believed to border locations vraznyh centuries, and then monitor their spread to the inner cities, while bymy up to signify: which country from which the city of kakogonaroda joined us superstitious believe, where they were taken, where . The idea hardly executable as soon as possible in svoemosuschestvlenii, but how likely it stems from ancient oriental bytiyamifov real life, so rarely experience their periods stolyavno passed from one nation to another.
Yule divination, hitherto committed in the Russian semeynoyzhizni are made in the evening, from December 25 to January 5, and that in raznoevremya. So one perpetrated in the evening, the other at midnight, while others sleep prigotovlyayutsyako.
Evening divination usually starts from the moment the fire light up the room kakskoro. Some of them are listed below.
The value of the Christmas holidays at Russian.
Ancient Christians sanctified all solemn cases prazdnikiblagochestivymi. Sovereigns liberated people, with P. A. From various debts, reduce taxes, released criminals from prisons, etc.. Pastors nastavlyalilyudey holy feasts of the LORD pleasing offerings. Christians revnostnovypolnyali good suggestion mentors, making for the benefit of suffering chelovechestvaposilnye alms, which the Church sanctified divine blessings. Etidni, marked by soul-saving deeds, reputed holy Christmas-tide, or, as people put them in their fun.
Christmas time, stemming from the verb ...
At what time of yuletide appeared in Russia? . Oral stories of ancient times, a hundred years neprevyshayut. Christmas time, of course, became famous for vvedeniihristianskoy faith in Russia, but neither of them Nestor, nor his successors letopisine mentioned. Searching through many of the Russian chronicles, I have not seen the name svyatokranee XVII century, the story is about this subject completely silent. Letopistsynashi, describing the events of the civil and religious, did not care about life - bytenashih ancestors, and the old customs have disappeared along with the legends. Now sobirayutpredaniya, and how hard it is! . Although initially regarded as a new year with the month of March, with dnyaBlagovescheniya, after months of September, in velikoknyazhenie Simeon the Proud inakonets ( when Peter B [ eliky ] introduced a common European system of chronology ) with genvaryamesyatsa 1700. : But this did not alter the chronology of the Christmas days, they had to celebrate in the same time as it is now. But for all the effort, the question of the positive appearance of Yuletide is impossible poprichine lack of evidence.
Our forefathers, without doubt, the celebrated yuletide otherwise nezhelizhivshie after them, and rather than celebrate ourselves. Time changes a lot in life. The most fun and games are not the same ancestors, which now. Rather it would be helpful if you could provide a picture - plaguing bytya bygone centuries in neyby we saw the history of our nation. Now some of the old time people uteshayutnas stories about the past, and nurse their artless tales amuse Otomi as clover fun our grandparents, and sing songs about the past of odnomuiskazhennomu hearing.
The celebration of Christmas time.
Yule begins in Russia with the Nativity of Christ iprodolzhayutsya to Epiphany Eve. With the addition of Little Russia, half of XVII century. , Little Russians, little by little began to borrow from the Russian rites nekotoryesvyatochnye.
Christmas time actually make fun time. We never see that yuletide celebrated with such unaccountable gaiety, as between the Russian. Many Slavic writers have left us a wonderful selections of chastidrevnosti, did not report on the Christmas time.
The subject of the Christmas fun.
The subject of the Christmas fun is very diverse: it vyrazhaetnarodnoe fun and family life in dark and pereryazhivanii, kotoryesovershayutsya night, and night at this time are both intentionally dark, probing the participants in the Christmas awful Games.
Kolyada.
At Christmas-tide period, held Kolyada, yazycheskiyobryad old, accompanied by a circuit of houses with songs and greetings. In drevnihslavyan it was the Sun folk festival, the birthday of the solar year. Vnoch on Kalyada lit bonfires around which danced, rolled down the hill goryascheekoleso. Young people, dressed in new shirts to avoid crop failure, sobiralasv house, where dancing and listening to stories.
Carol did not get along without maskers. In the evening, and went home nochyupo mummers - carols. They sang songs kolyadnye, vyskazyvalihozyaevam good wishes and prosperity in the coming year, for which he received obryadovuyuedu and gifts.
The Orthodox Church has actively fought with such ostatkamiyazychestva through direct prohibitions, an organization of their holiday services, atakzhe Christian reinterpretation of the traditional folk rituals.
Yule divination.
Gathered together in one house, the girls take to the streets: here each of them should ask about the name of the first who met eycheloveka. They believe that this name will be called their restrictions. This is samoeoklikanie the New Year, when the girls come to the crossroads spirogom.
There are a window to hear other people's homes and listening to razgovoruveselomu or boring, predict a same life in marriage.
Walk in the dark in the wood shed, take the log out and then in quarters polennitsyi look, if it is smooth, the first will be a good husband, and if komupopadetsya knotted, especially with cracks, it will be bad and angry.
Is removed from the stables of horses through the shaft. If the shaft kotorayazatsepit feet, then her husband will be angry, but if the jump through it, tomuzhe be quiet and peaceable.
Suitable for barns, if they hear pouring bread, uveryayutsebya that their married life will be sufficient.
Listen to a church lock, if overheard singing - ...
Removed from the roost of chickens and bring in that upper room, where traneeprigotovleno in three areas: water, bread, rings yulotye, silver, copper. Eslichya chicken will thread the water, the husband is a drunkard, and if there will be bread, muzhbudet poor, and if gold will ring, then the husband will be rich, and if the silver, the husband is neither rich nor poor, but if the copper will move from the place, the .
Translated into balyasy stairs, saying, ...
Go to the fence and say, ' room, the room, sobachenka, hall, gray top ... In which side she heard barking in the married life storonebudet. If the barking is heard near the house, it shows chtootdadut married is not the far side, but if the bark is soft, barely audible, tobudet married to someone else's side.
Throw shoes through the gate into the street, then go and look yourself naulitsu: in which direction it faces the toe, there is to be married. Hudoypriznak for a girl when her shoe is the call to the home goal: vetot year, not to be married to her.
Go look in the windows of neighbors' dinner. If zametyatsidyaschih at the table with their heads, then a herald that future home budutzhivy all, but if they see no goals, then think that they would soon all die.
After the song podblyudnyh tolerate water in the yard, and each izdevushek, molding some of the water under Vereya, takes a handful of snow. Coming GFCF, look: the color of snow, this is the will and the betrothed.
Midnight divination always begin after dinner, with 12 chasanochi. They involve older girls, in the presence of experienced old women. Calculate these fortune-telling.
Fortune-teller girls sit by the windows, each pronouncing: ... If you hear a train to cry, ssvistom, it predicts a life of fun and good, and when the train is quiet, it predicts a married life of poverty.
Hang the window keys, brush. Which of the passing ihposhevelit, asked him: ...
Take walnut shells, cut wax candles namalenkie pieces inserted into the shell, allowed to float in a cup, napolnennuyuvodoyu. Then each girl lights a candle of his shell. Here, note: that sink, it shall die unmarried, which has more candles burn, that prezhdevseh marry, and whose will burn longer than all of that is not to be married.
Desperate girl covers in an empty room table cloth, puts the device, except for a knife and fork, and said: ... All around the rooms overlook the neighbors, and she was left alone, lock the doors, windows, sits at the table with the expectation of future husband. Priznakipriblizheniya betrothed are as follows: the wind hums beneath the windows, whistling, blows the window in the door, stinking smell. Then he is betrothed. A girl should sidetna its place, to remain silent on all matters to notice facial features and dress. Suzhenyysaditsya the table, begins to speak. The girl asked instead of answering: ... This migdevushka should say: ... If it is not srobeet zachuraet, tosuzheny produces different leprosy.
The girls go out into the yard, take the edge of the tablecloth, starushkavsypaet snow. Shaking the cloth, saying: ... Room, the room, sobachenka; doznay, doznay, betrothed! ... Hoarse barking of her spouse means an old man, clear, young, fat - widower.
Make the evening of the wax flock of swans on the number of girls. Dye rouge winch, and a swan is white. Gadalschitsy dlyasebya choose a swan with a winch, dipped in a cup with water and covered with a handkerchief. Temvremenem before going to bed, looking like a swan swims with a winch? .
The most desperate and older girls are on a moonlit night in the hole to listen to Narek. Nurse stelyut cowhide. The girls sit down to watch the water listeners. Which will be released this year, get married, she sees her boyfriend entered, exactly in the costume in which he had come to the agreement, which is sitting vdevkah, she only hears a knock out of the water.
Pour a glass of water in the evening, lower ring and cold vystavlyayutna. Before going to sleep nurse brought a glass and watch how many bumps, so many sons born, and how many holes, so many daughters.
Nurse in the evening obsevayut ash shoes and hide podkrovati, though hidden from the girls, while each advance dogovarivaetsyaob this. The girls get up and look: on whose shoes will be more ash tempredrekaetsya great wealth.
Take in the evening, in darkness, with a tow yarn, backcomb nagreben and drained out of the window. Before going to bed watching: what kind of hair on the ridge, and her spouse takiebudut.
Divination by dream girls are committed on the orders of old women and, to a greater reality, the people by extraneous.
Gather sticks from the bridge, put under the pillow. The girl, going to bed, saying, ... Promised is a dream and carries the hand through the bridge.
Put a comb under the pillow, saying, ... Promised is a dream, and scratching his head.
Take a thimble of salt, a thimble of water, mix and eat. Going to bed, she says, ... Promised is a dream and delivers drinking.
Put a pillow under the four kings, saying, ... Promised a dream in a dream because of some king.
Christmas time are a strange mixture of pagan rituals skhristianskimi traditions. It is clear that divination comes from paganism, games, clothes, having nothing to do with the Christian aims and mood. Actually, as the ' slavlenie ', that is, walking children, and sometimes ivzroslyh with a star, a den, and similar items. But in the word -' yuletide ' - hidden value the sanctity of the days that proizoshlostol joyous event for Christians. In Russia, Christmas holidays were celebrated by all, but mostly young bylovremya. For amusing and fun games boys and girls advance gotovilimaski animals and birds, clownish attire. In masked with jokes, quips obhodilidoma, performed Cheering, folk songs. The main purpose of caroling, the wish for happiness, prosperity and good harvest. In Russian carols, usually meant for the whole family as a whole. Each owner in turn schedroodarivala guests, treating baked dough figures of birds and animals, candy and other sweets, showing mercy to the guests.
Invisible presence of spirits among the living provided by the popular views, a glimpse into the future, and this forms obyasnyayutsyamnogochislennye Christmas divination.
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