March 20, 2019 in the state educational INSTITUTION “Bulgarian boarding school for children with disabilities” for students of grades 5 and 7 employees of the Department of excursions BGIAMZ Rogacheva M. N., Sabirzyanova L. I., Salimova G. I. held a cultural and entertaining event “Farewell to winter (day of the vernal equinox)” in order to awaken in children’s interest in folklore, to the rich world of human emotions associated with the old traditional way of life in Russia.
If Maslenitsa is a holiday of seeing off the winter, the beginning of the first spring holidays was a meeting of spring, celebrated on different dates of March (from 1 to 25, i.e. from the day of Eudoxia to the Annunciation), depending on its arrival in certain regions of Russia. It is possible that once spring meeting was a complex, holistic ritual, but in the NINETEENTH century left of it, in fact, only “zaklinanie” spring with help of special songs-zaliczek (“stoneflies”). More often they were performed on the day of the vernal equinox, when the day and night equals (March 22). On the eve of the holiday, all the Housewives baked figures of “larks” or “waders” from the dough, and in the morning distributed them to children who ran out into the street, shouting short “freckles”. Spring turned to lark, the Sandpiper, right to spring with a request to bring the “Bread of the free, summer is warm.”
During the event, students were presented with a colorful presentation that introduced them to the history of the celebration of the vernal equinox, with the traditions and customs accompanying this holiday in Russia. Students learned about the basic signs of the arrival of spring, on such terms as the “spring equinox”, “Soroca”, “larks”, “waders”, “zaliczka”. The children joined the traditions of Russian folklore, as well as in the old days touted the spring – shouted “zaklichki-vesnyanki”, with great interest collected Proverbs, guessed riddles about birds, gladly participated in ancient folk games. At the end of the event, the children were treated to traditional festive pastries – “larks”.

 
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