Signs for the day, for the year of the wedding. Signs of the weather at the wedding

What brings the newlyweds a leap year, the month of May and rain at the end of the wedding day read the article.

Wedding in Russian culture from time immemorial was a key event in the life of every person. It was accompanied by special rituals, which were taken very seriously.

All Russian brides passed through a long string of various rites and none of them could be neglected. Until now, the wedding celebration is accompanied by a certain number of traditional actions, on which the existing and still wedding signs and superstitions are based. It's about them that we'll talk about in this article.

Wedding signs in a leap year

Amazing fact. Adjective "leap" is used in combination with only one noun - "year".

Another amazing fact. The Christian church does not have any restrictions regarding the conclusion of marriages in a leap year. And all the terrible stories passed from mouth to mouth, condemns and, as far as possible, refutes, counting pagan superstitions.

Why do not we like a leap year so much? And why to combine marriage this year is not considered the best idea?

Here is how a leap year is described in an ancient chronicle:

Who is to blame for this?

on February 29th are honored:

• in Christianity - the most unloved Saint Kasyan the Unfavorable( Krivoi Kasyan)
• in paganism - the most terrible and evil god of the Slavic pantheon - Kashchei( Chernobog)

Our lean ancestors talked about leap years and Kasyan:

• Hood litter in leapyear
• Kasyan all oblique mow
• Beware of Kasyanov's eyes and a trumpet's voice
• Kasyan's name-day is fortunately mentioned

It's no surprise that with this attitude to the disgraced saint the whole year is considered extremely unfortunate, especially for anyand. And since the wedding - a very important event for the future family tried not to celebrate in Kasyanov year.

If the marriage was still inevitable, then there was a conspiracy in the reserve that was to protect the young from the crooked Kasyanov's eyes. In the church before the wedding ceremony, the young should have pronounced the phrase: "I crowned with a crown, and not a leap"

In addition, in a leap year it was not customary to arrange lush wedding parties.

Wedding signs by the month

Amazingly persistent dislike of the Russian wedding tradition by the month of May. Everyone, at least once in his life, heard the phrase: "In May, get married( born) - all my life to suffer."But the May wedding sign has a very practical explanation.

Historical fact. The appearance of the word "May" in Russian is due to the Julian calendar. Original Russian name of this month is a herbalist, a flower.

The last month of spring was the month of active agricultural work. It was about this month that they said: "The year is feeding."By May, the cattle that had been depleted during the winter had not yet had time to work up the meat in the green meadows, and the barns of the people were routinely devastated.

Traditional Russian wedding was played a week. At the celebration all relatives gathered. So the whole family, walking at the wedding, wasted time for sowing and will be interrupted - to suffer - all winter on scant reserves only because of the unsuccessfully chosen time for the celebration.

Important: The Orthodox calendar considers May 22 - the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker's memory - one of the most successful dates for the wedding ritual.

Wedding signs for the holidays

Among other special dates for the wedding ceremony:

• On July 21 and November 4 - the celebration of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God
• October 26 - the celebration of the icon of the Iberian Mother of God

Wedding at the Epiphany signs

Immediately on Epiphany, January 19,.Girls in their finest clothes gathered around the Jordan( hole) or on the square and stood out in a row, and young unmarried men chose among them a future wife.

At the same time most often there were future mothers who could afford not only a good look at the girl who liked the girl, but also touch her hands, checking the hot blood of the future daughter-in-law, check the quality and novelty of the outfit.

The second day after Epiphany opened the most wedding period in the year - a winter wedding or a wedding. It lasted until the Maslenaya week and was considered the most successful for the beginning of married life.

Wedding on Pancake Day signs of

The Orthodox calendar does not welcome the conclusion of marriages during Syroditsa( Cheese Week).The main explanation - this week involves preparing for a multi-day Easter post, the beginning of purification.

Interesting fact. The word "marriage" comes from the Slavic word "brachy", which means "feast."

Preparation for the post and the post itself imply a refusal not only from fast food and visits to entertainments, but also from marital relations. In addition, given the pagan nature of Maslenitsa, the Orthodox said that this week walks only famously.

At the same time, during the Komodetitsa, which became the Slavic prototype of the modern Maslenitsa, it was customary to play weddings, because such unions were blessed by Veles himself - the god of fertility and good luck. And the most successful were the marriages concluded on the day of the solar equinox - March 21-22.On this day the Slavs celebrated the young Yarilo.

Wedding on the Red Hill

Krasnaya Gorka is another holiday in the Orthodox calendar, having pagan roots. Before the baptism of Rus in the twentieth of April, the second day of Yarilin was celebrated. Only now Yarilo was violent, that is, mature, filled with juices of life.

The name of the holiday is easy to explain: it was the small hills - the slides - that dried up first under the rays of the gentle sun and could not be better suited for youth festivities. A "red" slide because it is beautiful in the fresh spring greens. The red color of the Slavs was a symbol of beauty.

In the Orthodox calendar, Krasnaya Gorka coincides with Fomin's day, finishing the Easter week and opening a spring-summer wedding. This wedding was going on until the Trinity. For this period, always had the largest number of weddings.

As a rule, on the Red Hill were married couples, sucked in the Maslenu week.

Wedding on Red Hill signs

The main sign of the wedding on Red Hill is expressed by the folk saying: "Who will marry Krasnaya Gorka - that age will not get married!"

Signs of weather at the wedding of

Our ancestors lived in close unity with nature, learned to feel all of its changes, foresaw the future of natural phenomena occurring during the landmark events in their lives.

The rain for the wedding is a very good sign. As the seed germinates, thrown into the ground and irrigated by rain, so the wedding celebration will end with the birth of a new life. In addition, the rain at the end of the wedding day is able to wash away all the bad energy and future troubles.

What can not be said about the storm with thunder and lightning. This weather was a harbinger of uneasy relations in a young family.

Strong wind, naturally, promised windblownness in the relations of the newlyweds, possible changes and, accordingly, quarrels. The sun is joy and prosperity. Fog - an uncertain future, in which there is nothing: neither bad nor good.

Snow promised fidelity and honesty, and a strong unexpected frost is the early birth of the firstborn boy.

Wedding signs are our century heritage. And to believe in them or not is a personal matter for everyone.

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