Calendar-ritual excursions, entertainment

All the ceremonies of the autumn cycle were for our ancestors, directly or indirectly timed to the end of the harvest, and the philosophical ideas are old as the world: the calling of fertility fields, domestic animals, the continuation of the genus.

And again our corporate excursion and entertainment project "Merry Christmas" is changing its format. This year, an entertaining New Year's program will take place in the world famous resort "Berezovsky Mineral Waters", in a fairy fairy forest.

As part of the holiday Maslenitsa, the Valkovsky District Council decided to hold the festival "Valkovskaya Slivyanochka", because the fame of the Valkovsky plums comes from ancient times - not for nothing that these berries are depicted on the city's coat of arms! The festival is held to preserve and promote the cultural heritage, the development of tourism and gastronomic traditions of our region.

With the onset of cold weather, there was less work, so there was a relative calm: people often gathered together, arranged for the evening, guessed, spun, sang songs, played. The culmination of the whole calendar year was winter holidays - Christmas trees.

Along with the awakening of nature from winter sleep, the people began a cycle of spring festivities, accompanied by songs, games, dances. The spring calendar opened with a holiday of Meeting, the code of the winter met for the first time with the spring, 1 Marta on Evdokiya celebrated the New Year.

How will they meet Maslenitsa in one of the most beautiful, paradisiacal places of Slobozhanshchina - in Kovalevsky's estate, in Skovorodinovke? We are sure that it will not be boring! Are we going to Skovorodinovka?

Easter (in Ukrainian Velikden) is the most important Christian holiday, organically combining pagan rituals and church rites. Preparing for this holiday, our ancestors sang the scribes, beckoned birds and painted Easter eggs. We will try to do this.

Summer customs and rites of Ukrainians were, of course, associated primarily with concerns about the harvest. The oldest and most emotional holiday is the holiday of Ivan Kupala. Kupala Fire and Water had a healing, purifying, magical power.

One of the most beautiful, bright and joyful among the Ukrainians were the holidays of the summer ritual cycle. The summer cycle included Rusalia, Trinity, Ivan Kupala, Petrov Day, Makoveya, Panteleimon Healer, Spas, and ancient forgotten holidays - the gods Lada, Yarila, Grom.

How will Ivan Kupala celebrate in one of the most beautiful, paradisiacal places of Slobozhanshchina - in Kovalevsky's estate, in Skovorodinovka? We are sure that it will not be boring! Are we going to Skovorodinovka?

On the spring holidays it was customary to ride horses, go to visit, have fun, cook dumplings and, of course, pancakes, which symbolized the sun, the sun's warmth and power.

Maslenitsa is an ancient Slav festival, which we got from the pagan ancestors. Pancake week is a mischievous and cheerful farewell to the winter and a meeting of spring carrying a revival in nature and solar heat.