The wedding with a Russian bride: customs, prejudices and others
The mankind consisting of great variety of cultures, civilizations, tribes, peoples, nationalities, races, has developed incalculable quantity of wedding ceremonies. They cannot be generalized and systematized, they are transformed, vary in time.
New ceremonies replaced the previous ones. And all of them - reflection of human spirit and outlook.
In the general system of traditional ceremonialism at Russian the representations connected both with a human body as a whole, and with its separate parts, play an appreciable role. Separate aspects of these representations constantly get in sight the scientists studying the various sides of traditional spiritual culture of Russian people, however their special research in a modern ethnographic science while is not present. Therefore attempt to allocate and consider representation Russian about a human body and its parts, and as to look after a role of manipulations with a body in various kinds of ceremonialism is enough interesting.
The following manipulations are very interesting: in a Russian village of Omsk area young after wedding deserted old footwear and when they entered into the house of the father - in - law him under legs laid an embroidered towel. At Cossacks of Northern Kazakhstan the custom was widely distributed - to strew a poppy in footwear young, for their protection from damage on wedding. Besides a poppy strewed in pockets. One of the major purposes of these ceremonies was maintenance of well-being and fruitfulness of a marriage.
With wedding ceremonialism are inextricably related a various sort of superstition - prejudices by virtue of which much of an event is represented by display of supernatural forces, by an omen of the future. By today at all peoples their huge amount has collected.
Except for the direct purpose - to authorize fulfillment of a marriage, wedding marks itself a holiday with all its features. Wedding festival in all its variety is included into each culture.
Since the first centuries of an annalistic history of the old Russian state elements of wedding ceremonialism, in particular, courtship and engagement are known. Engagement was made in the house of a Russian bride. The Russian bride was considered holding after a meal with cutting cheese then to the groom of a way back was not. If for any reasons the groom refused, it was regarded as the insult of honor of the bride, for what the groom carried punishment - paid the large penalty.
Church rules supposed the conclusion of a marriage no more than three times. Already second marriage was considered sinful for a Russian bride.
In a basis of the country matrimonial union economic interest laid first of all. Such feeling as love, it was seldom taken into consideration. National tradition as then and the serfdom did not provide the mutual consent of the young man and the Russian bride to marriage.
Wedding was carried out on a church ceremony, but also national signs were connected to it. So, when the groom and the bride put in church on bottom - a little carpet everyone tried to step on it, the first that in family to hold top. Also looked, at whom the candle will go out earlier. Trusted, that at that and life will be shorter.
Wedding visitors approached and congratulated the young couple. At an exit from church the matchmaker showered newly married with seeds of flax and hemp, wishing good luck happiness.
The three - the sacred number constantly present in Russian folklore. That is why and wedding, as a rule, last three days. For the third day in the house of the groom and in the house of the bride there were close relatives, and wedding proceeded in a family circle. Then for young daily everyday lives began.
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