15:30 07.02.2011
Bulgaria is preparing for the holidays
In coming weeks, residents and guests of Bulgaria expects a whole series of events. The first of these will take place next week: February 14, the country will mark one of the most favorite holidays of rural growers Tryphon killed. It is believed that after the arrival of spring. On this day, farmers pruned vines to get rich in the autumn grape harvest. Hence the name: "Slaughtered", which means "clipped." The holiday dates back to Thracian times, when the territory of ancient Bulgaria was distributed cult of the god Vinod Dionysus. With Dionysus prihodom Christianity replaced holiness Trifon, hristianskiy svyashtennik through Nickel, then kazni kotorogo in 250 years of plague vinogradniki insects, and growers have been asking saint to protect them from this scourge.
At sunrise on February 14 the Bulgarian housewives cook stuffed chicken. Collect husbands bag with a bottle of house wine, bread and onions. After that, men with a priest at the head sent to the vineyards, where, after prayer cut with three large vines three twig and plant roots watered wine. Of cut twigs plaited wreath and crowned him "King of growers." Now King often becomes the owner of the largest vineyard owner or vinarni (winery). Then everyone gathers for a common banquet table and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate ... and so on three consecutive days.
With the development of wine tourism in Bulgaria for almost every vinarne of hotel and restaurant where in a pleasant atmosphere you can meet the holiday and just to taste the excellent Bulgarian wines that are truly excellent and have nothing to do with what passes for Bulgarian wine in Russian supermarkets.
A March 1 Bulgaria will Baba Marta. Baba Marta - martenitsi, gadalushka, kichilka - Bulgarian spring festival which is celebrated every year on the first day of spring calendar. The symbol of the holiday is martenichka - Lace of interwoven red and white threads. A similar celebration is, in modern Romania and Moldova, it is called "martsishor, but there martenichki are only women while in Bulgaria they have literally everything, including fruit trees and domestic animals.
Colors martenichek have a specific meaning: red - it is blood and lives, white - purity and happiness. Martenichki not removed until the first flowers on the trees or the first migratory birds. Then remove martenichki and put under a stone. On the ninth day of stone turned. If the ants beneath you can expect a rich harvest of grain and the offspring of cows and sheep. If a stone appeared Worms - a lot of foals born. And you can not put martenichku under a stone, and tied to a rose bush and make a wish. It will come true. A more considered that happiness brings donated martenichka, so it is common tradition to give these shnurochki their relatives and friends, and even unfamiliar people.
On the first Saturday of Lent, which in 2011 falls on March 12, celebrated Todorovden - Day of St. Theodore. This Day in Bulgaria is also called Tudoritsa or Horse Easter. The holiday originated in Bulgaria in the early Middle Ages, and combines the cult of saints and Fedor Fedor Stratelates Tyrone. It's a real horse holiday, the pets enjoy the country's special love, they are almost in every sector. In the foothills of the Balkans, in the Rhodope Mountains, in villages and small towns clean, decorated with ribbons and tassels horses are at the village stadium or football field, where competitions are held. Interesting to see to the races, but the most entertaining, no doubt, are the competition dray. The owner of the winning horse goes home with a trophy and a fair supply of hay, or with a new harness.
On that day housewives bake bread in the shape of a horse or a horse shoe and decorate it nucleoli nuts, cloves of garlic on the table is bound to be soup with mushrooms or lentils.
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