Презентация по теме "Масленица"

• Monday is called "Meeting Day". It began at 12 am while housewives were making pancakes, children were building snow fortresses and snowmen. There were snowbattles, sledging down the hills, singing, dancing.

• Tuesday was “Attracting maids and guys` day(заигрыши). Girls organized singing and dancing in a ring. Young men organized fighting games.

• Wednesday was a “Gourmand Day” ( лакомка). The daintiest food on that day was pancakes, a symbol of health, long life and fortune.

• Thursday-Broad Maslenitsa(широкая масленица) was the top of the week. There were maskers, buffoons, merry-go-rounds, different games.

• Friday was a “Mother-in-law’s parties’ day(тёщины вечерки) . On this day only children were out of doors, sledging and playing snowballs. Grown-ups came out by the evening to visit the wives’ relatives.

• Saturday was a day of “Daughter-in-law’s sittings(Золовкины посиделки). The day was divided into 2 parts. The first part was for making snow and ice-fortresses. During the second part they went to see their husbands’relatives

• Sunday was the day of “Parting, Saying Good bye”(проводы, прощанье). Everyone went to their relatives to ask forgiveness (It was Forgiving Day).

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