Signs of spring. What did our great-grandfathers believe in?

Spring is an amazing time when everything comes to life after hibernation, when the winter depression goes away , everything blossoms around, and the smile itself appears on the face. Probably, that is why for a long time in Russia this time of the year is so fond. Description of the spring for each writer and poet, but each is permeated with life, love, ease. Yes, and how else? After all, the sun shines brightly and brightly, the spring drizzle rang and rang, in the puddles of melted snow sparkled, the blue sky smiled. The rivers are already ready to free themselves from the icy captivity and to make noise, to run about their business. And how pleasing the eye is the gentle light green leaves on the trees, a velvet carpet of lush grass underfoot. And I want to run on it barefoot!

Signs of great-grandfathers

The signs of spring occupy a huge stratum in folk art, no other months attract so much attention to themselves as March, April and May. And it all begins on February 15, at Sretenie. According to popular beliefs, it is on this day that winter meets with spring, and it depends on who wins, whether the weather will be happy. People's signs of spring say that it is after this day that nature begins to awaken. And they meet spring in a month, on the day of Evdokha, on March 14. Women baked "larks", and the children called the young season with them.

Ancient beliefs advised on this day to bury a pot of porridge to feed the earth, cajole it for obtaining an abundant harvest in the future. In general, with the fertility of the earth, with the productivity of the year, many signs of spring are associated. So, the yield of the coming year was judged on a large spill, on the completely descended ice on the rivers. This foreshadowed the bounty of nature. Especially fruitful was the year when the spring came late. Such a large number of signs associated with the crop is due to the fact that our ancestors lived off the fertile land. Therefore, they guessed at any natural phenomenon. Including in the spring thunderstorms. Thunder from the south or east foreshadowed a good year, and in the west - unfavorable. Lightning without thunder threatened a drought. A bad harvest was predicted even with too early thunderstorms, when the trees had not yet covered with foliage.

The hydrometeorological center at that time was not yet, and therefore the weather was predicted from the behavior of animals. Many similar signs of spring are fully justified and have a scientific explanation. For example, a rapid rain was determined by the croaking of frogs. They very sensitively perceive the slightest changes in the atmosphere and before the rain they croak a lot, but not sonically, as in dry weather, but hoarse. Precursors of the rain were also spiders, if they went out hunting in the morning. The thing is that during damp they are not shown, and before the rain there is no dew on the grass, and spiders can come out.

Signs of our time

Of course, in our time people's perceptions have lost their original meaning. We can find out the weather forecast for a month ahead, the scientific development allows to increase the yield. But still the modern world has its own signs of spring. True, already humorous. In them, the arrival of this time of the year is announced by the appearance on the streets of people in winter hats and sunglasses, the presentation of gifts from seemingly indifferent people, an unexpected attention to the opposite sex. This direction is not accidental. Indeed, in our time, the spring is no longer associated with the sowing of fields, but with the advent of love.