Масленица в Беларуси (Shrovetide)

pleases kids and adults. Games, songs, dances, laughter and noise

- its main signs. And it's called - Mardi Gras. However, in some regions of Belarus, this holiday is called differently: Oiler, Sarnitsa etc.

when Mardi Gras was celebrated - on the table from

the peasants appeared dairy products in very large quantities, since cows have time to calve. Meat on a holiday week there were forbidden, so these foods and became chief.

dates on the calendar, he never had: it started to

celebrate the eight weeks before Easter. According to one theory, our ancestors began to celebrate this festival to honor the god Vales, who patronized pet. Butter and cheese - that's mandatory attributes of a holiday. On Shrovetide pancakes acquired a truly royal importance. Melted butter, sour cream, honey, jam, fish, eggs, cabbage - each wrapped in pancakes all that his darling please.

rites. Our ancestors believed that the work day on the

Pancake week is possible, but in the evening - just for fun. At this time all went to visit in the villages organized sports, youth sledding, swings, horse riding.

costumes and tumble into someone's house. If the hosts were

slow with refreshments, then began clownish ruin houses - throw around things rearranged items. Each person encountered on the street a company topple in the snow with snow and rubbed his cheeks and nose.

holiday is still bright, noisy and cheerful. The celebration of

Shrovetide encourages wake up after hibernation ready for a new spring, and thus a new life.