With jokes and magical ritual, ozores accompanied the winter

Although people were joking that there was no time to leave this year, because the winters had not been there, however, the calendar did not change much about the annual festival - the approaching of Meteens and Moscow. However, traditions are and remain traditions - on March 1, ozores and guests gathered at THE Ozolaines People's House to symbolically spend winter and join in the celebration of Meteņi and Moscow festivals.
The festival of the winter of winter began with Lūznavas on the dance of the nance collective “Lūznava” dance, “rota, sunk ', rota!”, on the honour of the sun that approached the spring, shining more often, brighter and warming and joying us more. In the spring of spring, THE dance collective “I-dja” of THE cultural house OF Silmalas was continued with the performances “Solovuski”. In addition to the festival concert, the small and large festival celebrators were invited to take a real circle and arrows and participate in the competition “hit the pancake in the eye”, whose task was to hit the big pancakes in the burnt areas, or in the eye, trying to beat other participants with the highest number of hit hits. The youth club, “Ozo”, had also taken up his surprise at the event, anyone could come and create a special pancake, which was rooted BY Ozolaines symbol oak and a local name, or spring symbols - tulips and sun. Such pancakes brought pleasure not only to the stomach but also to the eyes.
Who knows more about the Forest traditions, if not the folklore's “Zealand”, so as a result of his scandalous greeting, all the festival visitors were delighted by the members of the “Zealand”, sending out the Meters' songs present, inviting the festival toys and sharing one other's smart advice.
In view of the fact that there has been very little snow tonight, the people present - how much are those who have built at least one snowman this year? Although the snowmen could actually be recorded in the red book this year, many had managed to use a few snowy days and take care of the joy of these childhood. But for those who had survived Snowman's rise, the surprise was a Silmalas CN dance collective “I-dya” with a charming snowy dance of a romantic music. On the other hand, the ancient dance collective “Lūznava” rushed to warm the guests with the toy “pancakes” before the present-present belly was filled with real pancakes and all had the strength to dance...
In both Latvian festivals and Russian festivals in Moscow, one of the traditions is to burn a straw figure, thus symbolically performing a kind of magical ritual, during which the sins in winter are burned, the bad thoughts, and the winter itself symbolically as if it is burned to come to spring with natural awakening, with new energy, strength and life. IN THE Ozolaines festival celebrations, the straw-doll burnt ritual was complemented by Silmalas CN dancers with “witch magic dance”, giving even more mysterious noises to the entire bad combustion process.
At the end of the event, all the attendants were invited to respect the traditional pancakes made by THE baskets of THE Ozolaines parish school, while the visitors of the event were respected BY THE grandmother of THE Senior Club of THE Ozolaines People's House. For a delicious tea tea, a boil on a fire, the folklore's “Zealand” was parked.
It is a pleasure that people have been able to look at anomalies in nature and make the grey season happier with their jokes. This winter is indeed in the history of meteorological observations as one of the warmest, and the anecdotes were at the centre of the attention that year. People joked both on their own and on radio, TV, Internet portals did not save humor. The anecdotes were that the winter of that year could be called “autumn”, thinking that winter months had elapsed in a sort of autumn and spring combination, that such a pointless journey to the south had never been carried out, etc. But a humoristic question appeared on social networks in the warm December impressions: can potatoes be planted now, or wait until January? On the other hand, in February, when all three seasons were able to change even within a day, the radio was joking that the winter was going to be like students before the session - hurry up at last minute. AT Ozolaines, on the day of the celebrations of Meteens and Moscow, on 1 March, nature had shown a real dramatic season of seasons: a white snow was covered in the morning, and a large snow flakes fell from the air; at another point there was a rain that reminded him of October, but in the middle of the celebrations the wind of the wind fell and the sun was already visible in the sky, which was already shining in the evening, looking for the hope that the long-awaited spring was not behind the mountains.
I want to thank you very much for our festival special guests - Lūznavas for the Senior People's dance collection “Lūznava”, Silmalas for the collection of the cultural house “I-dja” and the two collective leader Iveta Aliai. Thank YOU FOR THE Ozolaines People's House folklore group “Zealand” and the youth club “Ozo”, as well as the cooks of the primary school, the ladies of the Senior Club “fire” and THE Ozolaines parish for the strong farm men - the team has the strength and all of us always succeed in the team. I wish everyone a beautiful Easter waiting time. To wake up the nature and enjoy the eyes and the hearts so that the time of the glory is holy and full of reflection!
Santa Ostasha,
Head of the Ozolaine People's House
Photo: Santa Ostasha, Veronica Lazareva, Edgars Blinov