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Download Article (PDF) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 144 3rd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2017) Rituals and Customs as a Reflection of the Folk Tradition The Russian North in the Context of Culture Magda Djichonaya Institute of Slavic Culture Russian State University named after A.N. Kosygin Moscow, Russia E-mail: [email protected] Abstract—The article is devoted to folklore traditions and is II. TRADITIONAL HOUSEHOLD WAY OF LIFE OF considered by the example of the Russian North. Ethno- INHABITANTS OF THE ARKHANGELSK REGION cultural realities reflect the specifics of the structure of artistic culture and of the existence in it of authentic folklore. Russia‘s Arkhangelsk Region, for instance, due to its remoteness, is distinguished by preserved in the area unique Keywords—polyfunctionality of art; art in the context of centuries-old folk traditions. Its art presents the masterpiece culture; folk traditions; ethnic and cultural realities of people and the perception in the mass. Folklore traditions are very well preserved, as handed down from generation to I. INTRODUCTION generation. The specificity of the cultural and logical approach to the Description of nature, navigation, hunting, fishing, study of art lies in its consideration as part of a holistic socio- peculiarities of female labor, buildings, clothing, etc. cultural space as a special sphere of human activity and, contained numerous realities of everyday life of the fishing finally, as a cultural phenomenon in which the artistic and population of the Russian North, from which came the aesthetic values are accumulated. storytellers. Openness to artistic culture as a system lies in its ability The key elements of the way of life of northerners — to restrict and expand one‘s frame of graduation. This is birth, holidays, crafts, wedding, death, etc. were manifested in the development of very different, sometimes accompanied by a certain traditional action, the rites. For even opposite trends. Very significant is the establishment of instance, there is a colorful ceremony, common to the new ties and relationships between the qualitatively and Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of the Arkhangelsk quantitatively different elements of art and culture, forming Region when "a girl gets up early in the morning to bake its integrity. homemade cookies — ‗Shangi‘, round, medium size holiday The structure of artistic culture reflects the multi- cakes. The girl must take the first baked Shanga and run functionality of art, which manifests itself in a special role in through the village until meets the first man. She must ask human life, in the development of society and culture, and in his name. That will be the name of her future husband.‖ the process of the transformation of nature. Essential Christmas amusements of the people in the The appeal to art is the need for it and the degree of Russian North included comic courtship and marriage. belonging to the art regarding human desire for spiritual self- Widespread wedding games Russian new year's ceremony determination and development of their creative potential. testifies to the importance of the topic of marriage. Art is examined within the broader context of culture and As an element of folklore, very common divination was determines form and the originality of its relationship with the evocation of visual images, including the most frequently other spheres of spiritual life, folk and decorative art. This art practiced when ―girls were looking into a glass of water or in is not regarded as a normal component in the culture system. the mirror trying to see a fiancé.‖ The pattern of divination in It acts as a model of culture, which presents the main general, coincides with fortunetelling in other areas. More parameters of spiritual culture. The study of external and rare divination is presented with a ring put in a glass of water, internal problems of this model‘s functioning offers an at which a girl must look until sees her future groom. important issue of cultural studies. Guessing by interpretation of roosters‘ and sheep‘s In the context of folk tradition, let us consider the behavior was widely spread. The cock was put in front of example of the Russian North, where these traditions are poured grain piles—from whose pile the cock pecks first, largely preserved in their authentic forms. that girl soon was expected to get married. Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 46 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 144 In the Arkhangelsk districts the folks referring to As to our porch, entertainers called them ‗kulikoni‘ or ‗silicone‘. And the porch to the indoor, According to peasants‘, the silicone lived in water, where they were chosen before Baptism and settled in safe places. And chiseled, If silicone will dwell in the house, only a witch doctor can And the rings gilded, expel them. rode horses, good horses III. RITUALS AND CUSTOMS And good savvy bells The richest in ritual elements is the holiday Mardi Gras. As shown by comparative analysis of Maslenitsa ceremonies And shaft bows in different Russian regions, the cycle of rituals was formed And they boldly approached, of the following composite actions: horse riding through a village or around it, sliding from mountains, the customs And they loudly drove associated with the newlyweds, pancakes, fist fights and To our house and came horse races. The last two practices are completely absent in the Arkhangelsk region. The rest of the customs have My Dear and Sweetheart, similarity within Russia, despite possessing some unique Eyes bright and soulful. features. When riding, the guys had their favorite girls on their knees. In the villages, boys decorated horses with girls‘ In the wedding lamentation in the Russian North a silk ribbons. Everywhere there were made ice slides for special role is assigned to the practice of bride‘s bathing young and old. The Mezen villages, for instance, had the during which she is washing away her ‗charms‘: tradition of skating newlyweds — young couples living I didn't wash, nor splendid together less than a year. With the mighty shoulders of water, Speaking about the family-ritual folklore it is essential to highlight conventions related to wedding. The Arkhangelsk With zealous heart, region is very rich with various details of the wedding With white face, hot tears. ceremony. Some of them are regarded as inherent only in the Northern Great Russians: washing of the bride in a bath and Only washed me, fair maiden, the related practice and folklore, theater and drama wedding submission, the sad savor of the ceremony, created through I still have my own beauty, the bride‘s lamentations. And this ‗beauty‘ flies out of bath with steam: Wedding laments offer one of the major and oldest With a water thread and under the bench, Russian wedding poetry. They are considered an integral part of the wedding ‗scenario‘. And fled away. According to reports, lamentations were performed by There is an indirect evidence that while being washed the the bride. She had to wail at the wedding no matter how bride was purged of a disease. In the past, there was a belief good or bad she was at it. that if the newlyweds had some disease and while having them, were crowned, that disease is incurable. ―When the The Pinega area, as compared with its neighboring areas, bride and groom wore crowns during the ceremony and the had preserved a greater number of lamentations, due to many priest said, ―Crowned servant of God (so-and-so)‖, the latter reasons. The Pinega wedding ceremony offers rather a had to be baptized and say quietly: ―I, the servant of God complicated scenario with all wedding ritual details, (so-and-so), crowned, and my diseases are not crowned‖. including actions of ceremony participants and certain pieces of wedding poetry. Below is an example of such lamentation IV. EPIC AS A FORM OF FOLKLORE at a wedding ceremony in the Pinega district: It is known that public merrymaking and dancing were Darling, you're my sister, mostly preserved in the Russian North. In the late last century, this was almost they were almost completely ousted come to sit under the oak. in Russia‘s central regions by dances penetrating from towns. And take a piece of paper Traditional entertainment forms were especially preserved in the Mezen area. To write to you a raving letter. Continuing the non-characteristics of folklore include Departed to my dear home town. tales from the epic. The predominance of the epic genre in What we have today? And the house work, Mezen area by chance. Yes, the wedding dresses up. Northern epics were quite different from those in Russia‘s south, they were mainly monophonic, with a Or detailed plot, recitative melody, agnostic or strophical. Northern storytellers amongst fishermen, hunters, masters of Darling, You're my bestie, 47 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 144 shipwork were the guardians of greatest epics. In the Russian historical events, sometimes tragic, the people‘s awareness North, there were three stylistic groups of epics: Onega of spiritual unity, belonging to the Russian nation had (storytellers Ryabinkina, Surikova, Bogdanov, etc.), Onega– formed. White Sea (Krivopolenova, Kryukov, the Ikonnikovs), and Mezen–Pechersk (Antonov, Shulgina, Chuprova). The The knowledge that students get during their field trips, Northern narrative tradition is mostly solo, but sometimes ethnographic expeditions, talking with locals, old timers, members of one dynasty sing chorally, backing the first recorded interviews – all these is likely to assist in singer‘s lead. arrangement and celebration of folklore festivals.
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