The Russian Winter Festival is coming. For Russians, this festival is to celebrate the end of winter and welcome the arrival of spring.

Russia’s Winter Festival is coming. Winter Festival is also called the Meat Festival. Winter Festival means celebrating the end of winter and the coming of spring. Winter Festival is a festival that combines some traditional religious elements. Russian people all celebrate it.

Celebrate the Winter Festival happily, which lasts for about a week, and then people will usher in the fasting period before Easter.

? The Winter Festival is usually around the end of February and the beginning of March, which is the eighth week before the Orthodox Easter every year.

The origin of the Winter Festival is because the ancient Slavs believed that when the goddess defeated the cold and night, it would be the day when spring came.

Therefore, every year at the end of February or early March, there will be some small changes in the celebration time of Maslenitsa. People in ancient Slavia will hold a grand ceremony to welcome spring and send off winter, which gave birth to the Winter Sending Festival.

After Orthodox Christianity was introduced to Russia, the church established a winter festival before the Orthodox Lent period.

Because meat is not allowed to be eaten during Lent, Winter Day has become a day for Russians to bid farewell to meat, so it is also called Meat Shelena.

During the Winter Festival, people indulge in joy. People will eat meat, drink alcohol, play games, and bake pancakes. In order to prepare for the fasting life later, they will hold toys of the sun in their hands, symbolizing the arrival of the sun.

Scarecrows or snowmen will be burned on this day to symbolize the end of winter. It is also said that the weather in the summer can be judged from the time when the snowman is burned, and the shorter the time, the better the weather will be this year.

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According to their traditional folk customs, the winter festival is celebrated in different ways every day.

For example, Monday is the day to welcome the arrival of spring.

People will tie dolls with straw and cloth to symbolize winter and place them at home.

In the evening, people light bonfires and sing and dance around them.

The next day is entertainment day, everyone will have fun and play various games.

Wednesday is Food Day, the day when the son-in-law eats at her mother-in-law's house.

The next day is Drunk Day, when people drink, dance and have a good time.

Friday is the day when the son-in-law treats his mother-in-law to a meal.

The sixth day was the sister-in-law's gathering.

The last day is Forgiveness Day, when people ask each other to forgive themselves.

In this way, people can get rid of the old grievances accumulated during the year and welcome the new wonderful year with a new mood. And they think that if they are not happy on Maslenitsa, their luck will not be very good in the next year.

, so people have to live happily during the winter festival.