Ancient Wedding Tradition of Russia

Only in small towns, towns, villages and villages has the tradition of which I want to tell you. It is so old and not popular that there is no information about it on the Internet as much as I have not searched. A lot has been written about the wedding day.

The ceremony is carried out only if there are several children in the family. Parents who yesterday married or married the last child in the family, it is customary to pour dirt. This tradition is carried out on the morning of the second day of the wedding. And in all sorts of ways.

A small hole is dug outside the gates of a private house. It dilutes dirt from the ground and water to sour cream consistency. Then a wooden stake is hammered into it. His parents slaughter him, so that there is as much mud as possible. It is believed that this stake will save the young couple from divorce. This is how the custom is carried out in private houses where there is a place to score a stake. It is difficult to imagine what this ceremony would look like if it was held near a multi-storey building in the center of Moscow.

There is another way to bathe parents in the mud. Yes, yes! To bathe! Often this custom is carried out in villages and villages. Also, a hole breaks out outside the gate of the house, but only of large size. The bottom and walls, which are covered with gluten, are diluted with a lot of dirt (also with the help of water) in which parents bathe, who issued and married all children in the family. No one knows what that means. I do not remember exactly, before or after the “mud” parents ride on a wagon throughout the village, tied to the “vehicle” cans. As you can see, the whole village has fun. Someone is watching, and someone is participating in fun. It is good that these mud baths are arranged on the second day of the wedding, and not on the first. Because not only parents, but also guests climb into the mud on a drunken head. After all, they still drink at the holidays a lot. Otherwise, the bride would be wearing a wedding dress. I had to go to town for him many times. As a rule, wedding salons selling wedding dresses in such settlements, simply do not exist.