The Festival Customs of Russian Meat Festival

The oldest and most important tradition of the Meat Festival is to cook and eat pancakes called pancakes. This kind of pancake is golden yellow, symbolizing the sun, indicating that spring is coming and the days are getting longer and longer. This pancake was originally made of buckwheat flour, butter, eggs, milk, potatoes or cream and seasonings. With the improvement of people's daily life, flour is gradually added to it. When eating, roll up caviar or salmon and eat it with pancakes. Dancing, singing, skiing, skating, boxing and other sports activities are also essential programs of the meat festival. In addition, a major feature of Xierou Festival is that every day of the week is celebrated in different ways.

Boxing is another entertainment form of meat festival, which has been preserved to this day. The most unpleasant pleasure is to slide down the icy hillside at high speed. Slavs have long regarded the meat festival as the New Year. Because before 14 century, the Russian New Year began in March. According to Russian custom, good luck on New Year's Day will continue into the next year. Therefore, in this festival, Russians do not spare wine and food, and indulge in pleasure. Therefore, Xie Meat Festival has always been called a "frank" and "national" festival among the people.

At the meat festival, people like to play on swings, but every year, people are disabled because they play too much. Tsar Alexei took the most severe measures, forbidding private brewing and Russians from taking part in adventure games. "No punching, no swinging". But these strict laws are so powerless in the face of out-of-control joy. When young Peter I attended the meat festival in Moscow, he played happily on the swing despite his father's dissuasion.

Kolb, a diplomat of the Austrian Embassy in Russia, found that during the Xie Meat Festival, people's "respect for the supreme ruler disappeared, and individual will prevailed everywhere". To his surprise, even the young czar Peter I ignored the traditional majesty. Kolb became a participant in festival entertainment: the meat festival was held in the newly-built palace in Moscow. This funny elder named "Duke Dad" is in charge of the "Everyone Drunk" church and is regarded as a saint. The palace is dedicated to the Greek god Bacchus, and incense is scattered everywhere. The old man waved a cross made of a pipe to bless everyone. Then there is a two-day feast, and participants can't go home to rest. Foreign guests are only allowed to take turns to rest, and those who wake up must dance in groups.

In order to celebrate the coronation and imitate Peter I, Catherine II held a grand masquerade in Moscow during the meat festival called "Overcoming Minerva". During the three-day masked parade, various social bad habits were displayed, such as accepting bribes, embezzling state treasury property and complicated official procedures, which were well managed by the wise czar. There are 4000 actors and 200 coaches participating in the popularity.

Catherine II finally looked forward to the birth of his grandson Alexander. She hoped that Alexander would take the place of Pavel, her son who had fallen out of favor, and succeed to the throne. She was overjoyed and held a veritable "Diamond Meat Festival". Lord garis, the British ambassador, described it as: "The female czar feasted at will during the meat festival, and its scale and specifications were more than ever before. After dinner, desserts are served on expensive plates. These plates are inlaid with precious stones, and their value is close to 2 million pounds. " After dinner, the winner of the game, the female czar, presented beautiful diamonds to each other. In just one night, she gave away nearly 65,438+050 priceless exquisite diamonds, which amazed Lord garis.

The most important day of the Meat Festival is Sunday. In Russia, this day is called Mutual Forgiveness Day. People apologize to each other for all the unhappiness they have caused their relatives and friends.