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On these winter days before Christmas, with rapture in my heart I remember the stories I heard in childhood about ancient Russian customs and traditions. To carol, to generous, to sow, these ancient words to this day have their own meaning and meaning for many. What date do they go caroling? Orthodox Christians?

For example, they give generously on January 13th, and sow at dawn, while they carol on January 6th, and celebrate Christmas at dawn. And all these ancient customs have one purpose: to bring happiness and good luck to the house, so that the bread grows and the family prospers.

What date do they go caroling?

Girls, boys, mostly young people and children poured out in a cheerful crowd on the night before Christmas, January 6, to carol. The star at the head of the carolers carries a bright star, his main advantage is a beautiful ringing voice singing carols. The bell ringer follows, rings the ringing bells and notifies everyone that carolers are coming. And the mekhonosh is one of the strong young men, whose duty is to carry a large bag into which the owners of the houses will throw sweets, gingerbread and candies and give them money.

These attributes are important in ancient custom. A bright 8-pointed star, a ringing bell, the bigger and louder the better, a beautiful bag made of thick fabric, decorated with appliqué and embroidery and, of course, you need to know carols.

This is how a group of dressed up men and women, boys and girls, children go home in cities and villages, sing ringing carols, songs of praise in honor of the owners of the house, and they give them generous gifts, sweets and gingerbread, toys and money.

According to an ancient custom, carolers, approaching a house, ask the owners for permission to carol under their windows, and they, in turn, give them permission. It is very important. This custom brings wealth and prosperity to the house; if you drive away guests, you can lose this.

If you have the opportunity to sing carols, do not refuse. Let yourself feel it ancient custom, feel like part of your people, come into contact with the bright spirit of the Nativity of Christ, give yourself and others a feeling of happiness, kindness, love for your neighbor.

Kolyada is a holiday of the Slavs, the date on which Christmastide began (December 25 - the day of the winter solstice), and they continued until January 6. Thus, even before the adoption of Christianity, people performed Kolyada rituals praising the god of heaven - Dazhdbog. On what date was the holiday Kolyada celebrated after the adoption of Christianity? Pagan celebrations merged with the birthday of Jesus Christ, and Christmastide was already celebrated from December 6 to 19, that is, from Christmas to Epiphany. These Christmas traditions continue to this day. -

Kolyada is a diminutive of “kolo”, the sun-baby (represented as a boy or girl, because for small age The gender of the child does not yet play any role; Our sun itself is neuter).

This deity arose from the holiday of the winter solstice, from the poetic idea of ​​​​the birth of the young sun, that is, the sun of the next year. (This ancient performance the annual baby has not died to this day. It is transferred to the concept of “new year”. It is no coincidence that on postcards and in New Year's celebrations, artists depict the New Year in the form of a boy flying in space).

Among the ancient Slavs, on December 25 (the month of Jelly), the sun began to turn toward spring. Our ancestors imagined Kolyada (cf. bell-wheel; circle is a solar sign of the sun) as a beautiful baby who was captured evil witch Winter. According to legend, she turns him into a wolf cub (compare the synonyms for “wolf” - “fierce” with the Proto-Slavic name for the harshest month of winter: February - fierce). People believed that only when the wolf's skin (and sometimes other animals) was removed from him and burned in the fire (spring warmth) would Kolyada appear in all the splendor of his beauty.

Kolyada was celebrated on the so-called winter Christmastide (Nomad, Christmas Eve). This same time used to coincide with severe frosts (cf. Moro - “death”), blizzards (cf. Viy) and the most frantic dens of the unclean. This evening everything is covered with a frosty veil and seems dead.

And yet, winter Christmastide is the most joyful of the Slavic festivals. On this day, according to legend, the sun dresses up in a sundress and kokoshnik and rides “on a painted cart on a black tip” to warm countries (for spring and summer).

Later, the holiday of Kolyada was replaced by the holiday of the Nativity of Christ. However, among the Slavic peoples, Christmas is still combined with Kolyada. And all Eastern Slavs preserved caroling as a complex of Christmas rituals. Almost all of these rituals came to us from ancient times, when carolers acted as the spirits of ancestors, visiting their descendants and bringing a guarantee of a fruitful year, prosperity, and well-being.

The celebration of Kolyada, with its joy and optimism, expressed the faith of our wise ancestors in the inevitability of the victory of good principles over the forces of evil.

To help Kolyada defeat and drive away evil spirits, those celebrating his day burned bonfires, sang and danced around them. This was supposed to be done in scary masks made from natural materials - fur, leather, bast. birch bark

Dressing up (transforming) a forest monster - a goat, a wolf. bear - emphasized the spirit of the holiday. The scarier the mask, the more you can carol.

Having put on masks, the mummers went home to carol. The favorite entertainment of young people on Christmas Eve on the eve of Christmas (in the evening of January 6) was caroling, beautifully described in the work of N.V. Gogol.

Guys and girls walked around the village and sang carols under the windows - short ritual songs, in which they wished the owners well-being, and they, in payment for the wish, presented them with delicious food. The more plentiful the treat, the more satisfying the next year should be.

Here is one of the carols that is sung under the windows:

To your new summer,

Have a great summer!

Where does the horse's tail go?

It's full of bushes there.

Where does the goat go with its horn?

There's a stack of hay there.

How many aspens,

So many pigs for you;

How many Christmas trees

So many cows;

How many candles

So many sheep

But they also promised terrible punishments if they did not give gifts to the carolers:

Kolyada, Kolyada,

Who won't give you the pie?

We take the cow by the horns

Who won't give donuts,

We hit him in the face,

Who won't give a penny?

That's neck on the side

After singing these songs, the carolers receive a few money, or more pies, sweets, fruits made from wheat dough; and in other places young carol-players are given a bucket or more of beer, which they pour into a barrel they carry with them.

The most common gifts for carolers everywhere were flour products: special ritual cookies in the form of horses, cows and birds (“kalyadushki” in the Moscow province, “ovsenki” - in Ryazan province; “roe” - in many areas), round unleavened flatbreads (Saratov “kolyadashki”, Vladimir “koledki”) and rich pancakes “ kokurki" and "karakulki" in the Novgorod and Vladimir provinces, as well as cheesecakes and pies - everywhere among the Russians. In addition to baked goods, linemen were presented with grain, cereals, flour, butter, sour cream, eggs, beer, tea, sugar, and money.

There were not many other calendar holidays until spring, but the fun in the villages did not die down, because winter is the time for weddings. And those girls who did not yet have grooms organized gatherings - they gathered at some old woman’s place, brought spinning wheels, embroidery, sewing, spent long winter evenings doing needlework, so as not to be bored, sang songs, told fairy tales, sometimes prepared a treat and invited visiting guys.

There are countless ways of fortune telling. This custom comes from the desire to communicate with the ancient Slavic goddess, which was presented in the form of a beautiful spinner girl spinning the thread of fate, the thread of life - Srecha (Meeting) - in order to find out her destiny. For different tribes, the synonyms “court”, “fate”, “share”, “fate”, “lot”, “kosh”, “sentence”, “decision”, “choice” have the same meaning.

In a day winter solstice(December 25) it was necessary to help the sun gain strength - so the peasants lit fires and rolled burning ears of corn, symbolizing the luminary. To prevent the winter from being too harsh, they sculpted a snow woman to represent winter and smashed it with snowballs.

In Slavic fairy tales there are many magical characters - sometimes terrible and formidable, sometimes mysterious and incomprehensible, sometimes kind and ready to help. Modern people they seem like a bizarre fiction, but in the old days in Rus' they firmly believed that Baba Yaga’s hut stood deep in the forest, that a snake abducting beauties lived in the harsh stone mountains, they believed that a girl could marry a bear, and a horse could speak with a human voice.

This faith was called paganism, i.e. “folk faith” (from the ancient Slavic word “language”, meaning “people”).

This contemptuous name for the religion of the Druids/Magi, once common among all “barbaric” European peoples, was invented by Christian clergy. The meaning of the word "pagan" can be translated into modern language as "common", "plebeian".

And now the Russian Orthodox Church is diligently destroying the small remnants of the former Slavic culture, trying to eradicate even fairy-tale heroes. In particular, not so long ago in Russia, at the insistence of the church, the very interesting Baba Yaga Museum was closed. The Church strongly disapproves of New Year's Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, but so far it cannot do anything about this folk tradition

GOD KOLYADA - Supreme God, managing the Great Changes in the life of the Clans of the Great Race and the descendants of the Heavenly Clans.

In ancient times, the Supreme God Kolyada gave many Clans who moved to the western lands a system for calculating seasonal time for conducting field work - the Calendar (Kolyada's gift), as well as his Wise Vedas, commandments and instructions (there will be a separate post about the calendar).

Kolyada is the Patron God of military men and Priests. Kolyada was often depicted with a sword in her hand, with the blade of the sword facing downwards. A sword facing downwards in ancient times meant the preservation of the Wisdom of the Gods and Ancestors, as well as unshakable adherence to the Heavenly Laws, as established by God Svarog for all the Halls of the Svarog Circle.

“Kolyada was born on Christmas Eve. Behind the steep mountain and behind the fast river there are dense forests, in those forests the fires are burning, the fires are scorching, people are standing around the lights, people are standing caroling: - Oh, Kolyada, Kolyada, you come, Kolyada, on the eve of Christmas! Everyone knows that “caroling” - singing holiday songs, receiving treats and gifts for this, is customary at Christmas.

However, this custom is much more ancient than it seems. Even at the time when the Slavs celebrated the New Year in September, in December they celebrated the Christmas of Kolyada - the birth of the young god of light and warmth.

This happened on the day of the solstice (December 21-25), when the day begins to lengthen, albeit at a sparrow's pace. At the same time, the generous goddess Lada was honored; Isn’t this where another name for carols comes from – “Shchedrovki”?

The sign of Kolyada was a wheel with eight painted bright colors spokes - a sign of the sun, and in the center of the wheel there should have been a fire burning - a bunch of straw, a candle or a torch.

Calling on Kolyada to send warmth to the earth as soon as possible, they sprinkled the snow with colored rags and stuck dried flowers, carefully preserved from the summer, into the snowdrifts. On this day, all the fires in the stoves were extinguished for a while and a new fire was lit in them, called Kolyadin fire. Since Kolyada was the god As from the family of the god Svarog, whose usual incarnation in houses was considered a large sheaf, Kolyada was also represented by a sheaf or a straw doll.

……The meaning of the word Kolyada different nations various: Among the Vindyans, Koleda is revered as the deity of festivals and is also called some church ceremonies, and koledowati (kolodovat) means children walking along different houses with songs and dances.

Among the Czechs, Bulgarians and Serbs, Kolėda, as well as wanoenj pиsnеky, means a Christmas song, chodиti po Kolėde, (to walk on the kolėde) means to congratulate you on the New Year and for this to receive gifts from everyone who can give something.

Koleda among the Slovaks means the Blessing of houses, which they have around the holiday of the three kings, and koledowat - to bless houses.....

Bosniaks, Croats and others Slavic peoples By Koleda we mean a gift for the New Year.... . Finally, the word “witchcraft” came from the word caroling. Kolyada, in the southern and Western Rus', actually on the eve of the Nativity of Christ, which is known in the north-east of Russia under the name Avsenya or Tausenya, and among the Lithuanians it is known as the evening of blocks, or Blokkov, in which almost everywhere in the Slavic world and in Russian porridge is prepared from grain bread and made from millet and kutya fruits, reminiscent of the Indian Perun-Tsongol and Ugady, during which the lot for the coming year was guessed by boiling millet...

In the 19th century, near Moscow, it was the custom to call Christmas Eve “Koleda” and on Christmas night to carry a girl in a sleigh, dressed in a shirt over all her warm clothes, which was passed off as Koleda; We don’t know whether such a custom still exists today.

There is an assumption that both the celebration of Koleda and her name moved from Novgorod to Kostroma and other Great Russian provinces in the 15th centuries

After the carols, the evening meal began. At this time, the Nativity Fast ended. Traditionally, Christmas Eve kutia (a dish made from millet and barley) was prepared for the table. Also a mandatory attribute of the Christmas table were figurines of cows, sheep and other animals made from wheat dough. The figurines were given to each other and used to decorate the interior of the house.

The name of Kolyada to this day is constantly heard in carols that contain ancient magic spells: wishes for the well-being of the home and family, demands for gifts from the owners - otherwise ruin was predicted for the stingy. Sometimes the gifts themselves: cookies, loaves of bread were called Kolyada.

Pagan carol festivals have been well preserved and have taken root in our time.

Kolyada is an ancient holiday, a natural holiday bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

And today, when the Russian people want to know their roots, we remember these traditions, these stories, these northern tales of our ancient land!

12.01.2018

The tradition of caroling, giving generously and sowing came to us from ancient times - from the times of the pagans. This is one of the favorite activities and entertainment of both adults and children. Carolers, generosists, sowers go to visit: relatives, friends, godparents, neighbors. It's fun, interesting, and you can collect some money and goodies. But before performing the rituals, you should figure out how to do it correctly, when to go caroling, to give generously and to sow.

When to carol, give generously and sow?

Many people confuse when it is necessary to carol, to give generously and to sow. So:

How to carol, give generously and sow correctly?

Having figured out the dates of holiday rituals, we will find out what their difference is, how to conduct and perform them correctly.

You can start caroling with the appearance of the first star in the sky. At this time, the festive dinner begins, and those who wish go to congratulate with carols on the birth of Christ. Traditionally, in the village they sing carols, walking from house to house, without passing anyone. But in big city It’s enough to go around your neighbors’ apartments. When entering the house of the owners, you need to ask permission to carol. If you refuse, leave, silently and without offense. Of course, you can’t refuse, because... it is considered a sin.

In the old days, a group of carolers consisted of three people, where the main caroler was chosen - the star. He walked ahead of everyone and carried in his hands a star, which symbolizes the birth of the baby Jesus Christ. A person with a loud voice and a good knowledge of carols was chosen as the star-maker. A bell-ringer followed him and carried a large bell, with which he notified that carolers were coming. The third person is a mechonosh. He carried a brightly colored bag decorated with embroidered or painted stars, a sun and a moon. The owners put sweets and treats in it, since it is not customary to take gifts from the hands of the owners.

Carols are sung slowly and drawn out, and at the end they read congratulations and bow to the owners of the house.

Nowadays people give money for carols, but previously they gave them candy, apples, nuts, sausage, ham and other goodies for breaking the fast after the Nativity Fast.

In any case, it is worth remembering that every family considers it an honor that carolers came to wish them a Merry Christmas and did not bypass them.

Popular carols in Russian and Ukrainian:

Today an Angel has descended upon us

And he sang: “Christ is born!”

We came to glorify Christ,

And congratulate you on the holiday.

Here we go, shepherds,

All our sins are forgiven.

We make our way to home,

We glorify Christ God.

I sing a carol for you,

God bless you with a harvest

Generous fields, flowering gardens,

Star in the sky on Holy Eve

For adults and children.

My carol is mooning,

The whole world is out with Christmas.

Many people mistakenly think that caroling can be done at Christmas. However, on the morning of January 7th they celebrate Christmas, i.e. sing Christmas songs and wish Merry Christmas.

Meanwhile, in the southern regions of the country, including the Rostov region, since the time Soviet power slightly different traditions took hold. On the evening of January 6, on the eve of Christmas, children wear kutya to their relatives, friends, godparents and neighbors. And on the evening of January 7, adults walk around the yards of friends with comic carols.

Caroling on the night before Christmas, with songs of religious content and a Christmas star, is almost no longer found in the south of Russia.

They are generous in the evening on the eve of the Old New Year - January 13th. Their characteristic difference from carols is the chorus “Generous evening, good evening good people to your health!” The ancestors believed that on Generous Evening Malanka-Water comes with Vasily the Moon to stay and bring prosperity and good luck to the owners for the coming year.

On the morning of January 13, housewives prepare a festive dinner of 12 non-Lenten dishes. An obligatory dish is the ritual generous kutya. They also bake pancakes, pies, make roast and homemade sausage, and make dumplings with cheese and cottage cheese. These dishes are given to generous givers (January 13) and sowers (January 14).

Generous people go door to door from evening to midnight, entering after the invitation of the owners. They are generous mostly girls, but bachelor groups also go. All the guys dress in masks, and one of them wears a woman’s outfit. The male group is nicknamed “they are leading Melanka”, and the one dressed as a woman is “Melanka”. Generous people read good wishes owners, wishing a rich harvest, livestock offspring, good swarming of bees, well-being, health, happiness and prosperity. They entertain with dances, songs and comic skits. The ancestors believed in every word and the magical function of generous gifts.

How to sow correctly

Early in the morning of January 14, when it begins to dawn, young people go home and sow. According to popular beliefs, on January 14, a man should be the first to enter the house - both a child and an adult: this will bring prosperity and happiness. Girls will not bring happiness, so traditionally only boys sow.

Men fill fabric bags or mittens with grain: wheat, barley, rye, rice. Usually they start sowing from their own home, for which the parents gave the boys sweets and money.

Arriving at the house, the sowers must ask the owners for permission to perform the ceremony. Usually there are never any failures, because... the sower is always a welcome guest.

Entering the house, the sowers greet the owners, congratulate them on the New Year, sow the apartment with grain and sprinkle it on the owners. This action is accompanied by the words: “We sow, we weed, we sow, Happy New Year! Although Old New Year- still brings goodness!

The owners invited the sowers to the table, treated them to pies, and presented them with apples and bagels. And if desired, the most generous thanksgiving was money.

The grain that was sown is considered a talisman, so it is not swept away until sunset.

Popular seeders in Russian and Ukrainian:

We sow, we weed, we sow,

Happy New Year!

Fortunately, good health, Happy New Year,

May you have a better birth than last year!

Hemp to the ceiling, and flax to the knee,

So that you, the owners, don’t have a headache!

Be healthy, Happy New Year and Happy Vasily!

God grant!

This, this, I sow, I don’t miss your house,

With the New Rock I go to the house,

May I please you:

May all children be healthy,

If the porridge is all ready,

May you find peace from them.

And we don’t get pennies for a fee!

I sow, I scatter

Oats, rye,

God's mercy!

For cool cottage cheese

Pie for the shepherd!

We sow, we sow, we sow,

Happy New Year

Open the chests

Take out the snouts.

Give me a thousand, give me five

Don't regret twenty-five.

If you are rich

Give me half my salary.

We sow, we weed, we sow,

Happy New Year.

There will be a mountain of happiness for you,

There is a lot of harvest.

Give birth to oats,

To grow two meters.

You are born with wheat,

And peas and lentils.

So that there are too many guests

It was in the house for a whole year!

There is always pie on the table.

Easy, easy roads for you!

We also note that, even without knowing the order of the ritual, learn beautiful songs and poems, make suitable costumes. Residents of the houses will feel your good energy and generously give them gifts. After all, the most important thing in carols, generosity and sowing is not the gifts received, but good mood and the awareness that you are preserving deep ancient traditions.

Prepared using materials from the TutKnow website

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In this article we will talk about such ancient tradition Slavs, like caroling. Many people still like to carol today, but not everyone is familiar with the nuances of this tradition.

Kolyada is originally pagan holiday, which they even tried to ban with the advent of Christianity. Shchedrivki glorified the month and called for a good harvest. Even today, these traditions are very popular, but not everyone follows their nuances.

When and on what date do they give generously in Russia, and when do they sing carols?

IMPORTANT: Remember that it is customary to carol on the Christmas evening of January 6, and to give generously on the evening of January 13. However, Generous Evening is sometimes celebrated from December 31 to January 1.

What does caroling mean: Christmas traditions

It is still not entirely clear where the name of the holiday came from. Some researchers give the word "Calenda" Latin roots and translated as "new year holiday". However, Kolyada was also called pagan deity — the personification of the birth of the sun, the embodiment of the beginning of a new cycle, the patron saint of fun and feasts.

Kolyada is the deity of fun and the beginning of a new cycle.

This deity was called upon by our ancestors, performing songs and other ritual actions. It was necessary to attract prosperity to the home, prosperity of the household- it’s not for nothing that carols were also called "grapes", "oats". With the spread of Christianity, motifs began to be woven into carols glorifying the birth of Jesus Christ.

IMPORTANT: Nowadays, caroling is perceived simply as entertainment. But our ancestors took “difficult guests” very seriously. And it is not surprising, because carolers symbolized the souls of ancestors who come to their descendants, bringing them happiness.

All families were looking forward to the carolers with great impatience and prepared refreshments for their arrival. For such purposes, “difficult guests” took the bag.

It often happened that in large villages 5-10 groups of carolers could approach one house. It was not accepted to refuse them, otherwise the inhospitable hosts risked being accused of greed.

Caroled mostly boys and girls or unmarried men and unmarried women . Children could also participate in the ritual. They especially liked performances on the gospel theme, which were sometimes performed in front of hospitable hosts.

It is curious that each region had its own characteristics of caroling. So, Volga region and central zone of European Russia were characterized by the fact that “difficult guests” addressed all the hosts at once, outlining to them a specially exaggerated picture of domestic well-being. And here are the carolers northern provinces addressed with the exclamation “The grapes are my red and green!” to each member of the family that met them separately.

IMPORTANT: It was believed that this tradition must necessarily represent an exchange: the guests gave the hosts good luck and happiness, and the latter - money, pies, cheesecakes and various sweets. Moreover, special flour products called “kozulki” were especially common.

How to carol correctly for adults and children?

Please note that the company of carolers should include at least 3 people. The fact is that there must certainly be:

• Zvezdar- walks at the head of the procession, carrying a Christmas eight-pointed star. He must be a lively person who knows many poems and has a sonorous voice.
• Bell ringer- follows the star, carrying a large bell. By ringing, he notifies others about the approach of a company of carolers.
• Mechonosha- the third important participant in the procession, who is responsible for the large bag for gifts. Mechonosha must be strong, since carrying treats at the end of the celebration is not easy.

IMPORTANT: According to tradition, hospitable hosts themselves put the gifts in the bag. Even a fur-bearer should not accept them from hand to hand.

He can follow these three carolers as many people as you can gather. It is believed that the more numerous and noisy the company, the better. It is recommended to dress in folk costumes.

About star worth mentioning separately. This symbol should be bright, decorated broken Christmas tree decorations, ribbons, sparkles. It is advisable to paint it yellow.

Bag it is also advisable to do bright. It is recommended to decorate it month, stars and sun.

The process itself can be divided into the following stages:

• When approaching home, you should sing "outdoor" songs who ask permission from the owners
• If permission is given, you can enter the house and begin sing carols with magnificence for all family members

IMPORTANT: According to tradition, a boy or a man must enter first.

• In the end they are fulfilled songs with wishes for well-being. Only after them can you ask for a reward for the performance

Russian short carols for Christmas for the youngest children: poems and songs

Carols, carols, carols -
Pancakes are good with honey!
And without honey - it’s not the same,
Give me some pies, auntie!

Shchedrik-Petryk,
Give me the dumpling!
a spoonful of porridge,
Top sausages.
This is not enough
Give me a piece of bacon.
Take it out quickly
Don't freeze the children!

Kolyada, Kolyada,
We open all the houses,
All the windows, chests,
We give sweets and pies,
So that it would be good for you,
Say thank you to heaven
God will give us all health,
After all, he is good at this!

Kolyada, Kolyada
Christmas Eve
Damn and flatbread
Owner Alyoshka
Give me a nickel, auntie
I won't leave home like that!

A little boy
Sat down on a glass
And the glass is fragile
Give me a rub, mistress!

The sparrow flies
Twirls his tail,
And you people know
Cover the tables
Receive guests
Happy Christmas!

Greet the Magi,
Meet the Holy
Christmas has come -
Let's start the celebration!

Russian folk carols for Christmas for schoolchildren: poems and songs

Kolyada, Kolyada,
It's Christmas Eve!
Good auntie,
The pie is delicious
Don't cut, don't break,
Serve it quickly
Two, three,
We've been standing for a long time
Let us not stand!
The stove is heating up
I want some pie!

Long gone out in the winter darkness
Eastern star,
But we haven’t forgotten on earth
Birth of Christ.
How the shepherds came to him
Until morning time
How the sages presented
He has his gifts.
How the king killed babies
Rewarding the killer
How a sent angel saved
Sacred child.
How, preaching love,
And the truth of the Divine,
Every year he was born again
For the Christmas holiday.

This night is holy
This night of salvation
Announced to the whole world
The Mystery of the Incarnation.
Shepherdesses near the flock
We didn't sleep that night.
The holy angel flew to them
From the heavenly bright distance.

Kolyada, Kolyada,
Come from afar
Once a year
Let's admire it for an hour.
We're crackling with the frost,
With a prickly cold,
With white snows,
With a blizzard, with blizzards.
Scooters - sleighs
We drove ourselves -
From village to village,
Kolyada is fun.

Russian folk carols for Christmas for adults: poems and songs

Oh, I’m dancing, I’m dancing for the dear one
Maybe it will give you half a gold piece.
Oh, not enough, not enough, that’s it!
Oh, I'm galloping, galloping, I want silver!
Since you have a son, give me a wheel of cheese.
Since you have a daughter, give me a barrel of honey.
If you're not rich, kick me out of the house
Be it a log, or a broom, or a crooked poker

Rich men
Open the chests
Get your heels out
If there is no patch,
Then let's have some pie.
Don't give me the pie
I'll take the cow by the horns
I'll take you to Torzhok,
I'll sell it there for a pie.

I sow, weed, I sow, I congratulate you on Kolyada,
I wish you happiness and joy.
I sow, winnow, wind, barley, sprinkle grain,
So that it grows in the field, so that it doubles in the stable,
So that children grow up, so that girls get married.
I sow, winnow, sow, I wish you happiness and joy.
Whoever gives us pie will get a barn full of cattle,
Sheep with oats, stallion with a tail.
Whoever doesn't give pie gets a chicken leg,
Pestle and shovel, hunchbacked cow.

Russian folk carols for Christmas are short and funny

Merry Christmas -
We wish you sober thoughts,
So that the Earth does not shake,
And my soul enjoyed it!

Kolyada, Kolyada,
And the woman has a beard.
And my grandfather grew a tail.
Runs to the girls, the scoundrel.

Kolyada, Kolyada...
We dance all the years.
And also on all fours
We boldly climb the steps.

Kolyada, Kolyada,
We never get sick.
The wives start an argument -
We fly naked into the yard.

Russian folk long carols for Christmas

The moon shone in the sky and showed us the way
Upper and lower – closest to the house.
Go out onto the porch, owner, pour some wine into a glass.
We won’t drink wine, we’ll smear it on our lips,
We'll smear it on your lips and tell you about your house.
Your house has four corners,
In each corner there are three young men:
Goodness, Comfort, Peace live.
A girl walks from corner to corner -
The braid is spreading across the floor -
The girl's name is Love,
Your roof rests on it!
If you reward us generously,
You will keep happiness in your home!
Let's leave the yard with gifts -
The bins will be full!
Even a candy, even a nickel -
We won't just leave!

Kolyada arrived on the eve of Christmas.
Give me the cow, the oil head!
Standing on the window, looking at me.
Serve the pancake, the oven will go smoothly!
Kolyada, Kolyada, give me some pie!
Damn and a cake in the back window!
The New Year has come, the old one has been stolen, and it has shown itself.
Go, people, meet the sun,
Drive away the frost!
And whoever is in this house - God forbid!
He gets an octopus from the ear,
From grain - a carpet for him,
Half-grain pie!
God reward you
And live and be!

Kolyada you, Kolyada,
A carol came by,
I recorded a carol,
Sovereign's courtyard,
The Sovereign's courtyard in the middle of Moscow,
Middle of stone.
Gossip darling,
Donate splinters
On holy evenings,
To games, to gatherings.
Thank you, godfather, my white swan,
You didn’t celebrate, you didn’t play pranks,
I went for a walk to the market, bought some silk for myself,
I embroidered a fly and gave it to my dear friend.
Give you, Lord, forty cows, fifty piglets,
yes forty chickens.

Cool Russian folk carols

We sow, we blow, we fly
And we wish you prosperity,
Don't skimp on pancakes
May we sing beautifully.

Christmas carols,
Give us some food.
We were walking down the street
Even a little exhausted!

Tyapu-lyapu,
Hurry up and give me a carol!
Feet are chilly
I'll run home.
Who will give
He is the prince
Who won't give -
Togo in the dirt!

You will give us -
we will praise
and you won’t give -
we will reproach!
Kolyada, Kolyada!
Serve the pie!

Good evening, generous evening,
Good health to good people.
The falcon has arrived
Sat at the window
I cut the cloth.
And the leftovers are for the owners’ hats,
And the scraps and for the belts,
Hello, happy holiday!

Of course, these days they don't carry carols. sacred meaning– they are simply a way to have fun during the holidays. However, if you have already decided to please those around you and yourself, do not be lazy to learn the nuances of caroling along with the rhymes.