Shrovetide in 2022 and forgiven Sunday begins for what date: date. Shrovetide and forgiven Sunday - the essence of the holiday in Russia

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Holidays are an integral part of a person’s life. We do not imagine a year without a bathing, New Year, Shrovetide and many others.

By the way, the tradition of baking pancakes and eating them in large numbers for a whole week came to us from the ancestors. It has changed in many ways, but its essence and its individual elements have been preserved.

We will continue the series of articles on the topic of Shrovetide, Blinds, fun for children and rites.

When is Shrovetide celebrated in 2022?


fun women of three generations at the festival of Shrovetide eat pancakes

fun women of three generations at the festival of Shrovetide eat pancakes

  • The festive week of Shrovetide falls on March 2022, namely from March 1 to 6, 2022.

When forgiven Sunday in 2022?

  • Forgiveness Sunday - the last day of the festive week of Shrovetide. It will March 6, 2022.

How long does the festival of Shrovetide last?


colorful stuffed Shrovetide

colorful stuffed Shrovetide

The duration of Shrovetide is a week. Although our ancestors before the arrival of Christianity ate pancakes and called the spring warmth of 14 days. Until the day of the spring equinox, they actively baked and treated each other with delicious pancakes for a week and the same amount after.

Representatives of the Christian church left only 7 days of the holiday, moving its dates. Now Shrovetide is always celebrated a week before Great Lent and 7 weeks before Easter.

To more joyfully celebrate Shrovetide, for each day of the week there is its own schedule, a list of ritual actions and a name. Read more about this here.

Hasteen Hasteen for Children


joyful kids at a table with a hill of pancakes

joyful kids at a table with a hill of pancakes

As adults had fun on a scale on Shrovetide, so the children frolic and played with an even greater fuse.

It all started until the first day of the festive Shrovetide, when the children stopped all the wagons and asked if they were taking Shrovetide. The negative answer was punished by the berths of the slippers of the guys.

The children had funny functions for the pancake holiday:
  • pouring ice slides and skiing from them
  • modeling snowmen in a park/yard or on a sleigh and launching them from slides
  • building snow walls for games
  • cooking Shield of Shrovetide on a sleigh from a hill and throughout the settlement to songs, jokes, live music
  • comic fights, for example, to tear off the hat from the enemy, “cocks” battles, pull me, puste,
  • food of delicious pancakes with different fillings without restrictions
  • pancake throwing in order to get into a frying pan or stove
  • construction of high walls/labyrinths from snow and their capture
  • funny "snowballs"
Interesting ideas for the script of the festival of Shrovetide in kindergarten for kids read here.

Congratulations on Shrovetide and forgiven Sunday, songs, ditties, riddles

people in national costumes sing songs on Shrovetide

people in national costumes sing songs on Shrovetide

Our ancestors knew the power of the word, especially in songs, ditties, jokes and sayings.

On such a big holiday as calling spring, the words seem to be endowed with even greater force.

We insert several verses, songs and ditties in the pictures below.

funny ditties about Shrovetide

funny ditties about Shrovetide

poetic invitation to Maslenitsa for festivities

poetic invitation to Maslenitsa for festivities


invitation to Shrovetide to visit in verses

invitation to Shrovetide to visit in verses

congratulations on Shrovetide in Verses

congratulations on Shrovetide in Verses

A greater variety of congratulatory songs, ditties and riddles to Shrovetide and forgiven Sunday read here.

Pancakes on Russian Shrovetide


stop fragrant pancakes on Shrovetide

stop fragrant pancakes on Shrovetide

Damn personifies the sun, it is warm and is a symbol of the arrival of spring, the awakening of nature to the new cycle of life.

Bake pancakes from yeast dough on Shrovetide. And take flour the most different for gastronomic experiments. Although our ancestors respected more buckwheat for baking minute pancakes. She gave them an amazing aroma and tasty acid.

The best dough from the combination:
  • wheat and buckwheat flour in a ratio of 2.5: 1
  • milk and water in equal shares
Add yeast from 10 g to each glass of flour, butter, whipped egg protein and cream.

The process of making dough for pancakes in ancestors consisted of 4 stages:

  • kneading from half the volume of flour and fluid with yeast
  • setting in a warm place for approaching
  • acor, that is, its increase in volume by 2-3 times
  • adding the rest of the ingredients with kneading the dough that goes for baking
In order for the pancakes to be strong and thin, the housewives used thick cast -iron pans. They were well warmed up and baked with salt before the baking pancakes.

Before the dough, the frying pan was lubricated either with vegetable oil or a piece of unsalted fat.

Masters-tanopecks use such ways to prepare them:
  • ordinary when the pancake bakes on both sides
  • with the addition of a thin layer of filling on one side, which is then fried
  • laying the filling and filling it with pancake test with further baking
  • folding pancakes in a cake with a salt or sweet layer and baking in the oven
During Shrovetide, pancakes were replaced even by bread. Each mistress tried to feed the guests more tasty with them.

More secrets and ready -made recipes for delicious pancakes on Shrovetide read in a future article. Dedicated to pancakes

What is forgiven Sunday: rite

men hug on forgiven Sunday as a sign of each other's forgiveness

men hug on forgiven Sunday as a sign of each other's forgiveness

The final, seventh day of Shrovetide week is called forgiven Sunday, or a kisser.
  • Folk festivities are in full swing. Young people rolled the scarecrow of Shrovetide throughout the village all over the settlement with songs and ditties.
  • In the morning on this day, a fire was formed at the highest place of the terrain, so that the energy of a deceased Shrovetide would go into space with smoke. So in ancient times, the spirits of the ancestors were given and revered their memory.
  • The oldest members of society or youth, who found a fern flower for Kupala, fanned the Maslenic fire. The ashes were scattered over the fields and trampled in the snow to arouse the earth to a new round of the origin of life and crop.
It was customary to sit at the table 7 times on forgiven Sunday, which is equal to the number of weeks of Great Lent.
  • From alcohol, our ancestors refrained. They believed that spring should be met in pure consciousness.
  • In the evening, there was surely a bathhouse for washing all the mud of physical and sincere.
  • It was accepted to ask for forgiveness for all the deeds, it was customary to repent after dinner on Sunday. Father's father sat on a separate chair/shop and each in order of seniority approached him, bowed at his feet and apologized. Be sure to list all the sins. Forgiveness from the elder contained an answer, hugs and kissing on the cheeks.
  • When the youngest finished his speech, his father got up and bowed in response to everyone with similar words.

They tried to fall asleep until midnight. Then on Monday morning, the rise will be easy.

We easily and joy adopting funny traditions to the ancestor. Therefore, Shrovetide came to us "to taste."

However, think about its deeper meaning, study the meaning of rituals and symbols thoroughly. This is the only way we will preserve the bright memory and gratitude to our ancestors for life.

Remember your roots read them!

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