Holidays – the constant companion of national life. Holidays for us – it is possible to please someone! Holiday – no calendar concept. The holiday takes place where it feels, where he was waiting. Holiday as a Cultural Phenomenon – Day or days of celebration, established in honor or memory of someone or something. In the mind of a person associated with the holiday as a "temporary entry into the utopian realm of universality, freedom, equality and abundance." Holiday – antithesis of the realities of ordinary life, a specific short form of human being. The historical roots of the holiday leave in antiquity, they are closely related to magic, ritual, work, worldview, a way of life, value orientation. Since ancient times there was a need for a common human feasts, performs important social functions: the compensatory, aesthetic, moral ennobling.
The holiday served as a way to spiritual unity, collective self-expression and gaining freedom, liberation, lifting cargo everyday worries and anxieties. No matter how far we have deepened in the history of the peoples of Russia (And not only in Russia), we could not find a time that such a period in which there would be no holidays. Ranging from dancing around a bonfire on the occasion of a successful hunt and ending with Christmas time, Shrovetide, Easter, the Bathing Week and other calendar days of today's festivities. Since the days of prehistoric temples and pagan understanding of nature and its place and role in her nation missed a chance to sing, dance and play. Praised the gods, worshiping idols sought to appease their sacrifices, songs, dances and games. This first principle survived to our days of ceremonies and rituals easily recognizable if you know the history of the formation and development of the nation. Holidays have the ability to group influence, according to stable patterns of behavior, corresponding to the public relations morals and values.
The holiday is always optimistic life-affirming character; its content side is different, the expression of spiritual orientation. It is palpable enough centuries of continuity of spiritual values. With the development of civilization Holidays becomes a matter of official and with the approval of statehood as a form and controls the human community is also regulated. In the same way was the church. And both church and state is very strict care was taken to the festival of any size and content did not exceed the official limits. This system is still alive today. Special significance in celebrations takes its aesthetic component: sensual and emotional richness of content, expressive, expressiveness, illogic, entertainment, carnival items, theatricality. All these qualities have in common celebration with art, but do not identify with him. Celebration – a kind of border zone between real life and artwork. Holidays typology is diverse: national (national), religious, governmental, professional, family, etc. People holidays inherent natural, organic, samostiynost; public holidays has a high degree of protocol regulating expressed ideological orientation, religious Holidays are a reflection of some form of belief. There is a certain intimacy of folk and religious festivals, as in the Ethnic Culture Religion serves an important form of value orientation. But people's holidays may not be exhausted by religious, because include both elements of secular culture (carnival culture in the Middle Ages). There is a possibility of becoming a future state Holidays in the vernacular.
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