We are celebrating New Year Twice a year! New Year according to two calendars: the new one - Gregorian - and the old one - Julian. Old New Year - New Year according to the Julian calendar (“according to the old style”). Occurs on the night of January 13-14.
Why not? Unlike the New Year, this holiday is warm and relaxed. It prolongs the Christmas fun.
And, of course, Old New Year is the time to make dumplings and tell fortunes!
They tell fortunes on the night of January 13-14, not for life, but only for a year: what will fall into New Year's dumplings- so be it.
Dumplings with a surprise - very interesting dish. They are usually prepared for the Old New Year - this has already become a kind of Russian tradition associated with. After all, such dumplings are prepared primarily to tell fortunes about what awaits in the coming year.
Dumplings for the Old New Year with a surprise - the meaning of the surprise filling.
Orange - for pleasure
Peanuts - for a love affair
White thread - for a long journey
Ticket - for travel
Cherry - good luck
Peas - home peace
Walnut – health
Buckwheat – favorable and profitable news
Mushrooms - for a long and happy life
Big money - big win
Grain - to wealth;
Raisins - to great temptation;
The cabbage came across - the wife fell in love with her husband
Precious stone - to a new status
Caramel - for love;
Potatoes - for a promotion at work
Cranberry - for unexpected changes in life
Ring - for the wedding
Red pepper - unfortunately
Dried apricots - to joy
Bay leaf - to fame (career growth);
Honey - health
Coin - a prosperous year in material terms;
Carrots - for new acquaintances;
Torment - to suffer;
Meat - for well-being
White thread - long road(long and long journey);
Green thread - the road abroad
Thread with knots - for a difficult year
Black thread - a short and not very long trip;
Cucumber - for a strong man
Olive - for longevity.
Nut - immediately to two fans (admirers);
Pepper - thrill
Ground allspice – for “spicy” i.e. An eventful life, serious changes;
Button - for a new thing;
Millet - futile efforts
Rice - prosperity in the home
Sugar - sweet life(easy, favorable year);
Seeds - to new fruitful plans
Salt - to quarrels and failures (tears);
Capsicum peppers - for sexual pleasures
Cheese - to win
Cottage cheese - to new friends
Dough, or fish scales - to replenish the family;
Dill - to good health;
Beans - to replenish the family
Hazelnuts - for successful acquisitions
Bread - the year will be full and good;
Chain - strengthening family ties
A teapot in a dumpling is for gifts.
Tea bags - for super promotion
Black peppercorns - to friends (to new friendly relations);
Garlic - for a marriage of convenience
Apple - for a well-deserved reward
To believe or not to believe the meaning of surprises in dumplings for the Old New Year is an individual matter. Actually, how to decide whether to eat dumplings for the Old New Year or not. It is quite possible that you have your own surprises and interpretations of these surprises.
Based on materials from the Magnitiza website
The Old New Year is an original holiday (no one has this) and fun. Most people love it not for the feasts (which are already quite boring by this time), but for interesting traditions, and entertainment. These include fortune telling using dumplings. Sometimes this fun takes on a special meaning. If you carry it out regularly, and also write down what was predicted and to whom, then the realism of the predictions will become clear.
It seems that there is little point in dumplings with surprises. Yes, this is only until you perform the ritual correctly, with “feeling”, and erase it from your memory. The prediction is given on whole year. If you record it and then (on the next Old New Year) check it, you will find out a wonderful fact: everything came true exactly as predicted! Here are some recommendations for organizing reliable fortune telling.
We are preparing dumplings with surprises!
It is clear that you need to organize a treat, which will be a prediction. You need to make dumplings with a team of several people. You should not “put” the energy of only the “hostess” of the feast into the delicacy. This will not give a high probability of a "hit". It is necessary that the dumplings contain a “bouquet” of emotions, thoughts and desires. A The best way to do this is a joint effort.
Advice. Sometimes girls try to save time and give away store-bought dumplings per product homemade. This is, in principle, easy to do. But this will not give the same result as a dish prepared by yourself.
The energy will not be yours, but those of the people who sculpted them. This way you can introduce something alien into your destiny, something not ordained by fate. Therefore, it is better not to be lazy, but to sit down at the table and make your own dumplings for fortune-telling while having a cheerful conversation.
Actually, except Have a good mood, but pleasure from work, you will need special fillings. They should be taken care of in advance. Yes, and it would be good to write down what this or that filling of the fortune-telling dumpling means. Otherwise you will forget at the most crucial moment, when you need to make predictions!
The dough is made in silence, accompanied by pleasant music. Naturally, the meaning of fortune telling is in the filling. The dough is just an “envelope”. But when you knead it, you need (the one performing the operation) to slowly ask the Guardian Angel to join in the “fun.” You can’t even imagine how much the Higher Beings adore all sorts of jokes and adventures. Definitely, the result will not disappoint you.
Toppings for fortune telling on dumplings in 2020
What exactly to put in flour product, depends on the year when the fortune telling is performed. It is clear that you can use both millet and porridge to make the symbol of the coming year rejoice. This is roughly how they argue every time. Anything that could “offer” the sign of the coming year is also excluded from the list of products.
And here are the meanings of the fillings for dumplings with a “surprise”:
- Dill (any greens) – diseases are not terrible, they simply won’t happen.
- Coin - to wealth and stability.
- Beans - a huge profit, grain - it will come as a result of hard work, buckwheat - unexpectedly.
- A crust of bread - to the fulfillment of a secret desire (material).
- The thread is for the road, white is for the distant, blue is for the sea, green is for the cheerful, red for the romantic, black for the mourning.
- Ring - there will be a wedding.
- Sugar – contentment with life.
- Bay leaf - honor and achievements await (career, social activities).
- Apple - a calm year.
- Button - a lot of meetings and contacts.
- Raisins mean temptation for a man, and narcissism for a girl.
- Cabbage - you will find a mate for life.
- Carrots - a lot of pleasant surprises.
- Pepper - a stormy life, pleasant, but very risky events.
- Flour is an unfavorable sign; a person will suffer.
- Caramel - to a love interest.
- Cucumber - success in a specific matter.
- Walnut has many fans.
- Rice - a journey to the East.
- Millet - a trip to the West.
- Dough - pregnancy.
- Sour berry - love will remain unanswered.
- Garlic is a hard life.
Just keep in mind that the filling for fortune telling on dumplings should consist of more than just “prediction”. The product is added in such quantity that it cannot be determined. Otherwise according to appearance It will be clear what’s inside, and this is no longer fortune-telling, but a choice!
Dedicated to the Old New Year - this purely Russian phenomenon.
Did Lenin think, when introducing the global Gregorian calendar instead of the Julian calendar in Russia, that the Russians would not receive new holiday instead of the old one, and a holiday that lasts for half a month! Many people themselves do not understand why Christmas is now January 7, and not December 25, why the New Year holiday falls during the period of Lent, and why the Old New Year is needed in general. Traditions have been lost or mixed with modernity, what and how was celebrated even 100 years ago, few people know for sure, so let's relax. On New Year's Eve, I would recommend that even the most ardent business woman turn into a housewife and please her family with some surprise dish. For example, homemade dumplings with surprises.
My blog is about success, but there is no successful woman without a cozy home, fragrant food and the smell of the holiday.
January 14 (according to the old style it was the 1st) was always Vasiliev's Day, which was considered in Rus' a holiday of agriculture, and was of decisive importance for the entire next year. Then they did not invite the atheistic Santa Claus invented in the USSR, but simply after the Nativity of Christ they counted the harvest, wondered what the next harvest would be and next year for family. To do this, they cooked porridge from all the cereals available in the house, slaughtered a pig and... made dumplings. With surprises.
My grandfather’s name was Vasily, and his birthday was precisely January 14 (and in the old birth certificate - January 1, 1902, after 1924 the certificate was changed and issued with the date January 14, 1902). I don't remember in Soviet time whether the Old New Year was a day off, but I remember well that we were going to my grandparents’ place “for dumplings” on that day. And I remember well how once in childhood I got dumplings with black pepper. We didn’t really experiment with surprises back then and didn’t try to make a lot of exotic fillers. Usually they prepared one with pepper, the second with a coin. The rest of the dumplings were ordinary, with potatoes, cottage cheese, cabbage.
When I got older, we started experimenting with fillings, coming up with something new and exotic. Before I tell you what recipe my family uses to make dumplings, let’s talk about the fillings.
Fillings for dumplings with surprises. Meanings.
When the Internet appeared, I realized that experimenting with fillings for dumplings is not a whim or a conjecture, various “fun” surprise fillings have existed for a long time, they put threads, decorations, salt, and much more in dumplings. And each of these fillings means something.
Now, if you show your imagination and...
No, that's too much. Although it can exist as a visualization. But I will still write about the real fillings.
For example:
- Dumplings with cabbage mean money (that’s essentially it).
- Dumpling with cucumber - for good sex (this is apparently in shape).
- With red pepper - to chagrin, tears.
- But with black - on the contrary, to thrills, spicy.
There are whole lists in which, of course, there is much more fantasy than real background, but... I’ll share it for experimenters. I don’t think that in Rus' they made dumplings with oranges or caramels, although similar interpretations can sometimes be found online, but I won’t put such nonsense on the list. I will write only traditional, although not quite standard, options for surprise fillings.
- Peanuts - for a love affair
- Banana - for exotic pleasures
- Cherry - good luck
- Pea - to home peace
- Nail - for repairs or purchase of new equipment
- Walnut - to good health
- Buckwheat - to well-being and prosperity in the house
- Mushrooms - for a long and happy life
- Money, coins - to money, of course
- Wood (piece) - for a new home
- Spruce (fir branch) - this is your year, everything you wish will succeed
- Acorn - to an unexpected big surprise
- Grain - to abundance
- Raisins - to great temptation
- Strawberries - for unexpected changes in life
- Ring - for the wedding
- Coffee bean - hectic social life
- Dried apricots - to unexpected joy
- Bay leaf - to fame (career growth)
- Carrots - for reproduction (ideas, offspring, etc.)
- Meat – to well-being and stability
- White thread - to a long pleasant road (travel)
- Colored thread - for traveling abroad
- Thread with knots - for a difficult year, with obstacles
- Black thread - for a short and not very long trip
- Cookies - in inexhaustible bread and salt on the table throughout the year
- Button - for new things, in the wardrobe and in everyday life
- Millet - for hard work. which will give good results
- Rice - to prosperity and supplies for the house
- Fish - to a successful “catch” in all areas of life
- Sugar is a sign of the sweet life (easy, favorable year)
- Seeds - to bad gossip
- Paperclip - good news in the workplace
- Salt - to quarrels and failures (tears)
- Capsicum - for sexual pleasures...with a hint...
- Cheese – for winning and “skating in butter”
- Dill - to good sexual health
- Beans - to replenish the “stuff” in the family: it could be a child, or someone will acquire a museum-wife, a new home, new major acquisitions. That is, any addition to the house.
- Hazelnuts - for successful purchases for the home
- Bread - for a hearty, good year
- Chain - to strengthen family ties
- Black peppercorns - to new friends
- Garlic - to life's difficulties
- Skin - for a new fur coat
- Sorrel - to good health
- Apple - for a well-deserved reward
- Sour berries (such as cranberries, currants, bird cherry, mulberry) - to love without reciprocity
- Egg with rice - for offspring
To be honest, I don’t quite understand why you put something in dumplings that has a bad interpretation, but that’s the tradition! Although everyone decides what to follow and what not, what to leave and what to modernize. I personally would choose only the good ones from all the fillings!!!
You can, for example, put something different in each dumpling, not the same as in the others. And each dumpling will be unique in its own way. In this case, a list of all kinds of “surprise” fillings will be very useful to you. Yes, I recommend wrapping inedible surprises and paper in foil, and making everything approximately the same size and shape, otherwise it will be uninteresting to pull out the dumplings!
You can even be original for the New Year. If you haven’t written goals on pieces of paper yet, then you can put pieces of paper with goals and fantasies in dumplings instead of surprises. Just write them on paper not with a pen, but with a pencil, otherwise what you wrote with a pen will blur as a result of cooking. So, take out the dumplings and read the “forecast” for next year. Both tasty and healthy.
How to make dough for dumplings with surprises.
At the request of blog readers, I’m also adding a recipe for dough for dumplings - my favorite dish!
I’ll say right away that this is my grandmother’s recipe; as a child, I only helped her make dumplings, but I remembered the technology. Many are surprised how from such a lean simple test You get big fluffy dumplings. This is a mystery to me too. But no milk is added to the dough. neither an egg, it has only three components: flour, water and vegetable oil.
This recipe is especially good for those who decide to indulge in dumplings during the fasting period. Although, I repeat, my grandmother always prepared dumplings this way.
The flour must be white premium, other flour will stick worse. Vegetable oil maybe sunflower or olive, but not corn, flax, or rapeseed. I experimented, but it doesn't work.
Very little water is needed. Actually, for 0.5 kg of flour you need approximately no more than 100-150 g of water. The rest is butter (oil consumption is about 150 grams, not so much. I specially write a small portion, from this amount of dough I get about 30 dumplings, just enough for my son and me for 2 breakfasts. You can count as many as you need for family, guests and so on.
Then everything is very simple. Pour the flour sifted through a sieve onto a special large board or table (I like it on the table), make a depression in the flour all the way to the surface of the table and pour oil into it.
In principle, this is the basic amount of oil that we will need, then we’ll just add a little bit.
Then we just start kneading the butter and flour with our hands. After mixing, add a little water (about 1/2 cup), continue mixing the resulting mixture with water. Here it is very important not to overdo it with water; the optimal principle is “less is more.”
Also prepare a plate with flour, in which you will first “wet” your fingers while kneading, and then roll in the dumplings. Add butter, a teaspoon at a time, to the dough obtained after adding water. They added - they interfered, they added - they interfered. The dough should be slippery so that you can feel its softness and elasticity directly with your fingers. It should be such that your fingers do not stick to it.
I won't explain it more precisely. Since childhood, my grandmother repeated to me that I can’t feel the dough, my hands are not the right ones, and so on... The installation was driven so rigidly that I lived for more than 20 years with the conviction that the dough is beyond my control, I don’t feel it, I don’t took it. And I tried the most different recipes dough, and all the time it turned out to be some kind of mess.
Memories of youth. It’s not for nothing that I wrote about how you can feel like a housewife. There was a period in my life when I was defending my diploma, there was practically no time to earn money. And at home there was only a bag of flour, a bag of potatoes and some frozen fruits and vegetables left over from the winter. There was no more money or food. And for almost two months I fed my son only dumplings in the morning and evening (during the day he ate kindergarten). Several years have passed. I began to stand in the stove less and less often, I’m a business girl, Christmas tree sticks. 🙂 And one day my son said sadly: “Mom, what kind of dumplings did you make! It was the happiest time of my life! I’ve never eaten so many dumplings before!”
Oh, these! It’s ironic how a difficult period in my life turned out to be so joyful for my son. And it was during that period of many days of practice in making dumplings that I felt it. how to do it correct dough! Constant repetition led to the acquisition of skill. Now I already intuitively feel when the dough is ready and when you still need to work with him.
There are people who roll out a large sheet of dough and use a glass to cut out circles for dumplings... This, of course, is an option, but often conditions do not allow having a large table, and such rolling takes more time. I do the same here. like my grandmother, who loved to cook everything quickly, energetically, and saving as much time as possible.
I tear off a small piece from the dough, make a “sausage” out of it, then cut the sausage into small pieces, and roll out each piece. I don’t even use a rolling pin, I do it with an ordinary thick glass (blue in the photo) - it takes up very little space and effort, and you don’t need to make large “rolling” movements. Right there in the photo you can see a cup of water and how much water was used for the dough, less than half a cup.
While I make the dough, the filling ripens along the way. We usually make a variety of fillings: cherries, cottage cheese, strawberries, cabbage, but most of all my son loves dumplings with potatoes, so today our filling looks like this: crushed boiled potatoes mixed with fried finely chopped onion.
For the specified amount of dough, it is enough to boil one large potato and fry one onion.
Yes, I put pepper in at least one of the dumplings and a coin in the other (my child really likes this).
Of course, before putting the coin in the dumpling, it is better to boil it. And place it not alone, but among the filling, so that it is not so noticeable.
What’s remarkable is that Temchik always gets the coins and black pepper... Probably this is because every time before putting on the dumplings I think about how there will be no surprises...
Although life's surprises are a good thing. The main thing is that our surprises do not cause inconvenience to others. Therefore, if you invite guests to dumplings with surprises, warn them to be more careful and take care of their teeth and stomachs. After all, it’s unpleasant if, for example, a ring instead of a finger ends up in your stomach...
Then I put the finished dumplings in the freezer for at least half an hour. I boil water and throw it into boiling water. Cook, stirring, until it floats completely, but the main thing is not to overcook.
Dumplings can be topped with sour cream, homemade mayonnaise sauce, sometimes even just soy sauce I water or sprinkle with herbs if they are not sweet. If the dumplings are sweet, you can add cherry juice or sprinkle with sugar.
So I’ve shared with you my favorite recipe for my son’s favorite dish. But... classics are classics, and you can put something in dumplings that will be connected not just with abstract things. but also with the specific business you are doing. I’m a networker, and I came up with this form of school for my organization (more precisely, an event aimed at uniting team spirit): joint sculpting of dumplings! They sit, sculpt, communicate, fill dumplings with objects that can be used to try to predict new developments in their business. After all, you don’t have to put edible fillings, you can have fun and put something inedible, and here the flight of imagination can be limitless.
Show your imagination! If you are not a networker, figure out what you can put in dumplings for representatives of your profession. In the meantime, I’m offering surprises for networkers.
What to put in surprise dumplings:
Of course, filling the stomachs and emptying the wallets of the population in new year holidays should please networkers with a colossal opportunity to both increase the turnover of products for normalizing weight, restoring digestion, and contribute to the influx of new business partners. Try to “tell fortunes” using dumplings in this way: what awaits you next year.
- Coin - of course, for a financially successful year, for check growth
- Precious stone - to a new status
- Mushrooms - to the growth of structure
- Pomegranate seeds - to a large number clients
- Chain - to a new educational cycle of schools
- Multi-colored threads - to the discovery of new regions.
- Bracelet - to become an even more powerful sponsor
- Element of packaging of the company's products - to increase trade turnover
- Cones - to new methods of work
- Spring - for super-promotion of your site
Suggest what else? Let's dream up some surprises that we can put in the dumplings together.
Push the buttons social networks- this is for money!
There is another holiday on the horizon - the Old New Year, which got its name in connection with the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The Old New Year is not celebrated as loudly as the New Year itself, but they still remember this day and try to spend it in a festive way.
One of the most interesting activities in festive night- This various kinds fortune telling and predictions, because since ancient times it has been believed that the night of the Old New Year is unusual and filled with various mystical events.
To celebrate, you can prepare various treats, such as dumplings with surprises, the meaning of which can be interpreted depending on what filling you get. Making dumplings with predictions is a good option combine delicious treat with fortune telling and try your luck and fate. However, it should be remembered that predictions do not mean that this will happen for the rest of your life. Predictions only tell you what to expect in the year.
Dumplings can be made with edible fillings, as well as with inedible fillings. Only, when serving such a treat, you should warn guests in advance that the dumplings are unusual and contain a surprise. Maybe not all products are ideal as a filling for dumplings and do not go well with sweet dough. But you don’t have to eat a dumpling with a prediction; you can simply pull out a dumpling and get your prediction. Well, in order not to remain completely hungry, you should still make dumplings not only with surprises, but also with ordinary fillings, like cottage cheese or Varnier. So, what is the significance of surprise dumplings?
The meaning of edible fillings
Orange jam - for pleasure and abundance
Walnut - to good and strong health
Raisins - to temptations and temptations
Dried apricots - for joyful events
Honey also symbolizes excellent health
Potatoes - for career growth
Cucumber - for meeting a strong man
Cottage cheese - acquiring a true friend
Bread - to a good harvest, satiety
Garlic - for marriage for money or other benefits
Apple - to reward for work
Cheese - winning the lottery
Fish scales - to add to the family
Carrots also portend the arrival of a baby in the family
Bay leaf - to fame and promotion at work
Caramel - for love
Cabbage - for marital ties
Buckwheat - good news
Red ground pepper- to bitter events
Meat - for financial well-being
Peanuts - for love affairs and adventures
Grain - to wealth
Mushrooms for longevity
Peppercorns - for new and spicy sensations
Rice - good relationships in the house
Seeds - for the implementation of plans
Cherry - for luck and good fortune
Capsicum peppers - for sexual adventures
Dill - good health
Salt - for tears, failures
Millet - futile troubles
Cranberry - for big life changes
Sugar - for a sweet and happy life
The meaning of inedible fillings
When serving dumplings that contain inedible surprise fillings, you should warn everyone to bite the dumplings carefully. After all, a swallowed button or ring is not a favorable ending to the holiday. In addition, often, sharply biting a dumpling with an inedible filling can break a tooth or choke. Therefore, predictions are predictions, but caution is still worth observing.
Ring - for the wedding
Button - for buying a new one
Black thread - for a short trip to nearby countries
White thread - for a long and long journey
Green thread - trip abroad
Coin - for money
Chain - strong family ties and good family relationships
Dumplings with a surprise, the meaning of which can now be deciphered, are not only a treat for the table, but also interesting entertainment
Why not? Unlike the New Year, this holiday is warm and unfussy. It prolongs the Christmas charm and allows those who are fasting to enjoy holiday dishes. In addition, it has a second practical component - through the TV box, and you can see all the missed New Year's programs and concerts with a sober head. If you celebrated the New Year with friends, this holiday can be dedicated to your family. And vice versa. In a word, a second chance so beloved by the Russian people. And of course, Old New Year is the time to make dumplings and tell fortunes!
In Russian tradition, on the evening of January 13, it was customary to set the table generously and abundantly. Unlike Christmas, exclusively family holiday, it was customary to visit each other, sing carols and treat themselves in every house. People made every effort to outdo their neighbors. Served on the table jellied fish, partridges, homemade sausage, pancakes, stuffed bird, pies, baked pork. “Rich” kutia became one of the main dishes. They did not spare nuts, dried apricots and raisins for her.
The belief says that how you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it. And whatever comes across in the New Year’s dumplings, so be it. They tell fortunes on the night of January 13-14, not for life, but only for a year. To believe or not to believe dumplings is up to the owner. The main thing: do not forget to thoroughly rinse the “fillings”, and also warn guests that the dumplings contain surprises, in order to avoid broken teeth and swallowed buttons.
Subtleties of cooking dumplings
The main fillings for dumplings are cottage cheese and potatoes with fried onions. But in fact, they can be filled in so many different ways that it won’t even come to mind: from mushrooms to oranges. With cheese, cherries, peas, fish, tomatoes, raisins, dried apricots, shrimp in the Japanese version. Eggs are not added to the dough for dumplings. An exception is made only for sweets. fruit fillings, and then only yolks are taken.
If you are going big company and intend to stick a lot of dumplings, place them on a towel sprinkled with flour and cover so that they do not dry out. When dumplings are thrown into the pan, make sure that they float freely and do not stick to each other. Otherwise, the dumplings will tear, the filling will spill out and settle at the bottom of the vessel. Do not cover the pan with a lid either - you risk boiling down “your destiny” and not seeing any surprises.
Serve the finished dumplings hot - it tastes better. And if it has cooled down, sprinkle with warm milk and heat over low heat. 
Fillings meanings
And now the most important thing - the symbols of various Old New Year's dumplings fillings:
Orange - for pleasure
Peanuts - for a love affair
Cherry - good luck
Peas - home peace
Walnut – health
Buckwheat – favorable and profitable news
Mushrooms - for a long and happy life
Big money - big win
Grain - to wealth
Raisins - to great temptation
If you get cabbage, it means money, and in the old days they used to say, “When you get cabbage, the wife clings to her husband.”
Caramel - for love
Potatoes - for a promotion at work
Cranberry - for unexpected changes in life
Ring - for the wedding
Red pepper - unfortunately
Dried apricots - to joy
Bay leaf - to fame (career growth)
Honey - health
Coin - a prosperous year in material terms
Carrots - for new acquaintances
Torment - to suffer
Meat - for well-being
White thread - long journey (long and long journey)
Green thread - the road abroad
Thread with knots - for a difficult year
Black thread - a short and not very long trip
Cucumber - for a strong man, good sex
Nut - immediately to two fans (admirers)
Pepper - a thrill
Ground allspice – to “spicy”, i.e. an eventful life, major changes
Button - for a new thing
Millet - futile efforts
Rice - prosperity in the home
Sugar - sweet life (easy, favorable year)
Seeds - to new fruitful plans
Salt - to quarrels and failures (tears)
Capsicum peppers - for sexual pleasures
Cheese - to win
Cottage cheese - to new friends
Dough, beans, or fish scales - for a new addition to the family
Dill - to good health
Hazelnuts - for successful acquisitions
Bread - the year will be full and good
Chain - strengthening family ties
Black peppercorns - to friends (to new friendly relations)
Garlic - for a marriage of convenience
Apple - for a well-deserved reward
What else to tell fortunes
In addition to dumplings on New Year's Eve Ancient Rus' guessed with porridge. There's nothing stopping us from doing it today. After removing the foam, our great-grandmothers looked at the porridge - if it was dark and full, there would be happiness, a harvest, and a talented daughter. If the porridge is small and white, there will be trouble. Good porridge They ate it for breakfast, but the bad ones were thrown into the river.
It is interesting that the Old New Year is celebrated not only in Russia, but also in other countries. Naturally, this tradition is still preserved in the territory former USSR- in neighboring countries. In Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova and Belarus they continue to celebrate the New Year twice. The same thing is happening in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Georgia.
In addition, there is a tradition of celebrating the old New Year in Serbia and Montenegro, since the Serbian Orthodox Church, like the Russian, continues to live according to the Julian calendar. Serbs call this holiday Serbian New Year. The Old New Year is celebrated in Macedonia and Switzerland. Or rather, in some of its German-speaking cantons. Like us, these are traces of popular rejection of the transition to the Gregorian calendar (this transition in Protestant Switzerland took place in the 17th-18th centuries).
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