16 February - Friday!
Fix it! One of the holidays of the Slavic calendar, which was celebrated the day after the Meeting.
Following the saying "Prepare a sleigh in the summer, and a cart in the winter", the owners immediately after the Meeting in the morning took up early repairs of agricultural implements, calling this February day "Fixings".
Expelling Pochinki, the peasants remembered: the sooner you apply for farming, the more you will please the spring. Pull with the fixes until the real warm days of the real master is not stuck. Opening the sheds, the peasants figured: for what kind of work should one go ahead?
Worked together, with the whole family, finding the feasible work, both small and old: "In the repairs of the Grandfather there is a little light - repairing the harness of the summer and the 100-year-old plow". Repaired harness not without pride hung out in a conspicuous place - we, they say, are ready for plowing and sowing. And the housewives did not sit around idly: they cooked, washed, sorted things in chests.
There is an erroneous opinion, and it is mentioned in Pochinki that House in the night disturbs horses and can drive them to death. A housekeeper is a good housewife, not an enemy, but otherwise for what would Housekeeper in a new house from an old one be carried in a sovochke with coal from an old stove. Housekeeping is a ward for the home and not an evil one!
New Year on the lunar calendar is the longest and most important holiday in the Chinese (lunar) calendar. Festivals, festivities, timed to this holiday, last 15 days. It falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice, for the period between January 12 and February 19. Often the New Year is called "Chinese" according to the lunar calendar, because its celebration spread across Asia, and later on the world, from the Middle Kingdom. Moreover, in most countries celebrating this holiday, the "Chinese" New Year is a national holiday and a joyful event for representatives of all nationalities and faiths.
New Year's Eve dinner is the main New Year's tradition. And on the table should be as many dishes as possible. According to tradition, on a festive night at the table there are spirits of ancestors who are full participants in the celebration.
All subsequent days are accepted to visit with congratulations relatives and friends. Also during this period traditional mass celebrations are organized - costume dances and masquerade street processions.
1923 Expedition Howard Carter found a stone sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.