UKRAINIAN RITES POST WEDDING CYCLE

Abstract

This article analyzes post wedding cycle Ukrainian ceremonial that accommodates not many rituals in comparisonwith pre- or wedding. Earlier, the 70-ies of XX century belonged post wedding cycle ritual removal of the coveringveil and kerchief, but for lack of time and lack of celebrations on the second day (and all my friends and family to see him), in the current year on the territory of the Middle Dnieper (m. Kyiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy region), he continuallyruns the first day of the wedding. And so this cycle is very little rituals. If you take a percentage, in practice post weddingceremonies take place today at 20% of weddings in the city and 90 % – in rural areas.

Since post wedding cycle is not fully reflected in the many studies by different authors, it is dedicated to its fullconsideration given scientific articles.

The main objectives of this research article:

1) make the analysis of the Ukrainian marriage ceremony in Ukrainian modern works of ethnographers and culturalstudies in the context of identifying them factual material concerning post wedding ceremonial Ukrainian wedding;2) a detailed examination of contemporary Ukrainian wedding post wedding ceremonial middle Dnieper region based on the author's own research. Regarding the first objective of this article, the current year is a very interesting dissertationyoung Ukrainian ethnographers.

This paper S.Kozyar Ukrainian family ritual. Milestones of human destiny weddings, funerals, highlighted theprogress of wedding and funeral ceremonies on the tail. Essence, attributes and symbols of wedding ceremonies. Aresome song samples.

I.Scherbyna in his study "Ukrainian wedding as ethno-cultural phenomenon" provides a comprehensive theoreticalanalysis of the semantics of Ukrainian marriage ceremony on materials Slobozhansky ritual- song tradition.

Very original analyzes Ukrainian rituals M.Mayerchyk in his work Ukrainian rituals of family cycle the light switch model".

L.Uzunova in the "Revival of traditional festivals and ceremonies in modern terms the cultural life of the Crimea"analyzed the historiography of the study of culture in the region and considered the features of migration that have influencedits formation.

L.Bondarchuk considers overall system ceremonial wedding, some microfields specific rituals Polish weddingand describes the principles of structured ritual paradigms in the "Ceremonial wedding vocabulary Polish language".N.Petrova researcher in his work "Ukrainian traditional wedding rituals of Odessa region" (2-80-ies of XX century).Summarized information derived from written sources and field data , using comparative historical analysis as oneof the important methods of typology, through which restored the structure of the marriage ceremony, to its local, regionaland phasic differences, ethnic characteristics studied Ukrainian wedding, found the effects of interaction with the traditionsof the Moldavians , Russians, Bulgarians, and other ethnic groups in the region.

Based Podolski-Volyn region trained research Z.Marchuk "Ukrainian Wedding: Genealogy rite", which based onfolk material (texts wedding songs, oral stories on wedding customs) the features of the origin and development of thewedding ceremony, disciosed his ties with various historical periods and cultures.

As for the theme function, poetics, symbolism Ukrainian wedding songs, this topic has considered in his paper"Wedding Song skirts: performance, poetics, symbolism" researcher S. Mahovska.

But the most interesting study of contemporary works, in my opinion, made in the I.Nesen "Wedding CentralPolessye ceremony: traditional structure and relict forms (mid XIX – XX). In this paper carefully considered adjacent toour study area Polessye, as a place of existence relic phenomena and ethnographic region most affected by the Chernobyldisaster and requires the most attention.

And the last of the modern scientific papers – a thesis Kharkov young researcher Victoria Bugaeva "Marriage asa phenomenon of Ukrainian culture: ritual and theatrical", which was defended September 26, 2013 in Kharkiv StateAcademy of Culture. In recent years, research has become important practice approach to family cycle ceremonies, includingweddings as a socioculturе phenomenon, because it is closely linked to the values and trends of modern society.

Wedding favor indispensable spokesman social life, her tastes images – a kind of marker of national culture. Thus, thestudy V.Bugaeva extremely devoted to the actual problem of the phenomenon in terms of Ukrainian wedding rituals andtheatrical Important and interesting ideas researcher consistently and logically deployed in the text of the thesis. OriginallyV.Bugaeva defines categories of research: traditions, rites, rituals, and theater and as a basis for artistic functioningof the marriage ceremony. The complexity and multiplicity of the object of research led to the use of multiple researchapproaches – primarily cultural and art.

It should be noted carefully assembled researcher factual material (appeal to our many years of experience inwedding agencies, conducting wedding festivals), the problem of interpretation which has long been at the time.

Thus, for the study of wedding ceremonies and weddings in general had a very broad source base. This testimonyof ancient writers, observing foreign travelers who were in the Ukraine, a special study of pre-revolutionary, Sovietand Ukrainian ethnographers. But there is a need to systematize the accumulated materials on wedding ceremonies allethnographic regions, zones, regions of Ukraine. For the author it is important to show reconstructed and structuredwedding ceremonies taking into account local peculiarities characteristic of the Middle Dnipro region, especially wherepost wedding ordinances covered deeply enough.

With the recent sentiments of the author appears quite logical question is why today the young Ukrainian bridesvirtually no hold on her wedding post wedding cycle of ceremonies?

This is due to the fact that young people : a) do not know how to do it, and b) do not want to do, and) live in thecity, and there are nice and colorful not spend d) promptly in the morning go for a honeymoon, and e ) no one to do theseceremonial, as all the guests had departed. The second part of the objective of this research paper is just to correct, consistentand clearly describe all ceremonial post wedding cycle Ukrainian wedding middle Dnieper region based on ourown field research of the author. A look these ceremonial follows.

1. Rite "covering young" there was always the traditional wedding and took the morning after the wedding night,in the house of the bridegroom. In Ukraine, most marriages (about 95% in 100 cases) after the wedding, the young boyhad to bring his young wife to the house of their fathers [11], and if well earned and has built his own cabin (in rural areas),or an apartment, or room (in the town), the wife brought it there. All honor a young boy and said of him that he wasserious, hardworking, and he earned himself the wedding. Only 5 % of marriages where the young had no huts or roomshe went to live with the parents of the bride. This guy is not respected, he shouted "adoptee", "going on to receivemother". But in some cases were young, hardworking guys – orphans, which killed his father. There is no youngabused and not abused. And this ceremony coverage has ancient roots, from about the fifteenth century. All ceremonialheld in a special room – "barn" where the wedding took place that night. It should be emphasized that this chamber, thatis a separate device to build houses in the villages especially in those families where the boys were born. When the familywere some of the girls, the parents did not care and knew that their daughter's wedding night will carry on their husbands.

After the wedding night there were only two options. The case is the first and very rare. Young was not a girl, awhite sheet, and the mother in the morning came the young and saw it. As soon as she hung this sheet in front of the hutfor mass inspection. The question is why it is no secret why not protect the bride? The answer lies on the surface. Thefact that the wedding knew in advance all, that all the village. And if the mother in law does not present a one hundredpercent proof that her daughter virgin, innocent people do not understand – decent demoiselle or not. Therefore, thequestion of chastity, fidelity, purity was Ukrainian families in first place in terms of education. When something is wrong the young are not protected, neither parents nor relatives or friends. A younger brother could even throw in a bride mud,crap, rubbish. Young was quickly gather belongings and flee to a nearby village, another town, or even in another province.And on her father's life will be hanging stamp – badly brought up their child. In the second case, where in-law cameinto the barn and saw a red sheet, it is with great joy hung it to view the whole village. Young while dressed in her head atransparent kerchief (symbol of virginity and girl) and mother in law, acquired before the wedding a special gift for daughterin law – white as milk shawl (symbol of a married woman) began with a young wedding game. It came from the backsideof the bride trying to remove transparent matter, and rejected young head. Then his mother came from the otherside and the young rejected his head the other way. The third time in-law head kissed the bride, and she no longer resisted,and his mother took off the veil and put her on his arm, or on a chair. After you have taken a white handkerchiefand put on the head of the youth. And for the first time hand bury handkerchief on the floor, have caught a second timeand this scarf worn on the head of the bride. Demoiselle again bury scarf. Mother caught the handkerchief again, thenkissed the bride and head dressed scarf behind. This wedding game ended. Young no longer trochanter head and fromthat moment it was impossible to call a word – "bride", but only "married " or "wife". This young white scarf was going tobe different from the unmarried girls. A hundred or two hundred years ago the young without the headscarf could noteven go outside. In modern times, this ceremony takes place on the first day of the wedding and is characteristic for boththe city and the village.