Wedding ranks - roles distributed between guests at a wedding among the Eastern Slavs .
Composition
The bride and groom were likened to the prince and princess , the wedding itself - to the princely feast , because many wedding ranks were called like this:
- big boyars - close relatives and guests of honor;
- smaller ones are distant relatives and guests are simpler.
A friend was necessarily elected - often it was not just a merry fellow, but a healer able to save the wedding from damage; godmothers most often acted as matchmakers .
Tysyatsky - governor , the head of the wedding train - godfather or uncle of the groom.
The best man always had an assistant - half - friend .
A bride was supposed to be a bridegroom , a bridegroom - a penny . Their main role is to keep the crowns over the young during the wedding.
Often, a bedmaker was chosen from a bride’s kin for a wedding, whose task was to protect the bed of the young from the parents ’home of the bride from spoilage during a wedding feast in the groom’s house from spoilage. She sold the bed, sometimes getting a higher price than the bride “costed” to scold. Sometimes at the wedding they called the vampire girl (“elder”, “prompt”), who howled and wailed .
In pre-revolutionary times, the vanity of ordinary people and philistinism poured into wedding invitations of a military man of a very high rank (generals , etc.), who was actually an invited guest, without any special rights or powers that relied on the nature of his main activity , which led to the appearance of the humorous title of “Wedding General” (a person invited somewhere, as a remarkable and important person, to give significance to what is happening [1] ).
Notes
- ↑ General Dictionaries and Encyclopedias on the "Academician"
Literature
- Wedding Feast / Gura A.V. // Slavic Antiquities : Ethnolinguistic Dictionary: in 5 volumes / under the general. ed. N. I. Tolstoy ; Institute of Slavic Studies RAS . - M .: Int. Relations , 2009. - T. 4: P (Crossing the water) - C (Sieve). - S. 547–551. - ISBN 5-7133-0703-4 , 978-5-7133-1312-8.
- Wedding ranks // Russian Humanitarian Encyclopedic Dictionary . - M .: Vlados: Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University , 2002. - T. 3: P — Ya . - ISBN 5-8465-0037-4 .
- Wedding ranks // Sokolova A. L. Traditions of Russian folk weddings - M. , 2014 - 292 p.