Until the last century, to give themselves Trinket children and young people - girls and boys alike - March 1 before sunrise. Trinket rope, made of two twisted threads of wool, colored in red and white, or black and white, represents the unity of opposites: summerand winter, heat-cold, light-dark cycle, fertility-sterility.
Braiding red and white flag is found in cord popular dress, at wedding tree, the ornaments junior at Sambra sheep and many other ancient customs. Romanian archaeologists have found prehistoric settlement in the Staging Cladovei, 8000 years old, river stones with traces of red and white paint. Interweaving of the two colors symbolize the genesisand regeneration of life.
An old woman, Dochia have a stepdaughter that hatred. One cold winter day, Dochia gave a very dirty clothes and asking her to wash the river becomes white as snow. As awash, clothes became more and more black. Ice cold and despair, the girl was crying when she appeared Martis, a young man who offered him a magic flower and advised her to return home. When the girl arrived home, Canvas was white as snow. Dochia old lady did not come to believe their eyes. Seeing red flower, girl caught in the hair, thought Dochia spring returned and left with a flock of sheep on the mountain. Climbing themountain, the weather was beautiful done so Dochia quit, in turn, the coats they wear.When he reached the summit, the weather turned into a blizzard and then showed Trinket: "See how bad it is to sit in cold and wet" spake he, "you, who you ordered your daughter to wash clothes in the river froze . Then he disappeared. Old woman alone on the mountain, came cold and sheep have been turned into stone. Since then, red and white symbolizes the struggle between good and evil, between winter and spring.
Now we are looking forward romanian March 1st to receive a gift from all the men I know, because penicillin was invented in the meantime!
