Information about the ethnic Russians

The ethnic Russians are descendants of Russian immigrants and belong to an ethnic group among the Eastern Slavs. Use the Russian language Russian, using the Slavic Kirillic alphabet, *** there are 33 letters, there are printed major holidays are Easter, Christmas, Baptism, etc.. Ethnic Russians mostly believe in Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christmas begins on January 7th. Just after the New Year, what follows is Christmas (Рождество), a favorite of ethnic Russians. The Orthodox Christmas festivities, collectively known as the "святки" (Christmas festival), last for two weeks from January 7 until the end of Epiphany. The day before Christmas, January 6, is known as Christmas Eve (сочельник), or Christmas Day in the West. On Christmas Eve believers fast all day and cannot break their fast until the evening. On the evening of Christmas Eve it is customary for believers and non-believers to eat the Christmas goose, which is essential for Christmas dinner. People fill the belly of the goose with apples, bread and oiled onions, add a variety of ingredients and roast it. The difference between handwriting and handwriting. The language belongs to the Slavic group of the Indo-European language family.

Traditional dress of the Russians

Men tend to wear silk slit robes and pants in summer, or white embroidered shirts and lantern pants, and octagonal hats; in winter, they wear leather coats and cotton coats, sheepskin shearling leather hats, and tall leather boots or felt boots. Women mostly wear short tops and short-sleeved, half-open-breasted, card-waisted, large-swinged embroidered or printed dresses in summer, or collarless embroidered shirts on top and large homemade white skirts embroidered with brightly colored patterns and floral motifs underneath; they mostly wear western-style tops or western-style skirts in spring and autumn, and wear brightly colored tweed hats with feathers inserted on top for decoration, and skirts in winter, with half-length leather coats, tall leather boots, and a Woolen scarf or leather hat. Men's and women's sweatshirt collar, cuffs and chest and other parts of the beautifully embroidered geometric or floral patterns, bright colors, strong contrast. Elderly people's clothing to maintain the traditional style of the former Soviet Union, most of the men wore uniforms, breeches, leather boots or shoes, but also to wear a split robe, crotch pants; women mostly wear collarless embroidered short clothes, wearing a self-woven cotton skirt, the waist tied with a floral belt, but also wearing a dress.

The headdress of Russian women is quite distinctive, and there is a strict difference between the headdress of young girls and that of married women. The headdress of a young girl is open at the upper end, with her hair exposed and worn in a long braid with brightly colored hair bands and small glass beads braided into it. Married women's headdresses must be tight and non-porous, that is, the hair is first combed into two braids, coiled on the head, and then tightly anti-braids wrapped in a headscarf or hat inside, otherwise it is considered impolite behavior.

The diet of ethnic Russians, in many ways, retained the traditional customs of early life in Russia, but at the same time was y influenced by the Han and other ethnic groups, the main food is their own baked bread,

side dishes are mostly Lebas Russian fried dishes. Russians have three meals a day: drink milk in the morning, eat bread smeared with butter; lunch is bread, vegetables; dinner is more sumptuous, more rice, fried vegetables, or grab rice, noodles and so on. The Russians love to drink alcohol and are good at making all kinds of food and drinks. The famous ones are baking bread and making beer. Russians call beer for "Bi red cabbage soup tile", homemade taste sweet, not like the general taste of bitter beer.

The Russians practiced freedom of marriage and freedom of love, but parents' consent was required for marriage. The Russians can intermarry with other ethnic groups. Traditional Russian weddings are very solemn, and the procedures and rituals are very complicated and complex.

Friends can only kiss each other on the cheek, the man can not kiss the hand of the unmarried girl, can only kiss the back of the hand of the married woman, only the elders can kiss the forehead of the younger generation and so on. When walking with the elderly, young people can not walk in front, men and women walking, men can not walk in front; in the banquet, men can not be in the women's seat before sitting; men may not wear gloves and other people to shake hands, see the elders or women, should bow, and so on the other side of the hand outstretched before the feasibility of the handshake ceremony.

Russians love to eat meat, but avoid eating horse meat, donkey meat, drinking wine can not be left-handed cup. When drinking soup, you must use a spoon, but not with the left hand to hold the spoon.