What is meant by flowers and tapes in the Ukrainian wreath

Each floret and tape in the Ukrainian wreath has the value, the wreath is not only beauty, but also preserved

The nimbus weaved out of florets and herbs, decorated with bright tapes - one of the most ancient Ukrainian symbols. In one wreath there could be about 12 various flowers. Each flower or a blade meant that: a rose - love; a white lily - a symbol of purity and innocence; a cornflower - simplicity and modesty; squeal - independence; a call field - gratitude; monasteries - success, glory; a hollyhock - beauty, coldness; a peony - longevity; a camomile - the world, tenderness; an immortelle - health; a guelder-rose - a symbol of maiden beauty, a symbol of Ukraine.

Ukrainian wreath
The wreath was decorated surely with tapes of different flowers. Tapes measured on braid length, cut below a braid that to hide it. Most on the center knitted light brown - a symbol of the earth on both sides of which yellow - a symbol of the sun; behind them - light green and dark green - beauty and youth; blue and blue - the sky and water, give force and health. Further went orange - a bread symbol, violet - wisdom, crimson - warm-heartedness and sincerity, pink - abundance. White interwove only when its ends were embroidered by silver and gold (on left - the sun, on right - month). Not embroidered a tape it isn't connected, it was the symbol of memory of the dead. Girls, interwove in веночек poppy, tied up to it a red tape - a symbol of grief and a magichnost.
The orphan interwove into the spit and into a wreath blue tapes. And people at a meeting presented such ​​ the girl with gifts, bread, money, wished it to become happy and rich. The girl in gratitude gave to those people a tape from a wreath.

In Ukraine wreaths had solar symbolics. The girl in a wreath was associated with a rising sun. Also the nimbus is a symbol of glory, a victory, sanctity, success, power, the world, the sun, the power. And the nimbus meant chastity and maiden youth.


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