This relatively low tree is found inEurope, Asia and North America. Rowan ... Thin as a girl's waist, with bright red clusters of berries burning with scarlet fire against the background of white snow - this tree looks spectacular in summer, autumn and winter.
Perhaps that is why the mountain ash is so loved in Russia, where it grows almost everywhere - near houses, along roads, in deciduous and coniferous forests and forest plantations.
People love this tree very much. Rowan is mentioned in many folk songs and legends.
Этому дереву народная молва приписывает magical properties - it is believed that it can give a person the gift of prediction. Obviously, therefore, in some places the mountain ash is also called the “witch tree”.
Here it is - rowan.A thin twig with carved leaves can protect from other people's spells and protect against disease and witchcraft. Masters of wood painting from Khokhloma rarely manage without her images in their products.
Rowan leaves are attached to the shepherd's staff as a talisman that protects livestock from the evil eye and the attack of wolves.
Catholic priests and Old Believersmake crosses from its wood. Previously, the bowls of ships were sheathed from a mountain ash, and its logs were laid in the foundations of wooden churches and other religious buildings.
It is believed that the Savior of mankind, Jesus Christ, was crucified on a cross made of rowan, therefore another attribute is attributed to the rowan tree - to drive away death and disease from a person.
It is best to know the soul of any nationpopulating our land, helps folk song. It has been transmitted from generation to generation for centuries. It could come up with a simple peasant or worker, and sing - a gentleman or a priest. And vice versa, romances composed by venerable composers are picked up by ordinary people and eventually become folk art.
Собственно, сочинитель по-настоящему народной songs and does not pretend to have his name preserved for centuries. Words come from the soul, are born as a result of experienced deep emotional outbursts. Maybe this is why they find a response in the soul of another person, and with time a seemingly unpretentious work becomes a masterpiece of folk art. The above fully applies to many genres that have undergone folklore processing. Such is the song "Thin Rowan".
В 1864 году поэт-самоучка Иван Захарович Суриков wrote a plain poem about his beloved folk tree - mountain ash. At that time, the young man was only 23 years old, but for more than three years he had been married to an orphan girl from a poor class. What was the reason for writing the poem is unknown, but in its lines the pain of unrequited love and the inability to connect the hearts of the “oak” and the “rowan tree” is clearly read.
Unknown author put a poem onmusic, the song liking and in a slightly modified, folk version has reached our days. Until now, if at the feast they start singing, then somebody will surely tighten “Oh, curly rowan”, “Ah, this red rowan”, “Thin rowan” or another song that mentions this extraordinary tree.
The words "What is standing, swaying, thin mountain ash ..."More than once sounded from the mouth of famous folk singers Lyudmila Zykina and Nadezhda Kadysheva. The song was included in the men's repertoire - it is perfectly performed by Yury Gulyaev and Shura. No less beautiful, “Thin Rowan” sounds performed by a duet - Alexander Mikhailov and Taisiya Povaliy, as well as musical groups - the vocal-instrumental ensemble “Singing Guitars” and the Moldavian Vocal “Norok”.
It is interesting to listen as simple and uncomplicated.the melody in which the performer puts a piece of his voice and worldview acquires a new, distinct from others sound. Apparently, this is the secret of truly folk songs.
