Not a day without holidays!

22 March - Thursday

Magpies, Larks
World Water Day
International Taxi Driver Day
Day of the Baltic Sea

1874 For the first time was played a game of tennis
1895 In Paris, the first in the history of the demonstration of the film
1951 The first television studio in the USSR was created

On the Larks day and night are measured. Winter ends, spring begins. This is one of the spring holidays, which was dedicated to the meeting of the Vernal Equinox Day, which was almost the main event in the life of our Slavic ancestors.
The Slavs everywhere believed that forty different birds fly from warm countries on this day, and the first one is a lark.
Larks are usually baked "larks", in most cases with outstretched wings, as if flying, and with tufts. Birds handed out to children, and those with a shout and a sonorous laugh ran to call larks, and with them spring.
Roasted larks were planted on long sticks and ran with them to the hillocks or planted birds on poles, on fence sticks and, knocking together in a pile, that there were forces shouting:
"Larks, arrive, take the Studenu winter, You bring the spring to the spring: Winter has bored us, All the bread has been eaten by us!"
After baked birds, they were usually eaten, and their heads were given to cattle or given to mothers with the words: "As the lark flew high, so that your flax is tall. What is my lark's head, so that the flax is too big? "
With the help of such birds on the Larks the family sowner was chosen. To do this, the lark baked a coin, a ray, etc., and men, regardless of age, took out a baked bird. To whom the lot fell, he also scattered the first handfuls of grains during the beginning of sowing.