Ukrainians are sensitive about their new independence, their place in Europe, and how others see them. An old nation but a new state, they are a proud people who want the world to acknowledge their existence, to take them seriously, to recognize them as a European nation, albeit a middle-sized one (like France, they say), and to know their blue and yellow flag and their national anthem. Above all, Ukrainians want the world to know that they are not Russians. If you know something about Russia but nothing about Ukraine, stay silent and let the Ukrainians lead the conversation. They will tell you that Ukraine is the second largest state in Europe, its population is Europe's fourth largest, and it has the second largest standing army in Europe. S.V.Lapushenko
The Roots of Origin are the Roots of People The roots of our people go back to the remote epochs of ancient history. Scholars, from different spheres of knowledge-archaeologists, historians, etymologists, philosophers, art critics and anthropologists are diligently searching through eternity for evidence of who we are, where we came from and what became the invigorating base in which the ethnologically expressive tree of the Ukrainian culture took its roots. Our ancestors perceived the world in accordance with their ideas about the environment and its elements: the sky and the earth the sun, and the moon, night and day, lightning and thunder, rain, and wind, warmth and cold. Peoples’ relations with nature, their satisfaction for food, cloth¬ing, and shelter, their choice of place; to settle, their methods of defending themselves against hostile and dangerous forces, their collaboration in common entertainment, and their rituals, all created the cul¬ture. In the boundless scope of cul¬ture, special importance is attached to the way of life. Everyday life was a very im¬portant part of social life. Every day was guided by the common habits and norms belonging to а certain way of life. People protected and improved their ethnic world, and their own lives. The daily living environment created that subconscious base which formed the individual and public consciousness of our ancestors. The poetic images of folk songs and embroidery are closely related. What is pleasing and loved by nations always finds its expression through art. Embroidery is one of the most ancient kind of morals and manners in the culture of Ukrainian folk. With the help of embroidery an ordinary piece of home-spun linen can be turned into a work of art. Ornamented towels and clothes brighten up a rural dwelling. Ornaments and patterns were compiled with the aim, above all, to show philosophy. They are embroidered in magical, but at the same time brilliant sign sys¬tem of flowers, birds, crosses, сirсles, squares and zig-zags. The Ukrainian man’s outlook on such philosophical themes as the universe, life on the earth, birth, death, and the comprehension of one’s place and calling is revealed.
Ukrainians are sensitive about their new independence, their place in Europe, and how others see them. An old nation but a new state, they are a proud people who want the world to acknowledge their existence, to take them seriously, to recognize them as a European nation, albeit a middle-sized one (like France, they say), and to know their blue and yellow flag and their national anthem. Above all, Ukrainians want the world to know that they are not Russians. If you know something about Russia but nothing about Ukraine, stay silent and let the Ukrainians lead the conversation. They will tell you that Ukraine is the second largest state in Europe, its population is Europe's fourth largest, and it has the second largest standing army in Europe.
ВідповістиВидалитиS.V.Lapushenko
The Roots of Origin are the Roots of People
ВідповістиВидалитиThe roots of our people go back to the remote epochs of ancient history. Scholars, from different spheres of knowledge-archaeologists, historians, etymologists, philosophers, art critics and anthropologists are diligently searching through eternity for evidence of who we are, where we came from and what became the invigorating base in which the ethnologically expressive tree of the Ukrainian culture took its roots. Our ancestors perceived the world in accordance with their ideas about the environment and its elements: the sky and the earth the sun, and the moon, night and day, lightning and thunder, rain, and wind, warmth and cold. Peoples’ relations with nature, their satisfaction for food, cloth¬ing, and shelter, their choice of place; to settle, their methods of defending themselves against hostile and dangerous forces, their collaboration in common entertainment, and their rituals, all created the cul¬ture.
In the boundless scope of cul¬ture, special importance is attached to the way of life. Everyday life was a very im¬portant part of social life. Every day was guided by the common habits and norms belonging to а certain way of life. People protected and improved their ethnic world, and their own lives. The daily living environment created that subconscious base which formed the individual and public consciousness of our ancestors. The poetic images of folk songs and embroidery are closely related. What is pleasing and loved by nations always finds its expression through art. Embroidery is one of the most ancient kind of morals and manners in the culture of Ukrainian folk. With the help of embroidery an ordinary piece of home-spun linen can be turned into a work of art. Ornamented towels and clothes brighten up a rural dwelling. Ornaments and patterns were compiled with the aim, above all, to show philosophy. They are embroidered in magical, but at the same time brilliant sign sys¬tem of flowers, birds, crosses, сirсles, squares and zig-zags. The Ukrainian man’s outlook on such philosophical themes as the universe, life on the earth, birth, death, and the comprehension of one’s place and calling is revealed.