Days, warm nights, blooming flower beds, pleasing to the eye of vacationers. But nature is ready to make another gift and return warm days for a short time. Why summer was called summer when they meet Indian summer - you can find out from this article.
summer days
Summer comes every year. Mankind enjoys three beautiful months, basking in the rays of the gentle sun. But only a few think about why summer was called summer. The Indo-European stem leto translates as "time for the bright sun". June, July and August are really warm and long days. It is customary to relax and swim in natural reservoirs.
And everyone has heard the expression "The Babi age is short." Everything passes quickly. Summer gives impetus to life, and the subsequent cold snap reminds us that there are long dank days ahead, cold, sleet, frost. Everything is like in human life. This is how the well-known period of autumn flows, it remains to be sorted out!
Signs of Indian summer
The short summer, which returns to all regions of the country, lasts from a few days to 2-3 weeks. Comes only after three bright events:
- golden autumn;
- night frosts;
- cobwebs in groves, forests, parks.
Don't confuse Indian summer with warm days in September. It's just climate change. Usually, after a few cold days and the first night frosts, this miracle of nature comes. It is different in different regions. So, in Siberia, after light frosts in the last days of August (the first of September), Indian summer sets in for a week or two. In the Moscow region, it often takes place in early September. In the southern regions: in the Krasnodar Territory, the Rostov Region - Indian summer is expected in the first days of November. It is not clear why this wonderful period is called Indian summer.
Very often during this interval there is a second blooming of some types of field or garden flowers that bloom only once during the year. Sunny golden autumn comes without precipitation, with flying cobwebs, bright rays that give their warmth. In his dictionary, Dahl defined this time as the beginning of Indian summer - September 14, the day of Simeon the pilot. It can last until September 28, until the day of the Exaltation. It became a little clear why summer was called summer, but how summer warmth comes in the middle of autumn is unclear.
Signs of the peoples of the world
Every nation calls weather changes in its own way:
- Macedonians and Bulgarians call this period "gypsy summer";
- the Serbs call "Michael's or Martin's Summer";
- Americans - "Indian summer";
- Swedes - "Brigid's summer";
- the French - "Saint Denis summer";
- Italians - "the summer of St. Martin";
- the Swiss - "widow's summer".
The same term is given to weather changes by Western and Eastern Slavs, Germans. The literal translation from German of this phrase means "summer of old women", which causes discontent among older German women. Russian women are not offended by the word "babie" in any way, since in Russia women have long been called women. All women, on the contrary, love and wait for the Indian summer. Why this time of year is called so, we will find out right now.
Origins of the name
If we adhere to the meaning of the expression from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, then this combination is interpreted as the time of the warm sun, which allows you to walk under its rays, in peasant life it means the end of work in the fields, the female half solves her household issues, is engaged in weaving, needlework. This work was considered womanish, unworthy of the male population.
Everyone understands why summer is called "red". This means a beautiful period of the year. Even in ancient times they said "the girl is red", pointing to her natural good looks and beautiful appearance.
After a working day, the peasants gathered outside the outskirts for gatherings, sang songs, danced, listened to the accordion. The German people also associate Indian summer with weaving and yarn. Even nature is working at this time: spiders begin to weave their web, thin and almost transparent. It also resembles a cobweb in color gray hair in old women.
A bit of fantasy
There are mystical explanations for this concept. It is believed that it is a woman who can turn the season back by the power of her love spell. Another expression "Forty-five - a woman berry again" speaks of the flourishing of a woman. Nature bears fruit in gardens and kitchen gardens, thereby showing the woman's destiny. That is why they call Indian summer the period in mid-autumn.
The most serious justification for this phenomenon is given by weather forecasters. It is explained by the beginning of the action of a long anticyclone that affects nature. At this time, the soil does not completely freeze at night, and in the daytime the air does not warm up to the highest levels. Withering foliage gives off its warm energy into the atmosphere, which, rushing up, contributes to an increase in atmospheric pressure, thereby dispelling the clouds.
Whatever the reason, thanks to nature for the fact that for a short time it returns warm days, flowering plants, birdsong, which means a good mood. Therefore, it does not matter at all why summer was called summer. The main thing is that at this time I want to do good and spend time with loved ones.
