All about rowan, a brief description for children. Matinees have become more frequent, throwing handfuls of silver
A story about rowan for children 8 - 12 years old
Children of primary school age about the beneficial properties of rowan
Rowan - a talisman of happiness and health
Egorova Galina Vasilievna.Position and place of work: teacher of home education, KGBOU "Motyginskaya comprehensive boarding school", Motygino village, Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Description of material: This story is written for children of primary school age 8 - 12 years old and just adults. This material may be useful and interesting for primary and secondary teachers. This story can be used in thematic classes for children in grades 2 - 5, or for reading with the family at their leisure. The story briefly summarizes information about the beneficial properties of rowan.
Target: Forming an idea of the beneficial medicinal properties of rowan through a story.
Tasks:
- educational: talk about the beneficial and healing properties of the bush;
- developing: develop attention, memory, imagination, speech, vocabulary, curiosity;
- educational: cultivate interest in studying the medicinal properties of rowan and in the surrounding world; instill a love for nature and a desire to protect it.
Content.
In autumn we admire the varied colors of nature. Everything around turns yellow and red, delighting our eyes with rich autumn colors. And the beauty of the rowan tree is especially beautiful at this time of year, about which many poems and folk songs have been written.
Rowan has been known as a food plant since ancient times. Even during the times of Kievan Rus, the Slavs ate pickled rowan berries with honey.
It was the Slavs who noticed that if rowan berries, collected after the first frost, are added to baking dough, the product will acquire a unique piquant taste.
And housewives noticed that if you put rowan branches in a vessel with water, it will not spoil for several months.
In Rus' it was believed that rowan has magical powers and can drive away evil spirits. Therefore, in many houses, rowan branches were even nailed to the walls as a talisman and protection against damage and the evil eye. They hung large bunches of berries on the entrance doors and gates so that evil spirits could not enter the home. It was believed that the rowan tree could heal a person from many diseases. Therefore, in the summer, in the old days, sick children were placed under rowan trees for healing. Rowan branches were nailed to the doors of houses on the eve of Ivan Kupala, as a talisman of happiness, good luck and health. And now residents of villages and towns are trying to plant rowan bushes near their houses.
In Rus', homemade sweets were made from rowan berries mixed with sugar for the rich. Over time, it turned out that rowan fruits help with many ailments: vitamin deficiency, dysentery, cholelithiasis, rheumatism, anemia. Rowan is a natural remedy that can feed, heal, and delight the eye with its beauty. Rowan berries are used not only in medicine, but also in the food industry. For children, you can dry rowan berries by sprinkling them with sugar. This will be a tasty, natural and healthy treat. Rowan fruits can not only be dried, but also frozen, soaked, prepared in the form of juices, purees, jams, and dry rowan powder.
Our beautiful mountain ash is so wonderful and beautiful!
Educational game hour "Rowan" for elementary school
Author Lyapina Vera Valerievna primary school teacher MBOU Secondary School No. 47 SamaraDescription The scenario of an extracurricular activity is intended for educators and primary school teachers, educators for extracurricular work and extracurricular activities of junior schoolchildren.
Target Organization of leisure time for students. Acquaintance with the traditions of the Russian people and the peoples of the world.
Tasks:
- introduce children to the history of the Rowanberry holiday
- expand children’s horizons about rowan;
- instill cognitive interest in younger schoolchildren;
- cultivate a caring attitude towards nature;
- develop logical thinking, cognitive abilities and memory of students.
Progress of the event
Leading
Good afternoon guys! Today I propose to talk about a wonderful plant that is a decoration of the autumn season. Guess what kind of plant this is?
Autumn has come to our garden,
The red torch was lit.
There are blackbirds and starlings scurrying about here.
And, noisily, they peck at him.
(Children's answers)
Well done! Of course it's rowan.
I took a walk in the park
I found out where the dawn grows.
I looked up - she
It became visible to me immediately!
The berries burn brightly,
They are looking at me!
What a wonderful picture? -
This tree is a rowan!
pupil
In autumn, near the rowan tree
There is a holiday - name day.
Name days are something like people's birthdays,
I invite all my friends to visit the rowan tree.
Leading
On September 23, our ancestors celebrated the day of Peter and Paul Fieldfare (they said that the tree celebrated its name day). “On Peter’s day in summer, eat strawberries, and on autumn, rowan,” people said.
By this day, rowan berries were ripening in the middle zone, and at night there were already frosts, from which the bright rowan berries lost their bitterness.
Rowan is a symbol of happiness and peace in the family.
student
(L. Korotaeva)
Gently strokes the rowan bush
Autumn with a wet hand:
Berries red rubies
And a swarm of crimson leaves.
The rain drips incessantly,
And streams run down
Into a puddle under an old rowan tree.
Knock out the bubbles
Drops. Everything in the puddle is in motion.
Looks at autumn: “Only ripples.
Where is my reflection in her?
Made such a mess.
Come on, stop pouring, rain,
Make way for the sun.
Draw me, artist.
The background is rowan behind."
Leading
Rowan is a very beautiful word. It comes from the word “pockmarked” - “speckled” or “rough, uneven”.
People call mountain ash differently. Some people say “winter berry” - only after frost does it become tasty.
pupil
(N. Shumov)
What kind of berry is that turning red?
When it's already cool
And autumn rushes at full speed,
Sweeping leaves from yards?
She is still bitter and knitting...
But only snow will fall on the ground,
The frost will not hit you lightly
And the river will be covered with ice:
It already tastes different...
And the birds, as if understanding,
Frozen pellets peck
In winter, reddened mountain ash.
Leading
Others call it “bird catcher.” Rowan was used to catch birds as bait.
student
(M. Borina)
The mountain ash has palms
Kissed by the rains.
Flame berry crumbs
On the branches and under your feet.
The young girl is having fun -
A flock of lively sparrows.
The wind blows from the left, from the right,
And she is faithful. Simple...
The beauty has care -
Feed the feathered guests.
And I want to greet them.
The rich man prepares a feast for them.
The rowan tree has bright beads,
Is it a princess, a princess?
Gentle winds swirl
Nearby, not without interest.
There is a path near the mountain ash.
Whoever passes will say thank you.
For warmth and good disposition.
There is no one more beautiful today.
Leading
I suggest playing the game "Rowan and Birds"
Outdoor game "Rowan and Birds"
Children are divided into two teams: one team is “rowan berries”, and the other team is “birds”.
Children - “rowan berries” hold a red cardboard circle in their hands or a rope is attached to the red cardboard circle, and the circle with the rope is hung around the neck like a medal.
Teams of children line up in two lines and stand opposite each other in different parts of the room or playground.
The bird team says these words:
“The wind suddenly blew stronger,
I blew the berries off the rowan tree.
The wind blows the berries
It's like he's playing with a ball. »
The rowan berries team answers:
“These berries are flying,
They don’t want to touch the birds’ beaks.
Berries quickly, quickly,
The birds will have more fun. »
After these words, a team of birds catches a team of rowan berries. “Rowan berries” try to run away from the “birds” and reach the place where the “birds” were. In this place, the “rowan berries” are safe and the “birds” cannot catch them.
Catching “rowan berries” lasts for a period of time, for example, 1 or 2 minutes, and then the whole game is repeated again.
Leading
Well done! The berries are good, and the birds are good too!
Still others say: “the lot of the bull” because of its color, to which bulls react.
This tree grows in many countries: Russia, Europe, Asia, North America.
The berries contain many useful substances: iron, iodine, copper, and manganese.
But there are several holidays dedicated to the mountain ash and they are celebrated not only in our country, but also in other countries.
On September 23, branches with fruits were tied into bunches and hung under the roofs of houses.
Housewives bake pies with cabbage, meat, and lingonberries.
In the old days, in some regions of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, rowan holidays took place four times a year - once per season. All rowan holidays were accompanied by a special ringing of bells, which was popularly called “rowan”.
student
Autumn bells of Russia
Floating over my side
When the skies are bright blue
The fields have settled down to rest...
And at this wonderful time,
We summarize our year's work,
In those bells there is support for the ancestors,
That ringing is called Ryabinov.
We decorate houses with rowan
The fruits will burn in the sun,
Let's play happy weddings,
The rowan tree is for us to look out the windows.
Rowan ringing from the bell towers
Four times every year
Autumn - prayed with labor,
The roads all lead to the temple.
Leading
Our great-grandmothers knew about the ability of rowan to be a talisman against the evil eye and damage. For this purpose they made their own beads. In villages they were worn all year round until new berries appeared. Then they made new ones and burned the old ones.
pupil
I see a slender rowan tree in the yard,
Emerald on the branches in the morning at dawn.
Lots of red berries
Ripe and beautiful
Hanging in clusters
Their outfit is beautiful.
Gather a string of berries for the soul,
Rowan beads are very good!
Leading
People have always believed that a rowan planted in front of a house will protect the house from unkind people.
When the rowan tree blooms, the whole tree is white. People call the nights when it blooms “rowan nights.”
The Russian people have this legend:
One day, the daughter of a rich merchant fell in love with a simple guy, but her father did not want to hear about such a poor groom. To save his family from shame, he decided to resort to the help of a sorcerer. His daughter accidentally found out about this, and the girl decided to run away from her home. On a dark and rainy night, she hurried to the river bank to the meeting place with her beloved. At the same hour the sorcerer also left the house. But the guy noticed the sorcerer. In order to take the danger away from the girl, the brave young man rushed into the water. The sorcerer waited until he swam across the river and waved his magic staff when the young man was already climbing out to the shore. Then lightning flashed, thunder struck, and the guy turned into an oak tree. All this happened in front of the girl, who was a little late to the meeting place because of the rain. And the girl also remained standing on the shore. Her slender figure became the trunk of a rowan tree, and her arms—branches—stretched out towards her beloved. In the spring she puts on a white outfit, and in the fall she sheds red tears into the water, sad that “the river is wide, you cannot cross, the river is deep, but you cannot drown.” So there are two lonely trees standing on different banks, loving each other. And “it’s impossible for a rowan tree to move to an oak tree; apparently, an orphan’s eyelids can swing alone.”
There is a song based on this legend. Let's listen to it.
The song "Thin Rowan" sounds. Words by I. Surikov, folk music.
Leading
Rowan serves people faithfully. Any crafts made from its bark and wood give a person good luck and success, and protect from evil. For example, to speed up the recovery of a patient, place a sprig of rowan at his bedside. And the same twig placed at the bedside of a healthy person at night will ward off unpleasant dreams.
Traditionally, from this day they began to brew rowan kvass, which helps fight colds and has antipyretic and laxative properties.
Rowan berries are used in the food and confectionery industries. Rowan is used to make jam, marshmallows, sweets, and tinctures.
It has been on the menu of Russians for a long time. It is good with sugar and dipped in honey, pickled and dried. It was believed that rowan berries, especially those touched by frost, mixed with flour and honey, baked in the oven, had the same pleasant taste as sweets made from them in sugar.
The beauty of the mountain ash began to be understood a very long time ago. “Rowan berry motifs” have long been included in the embroidery patterns of craftswomen.
Shirts, tablecloths, and towels were decorated with bright patterns of rowan branches.
And painting on wood! The same famous Khokhloma painting that uses only black, gold and red colors! What, if not rowan branches, just come off the hand of a craftsman, as if alive, decorating wooden utensils and toys!
In artistic creativity, the rowan, like the birch, is a poetic symbol of Russia.
Student
Winter has bouquets of snowflakes,
Like foliage, frosty patterns.
And only bright red rowan
Argues heatedly with infinitely white.
Snowstorms are no problem for her.
And the winds will not hide her fire.
On a huge sheet of snow
Small drops of scarlet blood.
An old raven, wise in life
Will not understand the natural riddle -
Why don't your brushes fade in the cold?
Are these berries bittersweet?
Apparently summer wasn't enough for them,
And autumn died away quickly,
And they burn with furious intensity
In December there are rowan sparkles.
Game "Collect a rowan branch"
Matinees began to pour in handfuls of silver more often. And the rowan tree in the dark thicket preserved the bounty of summer.
Rowan is a resident of forest clearings, edges and river urema, but from time immemorial the Russian people wanted to bring this tree closer to themselves. They planted it in front of windows in the front garden, near the hedge in the garden, on roadsides and in parks. Perhaps the custom of planting mountain ash near your home dates back to those ancient times when people believed in the magical power of the tree. In many places in Russia, even in the last century, there was a custom when building a new house to plant young mountain ash next to it. Rowan was supposed to protect the house from all sorts of machinations of evil spirits. Northern peoples assigned the role of a soothsayer to the mountain ash. One of the heroines of the Karelian-Finnish folk epic “Kalevala” teaches her daughter-in-law:
Protect with great diligence There are rowan trees in your yard. They are good, rowan trees. Their branches are good, the greenery on the branches is good, and the fruits are even better. Through them the maiden learns, the defenseless one learns, how she lives - according to her taste, or according to the desire of her husband.
Throwing rowan branches into the fire, they wondered about the intentions of people who had arrived from afar. Another heroine advises her daughter:
Daughter, dear little one, Put a rowan on the fire, Set fire to the beauty of the trees; If blood spills in a stream, They will come to war against us; If water flows, then we will remain in peace.
Old beliefs have long been forgotten, but people continue to plant rowan near their houses, and not for its magical power, but for its modest, but such touching beauty. But rowan is good in all seasons! It is beautiful in early spring, when young light green leaves with a clear carved pattern barely bloom on it. Light and bright, it stands in the early summer in a white boil of fragrant flowers. You can’t take your eyes off it in late autumn, when ripe crimson berries become a bright decoration of its branches.
It has long been noted that when the mountain ash begins to bloom, real summer warmth sets in. It is popularly called “rowanberry warmth”. At this very time, rowan flowers generously provide bees with pollen and nectar. And since the rowan was always in front of the peasants, they involuntarily noticed: “If the rowan blooms brightly, there will be a lot of oats,” “If the rowan blooms well, it means a flax harvest.” And when the rowan berry ripened and its clusters glowed with ruby flashes in the yellow lace of foliage, they concluded: “There are a lot of rowan berries in the forest - the autumn will be rainy, but if there are few, it will be dry.”
Many beautiful and imaginative riddles about the mountain ash were composed by the people. “Under the tier, tier hangs a zipun with a red garus.” This riddle was invented in the old days, when zipuns made of homemade cloth, embroidered with garus (dyed wool thread), were ordinary peasant outerwear. And perhaps this riddle was invented by a master embroiderer who sat on gloomy autumn days at the window, behind which clusters of rowan berries hung, with her needlework. But then the leaves fell, many trees lost their beauty, but not the mountain ash.
“The dress was lost, but the buttons remained,” the needlewoman could say. Perhaps this is how a new riddle about the mountain ash was born. And how many songs about the mountain ash people have composed - it’s impossible to count them all. In other years, bright clusters of rowan berries hang on the branches until deep winter. People say: “In September there is only one berry, and that bitter rowan!” But this is in September, but later, when the frost hits it, it becomes sugary. Various forest animals like to feast on rowan berries. Whom you will meet in autumn and winter on rowan trees laden with fruits. There is also solid upland game - hazel grouse, black grouse and wood grouse, and smaller birds - bee-eaters, waxwings, bullfinches and field thrushes.
Since autumn, rowan berries have been prepared for future use. In the Yaroslavl region, after the first frost, bunches of rowan were torn from the branches and laid in the hayloft in rows, alternating a layer of hay with a layer of rowan. Throughout the long winter, the berries remained fresh, did not rot, did not dry out or freeze. You could make jam from fresh berries at any time or use them for any other needs. Sweet and sour, with a slight bitterness, juicy rowan berries, extracted from the hay in the dead of winter or early spring, were a favorite delicacy of village children. In addition, rowan is a storehouse of vitamins. Hunters and travelers claim that eating a handful of fresh rowan is enough to relieve a headache. Housewives make jam and pastille from rowan berries, and vinegar and kvass are prepared from the juice. Yu7 In winter, frozen and dried berries are fed to livestock and poultry in many places. Rowan berries are widely used in the modern food industry.
For many peoples, cutting rowan trees was considered a great sin. Belarusian peasants believed that it was enough not only to cut down a tree, but even to break one branch, and the mountain ash would certainly take revenge on the offender, and misfortune would befall his house.
In pre-revolutionary Georgia, there was a belief that prohibited the use of rowan wood for firewood. But if, nevertheless, by chance a rowan log fell into the stove or fireplace, then in the house they expected that someone would definitely get sick and would get sick until the ash of the rowan wood was thrown away. Perhaps this belief is due to the fact that rowan wood was very highly valued and, of course, burning the precious material was simply a crime. Rowan wood was used by craftsmen where special strength was required. During swidden farming, Russian peasants had to burn various trees, but if they came across a rowan, they did not burn it, but left it for various crafts. Wood from dried trees was also used for crafts - seasoned wood that did not require special drying.
Rowan is a sound breed. The pinkish-white sapwood at the end in a wide ring surrounds the red-brown core. Each annual ring consists of early light wood and late dark wood. Therefore, the annual layers are clearly visible in all sections. The medullary rays of rowan are very narrow: in tangential and transverse sections they are not at all visible to the naked eye, but in radial sections they are barely noticeable. Core repetitions in the form of brown lines and shapeless spots are found in wood. In terms of physical and mechanical properties, rowan wood is similar to apple tree. It is also heavy, strong, very hard and dries out a lot. Drying freshly cut wood is not so easy. If drying is careless and too hasty, the wood becomes covered with many large and small cracks. It is much safer to use wood from dried rowan trees.
Rowan wood stains well and accepts mordant. After sanding and polishing it acquires a beautiful silky shine. Dense and homogeneous, it can be easily processed by cutting tools and is an excellent material for turning and carving. Moreover, the carving can be made very thin.
Old masters preferred to make parts of some machines - reels, blocks, spinning wheel spools, loom shuttles - from durable mountain ash wood.
Rowan wood is very flexible. Since ancient times, its thin branches have been used for weaving, and its thicker branches have been used in cooperage for hoops. The flexibility of rowan has long been appreciated by fishermen. You can always make a flexible, elastic and long fishing rod from a Yu8 rowan branch.
The wood of rowan roots is of great value for artistic and decorative works. Durable, with an expressive texture, it is especially good for carving and chiselling work. With great skill, folk craftsmen hollowed out and cut the root wood of rowan trees into bowls, ladles, spoons and ladles. Rowan root is a wonderful material for decorative chamber sculpture.
A story about rowan for children
About rowan for children 5-8 years old
Like a beautiful maiden, a rowan tree stands in the autumn forest among dark spruce trees and white-trunked birches. She threw a shawl embroidered with carved golden-red leaves over her shoulders and put on a necklace of scarlet berries.
Rowan is often grown as an ornamental tree, but can also be used as food. Fresh rowan fruits have a bitter taste, but after the first frost the bitterness disappears.
What can you cook from rowan?
Rowan fruits are consumed fresh, in the form of preserves, jams, jelly, as well as soaked and pickled.
Animals and birds love rowan. The bear wanders through the thickets of the forest, collecting mushrooms, berries, acorns - fattening up for the winter. If he finds a rowan tree in the forest, strewn with clusters of berries, he will deftly tilt the flexible tree and enjoy its fruits with pleasure.
Forest giants, elk, also like rowan berries. They, reaching to the very top of the tree, eat its fruits and branches with appetite, and the berries that have fallen to the ground are then picked up by voles, hedgehogs and squirrels.
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About rowan - for children
There are a lot of rowan trees in our forests. It is impossible not to notice her. Bright clusters, like red corals, delight our eyes in autumn. Peter Vyazemsky wrote about rowan:
“Forgetting the picture of the lake,
And the snowy belt of dark mountains,
In you, my dear mountain ash,
My insatiable gaze was fixed."
Rowan is a genus of woody plants from the Rosaceae family. About one hundred species of rowan are known. The main ones among them are the mountain ash (the queen of the autumn forest) and the chokeberry (the queen of the autumn garden).
Useful properties of rowan ordinary have long been familiar to medicine. Healers of the Ancient East paid attention to such a valuable property of rowan as the ability “retain nutrients in the body.” It contains a significant content of vitamins and easily digestible sugars, so the berry is irreplaceable for vitamin deficiencies. In terms of carotene content, rowan will give a head start to some varieties of carrots. A drink made from rowan with rose hips is useful.
The berry has an anti-inflammatory, hemostatic effect. When treating, the fruits, flowers and leaves of mountain ash are used. It is beneficial for the intestines and has a choleretic effect.
Poem about rowan
“You are a rowan, you are curly,
Bloom in the green garden in front of the hut,
You are curly, youthful,
Snow-white fluff - curls are your color.
Remove yourself with a scarlet bead,
Bright berries light up with beauty;
I'll braid them with dark blond,
I’ll braid it with dark brown hair.”
Chokeberry grows wild in the eastern regions of North America. Its distribution in Russia is associated with the name of breeder I.V. Michurin. In 1900, he ordered cuttings of this type of rowan from Germany for crossing with the common rowan. The scientist highly valued this crop as a fruit plant. Subsequently, M.A. Lisavenko played a major role in the spread of chokeberry in our country. In 1935, he received cuttings from Michurinsk and comprehensively studied this culture. In 1942, at the Altai fruit experimental station, he started a plantation of 1000 bushes.
Useful properties of chokeberry no less famous. For example, vitamin P (capillary-strengthening) in its fruits is twice as much as in black currants, and 20 times more than in apples and oranges. It serves as a raw material for the “vitamin” industry. The pulp of the fruit of the chokeberry beauty contains a lot of iodine.
A story based on the painting “Summer in the Park” Rowan branch
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Summary of organized educational activities in the preparatory group on the topic:
A story based on the painting “Summer in the Park” Rowan branch
Kostenkova Lyudmila Ignatievna
STORY AFTER THE PICTURE “SUMMER IN THE PARK”
ROWAN BRANCH
Implementation of program content in educational areas:“Speech development”, “Cognitive development”, “Artistic and aesthetic development”.
Types of children's activities: communicative, visual, perception of fiction and folklore.
Goals: Learn to compose a story on an autumn theme, recognize the real signs of autumn in their poetic expression, understand and use words in a figurative meaning; distinguish and name vowel sounds, come up with words with a given sound, divide words into syllables, determine the type of object; develop speech breathing, the ability to answer the teacher’s questions with a complete answer, develop the ability to draw with watercolors and brushes (all the pile and the end of it), cultivate the ability to see beauty.
Preschool education targets: independently compose a short story based on the picture, using complex sentences in speech; reacts emotionally to the beauty of nature depicted in literary and musical works.
Materials and equipment: painting “Summer in the Park”; a beautiful rowan branch with a small number of branches; watercolor paints, brushes, white paper A4 sheet size.
Preliminary work: Watching rowan trees while walking, reading poems, riddles, proverbs and singing songs about rowan trees.
Vocabulary work: the weather was shaking.
1. Organizational moment.
– Bullfinches come to us in winter. They have never seen a hot summer. What do these birds like to eat? (Rowan berries.) Let's tell the bullfinches about summer and prepare a treat for them - rowan berries.
2. Storytelling based on the painting “Summer in the Park” (from the “Seasons” series).
- Look at the picture. What does she introduce us to? (Like children walking in the park in summer.)
- Let's make up stories about the children's summer walk. What should you do to make your stories interesting? (You need to look at the picture very carefully.)
-Where do you start the story?
– What words will you try to remember to tell, for example, about the park alley? (Shady, green, wide, flat.)
3. Drawing from life “Rowan Branch”.
– Listen to folk signs associated with rowan.
The rowan tree is blooming - it’s time to sow flax.
The rowan tree is blooming clearly - there will be a lot of oats.
Rowan blossoms well - for a flax harvest.
Late flowering of rowan - for a long autumn.
If rowan grows, rye will be good.
There are a lot of rowan trees in the forest - autumn will be rainy, if there are few - dry.
– Look at the rowan branch. What color are the berries? What shape are the leaves? Look at illustrations of bushes and trees decorated in autumn. Listen to V. Rozhdestvensky's poem about the mountain ash.
I knew you, my rowan...
You sat on the outskirts of the village
Above the gray barn roof
It grew under the northern sky.
You were tormented by bad weather,
And you - in spite of all sorrows
Grew and grew stronger year after year,
Looking into the lake glass.
- Guys, who eats rowan berries? ( Birds).
- What kind of birds? (field thrush , tits, starlings, waxwings, crows).
“Sometimes so many birds flock to the fieldfare that the branches cannot support the living load, and the ripe bunches fall to the ground, where they become food for forest voles, hedgehogs and other animals. Both moose and bears love rowan berries.
Rowan is a favorite berry of Russian folklore. In the folk calendar there is a day “Peter-Paul Rowanberry”, which falls at the end of September - the time of ripening of mountain ash berries. On this day, branches with fruits were tied into bunches and hung under the roofs of houses. This custom is associated with the idea of rowan as a tree that can protect a person from all sorts of troubles. It was widespread not only in Russia, but also in Western Europe. Rowan branches were used to decorate not only living quarters, but also barns and gates; even rowan branches were stuck at the edge of each field. She is sung in songs, poems, proverbs, and riddles are written about her. Most often, in the popular imagination, rowan is a thin and gentle girl, suffering and crying.
– Think about the placement of a sprig of rowan on a piece of paper. Remember the techniques for working with watercolors.
Children depict a rowan branch in their drawing.
– Look at all the drawings and choose the most expressive and neatest ones. Explain your choice. The bullfinches are very pleased with your treat.
The story "Rowan"
Nomination “Prose” – 12-16 years old
Tanya studies in the fifth grade of the Kirskaya Secondary School in the Alatyr district of the Chuvash Republic. Since the first grade, he never tires of delighting parents and teachers with his abilities and achievements.
The girl is very literate, reads a lot, writes wonderful essays, tries to write poetry, loves mathematics. Tanya never sits idle, after classes she attends the basketball club, goes to music school, is engaged in design and research activities, and actively takes part in various creative competitions.
Tanya is not bored at home either, because her beloved mother and younger brother Nikita, grandmother and grandfather are waiting for her there. Together they make crafts, bake pies, ski, and pick mushrooms and berries.
My small homeland is the village of Kirya in the Chuvash Republic, which is surrounded by forest on all sides. From early childhood, my grandmother and I went to the forest to pick mushrooms, berries, and medicinal herbs. Mom and grandmother make delicious preparations for the winter from mushrooms and berries. My grandmother dries medicinal herbs, and in winter she brews and gives us aromatic, medicinal tea.
Last year, on an autumn Sunday, my grandmother and I went into the forest to pick mushrooms and admire the beauty of the autumn forest. The weather was wonderful. A light breeze swirled colorful leaves in the air. A soft carpet of fallen leaves rustled underfoot. There were a lot of mushrooms in the forest: these were beautiful ones - white milk mushrooms, and red chanterelles, proud boletuses and cheerful honey mushrooms. I happily ran from mushroom to mushroom and was amazed at how beautiful they all were.
Suddenly something crunched under my feet. I took a closer look and realized that I had stepped on a small mountain ash. I felt sad to the point of tears for my carelessness and felt very sorry for the young tree. My grandmother began to calm me down, saying that the mountain ash would get better. How will I know about this, how can I then find her in a dense forest! What if I destroyed the mountain ash? Seeing my grief, my grandmother suggested taking a rowan tree and planting it near the house. I was delighted with the offer. With great difficulty we managed to dig up the tree, and we went home happy.
The whole family planted rowan. Even little brother Nikita did not stand aside. And having sat down, everyone made their deepest wishes. The rowan plant, planted with love, quickly took root. In winter, we wrapped it in warm cloth and lined it with spruce branches so that mice would not destroy the bark of the young tree.
The long, cold winter has passed and spring has arrived. The first leaves appeared on the mountain ash. We were very glad! We learned that rowan is a long-living tree. The first years of life it grows very quickly, half a meter per year. It begins to bear fruit after three to six years. Rowan berries have numerous healing properties.
This fall we brought another rowan seedling from the forest. Now our mountain ash is not bored - her friend is growing next to her.
Years will pass, and mature rowan trees will decorate both our house and our street. In spring they will be fragrant with fragrant white flowers, and in winter they will be fed with healthy berries. The wish I made is gradually beginning to come true: a rowan grove has appeared near our house.
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Essay about rowan
Autumn beauty in a bright outfit.
In summer, rowan is invisible. She blends in with other trees. But in the fall, when the trees dress in yellow, it can be seen from afar. The bright red berries attract the attention of people and birds. People admire the tree. Birds feast on his gifts.
Even in winter, when the snow is white everywhere, rowan berries delight with their juicy tassels. Her images can be found on many New Year's cards. Artists love rowan because it makes winter more fun and colorful. Poets also love wood. They often compare its juicy berries to beads.
Rowan is not only a beautiful tree. Grandmothers and mothers collect its berries after frost hits. They are said to be very useful at this time. They give people vitamins and medicine.
I asked my grandmother why she eats rowan berries. She said they were replacing her heart drops. Then I thought that the human heart is a motor, and rowan berries are oil for it, preventing the motor from rusting.
I don't eat rowan berries because I have a healthy heart. But I love admiring the tree. One day I was treated to rowan jam. It was delicious. If I become an artist, I will definitely paint a landscape with rowan trees. It will bring people joy and good mood.
For me, the mountain ash is a symbol of my Motherland. This is a tree that decorates nature all year round and is always useful. In spring it blooms magnificently, in summer it gives coolness, in winter and autumn it makes the world brighter. But still, most of all I like rowan in the fall.
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I really love this modest branched tree, growing almost everywhere in our forests. I love its feathery green leaves, rustling even in a light breeze. There is something cheerful, joyful, Russian in this tree, which always smiles at everyone. In our folk songs, the mountain ash is often affectionately remembered. For a long time, Russian peasants planted rowan trees under the windows of their wooden huts.
Rowan can also be seen in the north of our country, where fruit trees - apple and pear trees - do not grow. The trunk of the rowan tree is clean and smooth, covered with thin shiny bark. The rowan tree blooms in late spring, when the forests are dressed in green, the clear-voiced nightingales are singing and singing at the edges and on the banks of rivers and forest streams. Modest, similar to large yellowish clusters, rowan flowers are hardly noticeable and are not distinguished by their lush beauty. In summer, clusters of small round berries begin to turn red on the rowan tree. They ripen slowly in the summer sun.
Forest rowan berries are hard and tasteless. In summer, birds do not peck them and people do not touch them. Only in late autumn, when the yellowed and reddened leaves fall from the trees and the first autumn frosts press down, do the rowan berries become sweet.
In late autumn, rowan thrushes feed on rowan berries. Rowan berries hang on the trees until the winter snow, and migrating thrushes remain in our forests for a long time. On the white snow under the branches of rowan trees, the scales of berries pecked by birds turn red.
Once upon a time in Russian villages, peasants collected bunches of red rowan, touched by frost, in late autumn. They tied them in bunches and hung them in the cold under the roofs of houses and barns. Frozen rowan is very tasty and aromatic. On holidays, children from Russian forest villages feasted on frozen, sweet mountain ash. Once upon a time, skillful housewives made tasty, slightly bitter jam from rowan, and candied rowan bunches in thick syrup. Such candied rowan berries could even be bought in city confectionery stores.
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The berries sparkle in the sun
Twinkling stars.
There are a lot of rowan trees. They say,
Frosty for winter.
And if so, chop the wood,
Prepare the logs...
The rowan fire is burning
In the autumn fire.
Valery Pavlov
This tree grows everywhere in our Urals, as well as throughout Russia.
But for some reason people don’t often remember it, more often about birch and bird cherry. Although if you strain your memory, you can remember the Rodygin song about the Ural mountain ash. But this is an exception. In spring, as a rule, languid girls and the guys accompanying them go to the spring forest for the aromas and lushly blooming foamy white cherry flowers.
The mountain ash begins to bloom after the bird cherry. Its peduncle is somehow inconspicuous, spreading, like a cold lamp. Because of this inconspicuous peduncle, many people passing by rowan do not pay attention to the smell of the flowering tree. And this smell itself is modest, weak in comparison with the all-encompassing aroma of bird cherry. However, the spring elusive shade of rowan blossom is unique, more subtle and pleasant compared to its white-blooming neighbor.
The trees fade, and in the general green mass, bird cherry and rowan lose their individuality, merging with the background of eternally monochromatic spruce, fir and pine trees.
Closer to autumn, people again first of all remember bird cherry. Its black fruits are as pleasing to humans as its bright color. In autumn, inconspicuous dried fruits, like pellets, often remain on the tops of bird cherry bushes.
At this time, the mountain ash hangs yellow-green garlands of light bulbs all over its body. Garland bulbs slowly absorb the power of the earth. They are maturing. They absorb new color and mass. It is not easy for rowan during this period. Its fruits become heavy and pull the branches towards the ground, and the mischievous wind flutters the heavy rowan branches from side to side. The mother rowan tree tries to save her ripening child from fruits falling to the ground and from breaking - it bends, stretches in different directions under a gust of wind, and stores, stores...
And then the wind and rain died down. It's getting colder. The first loose and timid snow began to fall. All the surrounding deciduous trees had lost their summer decorations, their bare, monotonous branches rustling in the wind.
The mountain ash has also lost its summer foliage, but has retained its garland fruit. Bright red, they glow against the backdrop of the first snow, remaining the only decoration of color and light of the much-desired fleeting summer that has gone into oblivion.
Rowan preserves summer fruits for a long time. Sometimes until February. And sometimes at the end of October it is visited by welcome guests, for whom the mountain ash worked all summer, steadfastly enduring the hardships of motherhood.
It's the end of October and the snow clearly won't stay on the ground for long. It was too early to expect northern guests, but they arrived. A small flock of intelligent and naturally well-groomed waxwings landed on the top of a rowan tree. The branches of the tree received the visiting guests, gently swinging them on the branches, as if in a hammock. The guests, after a long flight, behaved somewhat calmly and did not show much interest in the rowan fruits. They swayed lazily, like well-bred guests, they consumed the treat with restraint and kept looking towards their favorite northern direction. And then they fled, obeying their inner call, and disappeared from human eyes.
A few days later, a flock of waxwings appeared in the sky. In flight, the bird looked like a regular triangle, and only the tail, open like a fan with a yellow edging, controlled the flight. This whole bird family, as if called, settled on the top of the tree. A moment later, the top red fruits of the rowan were consumed and the former lantern garlands exposed the gray bareness of natural structures. The birds were waxwing about something, socially discussing the quality of the treat. The upper guests, flaunting the gray color of their suit and the well-groomed body of a bird, shook their crested heads and observed the surrounding nature. The birds on the lower branches continued to eat rowan berries.
Some kind of alarm or internal message of movement tore the flock of birds from the mountain ash tree, and they flew away.
For several days, migratory guests from unknown lands flew to the rowan tree, and it always joyfully gave away its wealth and provided its swing branches. Having had their fill, the guests sat on the wires, like swallows, or on the tops of poles, never vying for a place at the top, as our local magpies or crows do. Sometimes waxwings mastered the top of a bare birch, and at the same time sat plumply, tightly on one branch. At the same time, the entire flock’s gaze was turned to the north, apparently to give a signal to their homeland, a signal to their favorite places, and a memory of the ways of return. And how symbolic it is to compare a waxwing with a seagull. The seagull always lands on a stone in the middle of the river with its head facing south. This is also a look towards the homeland, a favorite habitat, a look towards one’s movement. I wonder which way the waxwing and the gull look when some are in the north and others in the south?
Rowan decorated the area with its red lantern garlands for several more days. Waxwings were her regular guests. They ate happily, waxed and disappeared.
One day in deep autumn, the mountain ash was the last among the Ural bushes and trees to extinguish its autumn garlands and quietly fell asleep, like everyone else, until next spring.
In Russia, it is found in the forest-steppe and forest zones of the European part of the country, right up to the tundra. Morozov is not afraid, penetrating even the Arctic Circle, and only in the southern regions of the country does the moisture-loving mountain ash take root poorly.
Scientists count 84 species of rowan. The mountain ash occupies the most honorable place in this large family. This tree is 8-15 m tall, with an openwork crown. It grows quickly and blooms in the seventh year. It bears fruit annually from 8-10 years of age and lives up to 200 years.
Rowan blooms in May. Bees visit her. Rowan honey is reddish in color, very aromatic and tasty.
The real beauty of the rowan is revealed in late summer - early autumn, when it turns red from the berries. Their clusters will light up with fire against the background of graceful, feather-like leaves. The bright fruits of rowan are called berries, although in their structure they correspond to the fruits of an apple tree. Rowan “apples”, each no more than a centimeter in diameter, are collected in clusters of 25-40, or even 50 pieces. Each “apple” contains 4 and sometimes 8 seeds.
These berries contain not only beauty, but also great benefits, although they have a bitter aftertaste. Knowledgeable people do not eat them at this time. They are waiting for the first frost to hit. The cold removes the bitterness from the berries, and all the beneficial substances are preserved.
There is especially a lot of vitamin C in rowan - just like in lemon and black currant. In terms of the amount of carotene, rowan can compete with carrots. Rowan fruits are also rich in sugars, vitamin A, malic acid and tannins. Thanks to these substances, the berries do not rot and remain fresh for a long time.
Tannins are also found in wood. That is why, when wooden churches began to be built in Rus', rowan was used for their construction along with birch.
Rowan fruits are the main food for many birds in autumn and winter. The bear also loves to eat rowan fruits.
The Russian name is associated with the word “ripple”: when you look at a mountain ash, the bright red berries make a ripple in your eyes.
