Festival of Chuvashs of Zakamye “Uchuk” will be held online format
In connection with the unfavorable epidemiological situation, the XIV Chuvash festival of the Zakamye of the Republic of Tatarstan “Uchuk” will be held in the online format on June 28.
In the holiday program:
performances by the Chuvash folklore groups of municipalities of the Republic of Tatarstan and Chuvashia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DJwFS9yehXuU1L1aMwRVQ/featured (Republican Center for the Development of Traditional Culture)
Display of the program from the archive of the Karavai program of TNV “Holiday of the summer sacrifice of the Zakamsky Chuvashs Uchuk”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVCv9cKjQUA
Demonstration of the rite “Saltak asatni” - “Seeing off to the army” (folk ensemble “Palan” Novosurkinskiy SK) and ritual-playing culture of the Chuvash “Çимĕк каçĕ” - “Semik” (folk folk ensemble “Sespel” Starosurkinskiy SDK rural house of culture )
Uchuk Solar Moments marathon: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DJwFS9yehXuU1L1aMwRVQ/featured (Republican Center for the Development of Traditional Culture)
Also, holiday videos will be published on the organizers ’Internet sites: Assemblies and the House of Friendship of the Peoples of Tatarstan, Starosurkinsk SDK, Novosurkinsk SK Almetyevsk district of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Uchuk is a rite of nationwide field prayer of the Chuvashs. In ancient times, the Chuvash people thanked by this rite for the harvest and asked for no less in the following year.