The month of March in the folklore .. and the story of borrowers

Arab Weather - Saad Bukhari - March is the third (3) month of the calendar year according to the Syriac names, and it corresponds to it in the western name, March.
The month of March in the Levant is associated with heritage, folk tale and proverbs to inform us of weather conditions.
Our folk tales that our grandparents told us had the pleasure of telling the story and keep generations with the preaching of the ancestors.
Where these sayings and proverbs were able to reflect the great experiences of ancestors.

As for the proverbs of March in the Levant, and great stories, including:

• Hbeitak great for your uncle March.

Where the belief prevailed among people that the winter cold ends in the month of February, so that they are surprised by a bitter cold in the month of March.
This popular proverb came from the ancestors to warn people against removing carpets, heaters and winter clothes, and hiding firewood or whatever is needed for the March cold.

And they said on the first day of March:

• Remember the father of earthquakes and rains, with lactic acid and with the splendor of the camel, the neck opening, the camel, the eggs of the shinnar and the smallest birds, and the shepherd cursing and warming without fire.
• I remember the same night and day.
• The big chars faded from the roars of March.
• In the old March, the fire did not leave.
• Agouza throws the shank at the door of the house, the beginning of which is a saqah, and the end of it is a fire.
• March has seven snowmen who are not young.
• Mention the weir with thunderbolts and rain.
• A month that mentions the hour of sunshine and the hour of rain.
• March sun and rain, and the Shepherd dries up without fire.
• In March stoves landed the door of the house.
• Every trembling memory raining Nissan.
• Plowed in March, if torrent Karrar.
• Here I remember uprooting trees.
• In March, the league nests and leaves trees.
• In March, your cows came out of the house.
• In March, wean your son off, even if he had a head.
• March fell and flew away.
• If the age of olives is mentioned, they wrap the pilgrim for it.
• The grass I remember has two ears.
• I remember greeting trees.
• In March, the roses open a button.
• If you fertilized and March saw it, and if it becomes pregnant, then it is mentioned.
• If I conclude, mention the one who lived, and the one who is righteous.

And we do not forget the story of borrowers in our popular heritage, in which the month of February invoked his cousin March.

The Story of Borrowers:

As for her story, according to folklore, it goes back to an old woman who has six sheep who went out to graze with her in a valley during the last days of February, during which it did not rain and the weather was warm. Balmkhabt: "He heard her speech, February, and was angry at her words and felt insulted. He went to his brother in the month of March and sought help from the old woman and said," Oh Adar, my cousin, three of you and four of me, let the old woman in the valley sing. "
Then it rained abundantly during these days for the borrowers, and the valleys flowed and the torrent swept away the old sheep. The old woman cried, sadly, "O torrent.

March 20 of 2021 marks the first day of the spring season, and some countries celebrate this day with the so-called `` Day of Nowruz '', and this day is equal to the length of the day with the length of the night, and so does the sunrise for the first time in the Arctic after a night of 6 months.
And starts setting sun for the first time in Antarctica after a day of 6 months.

The month of March reminds us of several memories, including Earth Day, which falls on March 30 of each year
And the memory of the Battle of Dignity on March 21.
Likewise, the second of March of every year was adopted as a day for the city of Amman, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Jordanian state.

And the month of March had a share of poems
Where the Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawki said the poem of spring :
March is coming. Dude, Al-Rabeeh is the garden of spirits.
And collect the envelopes under his banner and spread his yard with a rug of winds.
Safo is allowed, take for yourself its share, as serenity is not available in the distance.

Abu Firas al-Hamdani says :
We dated March of an unselected endeavor.
And we dragged the rit to a winery.
We did not know that it had opened to us from the side of the house.

And the poem of the land by Mahmoud Darwish:
In March, in the year of the uprising, the earth told us its bloody secrets. In the month of March, five girls passed by Violet and Venice. They stood at the door of an elementary school, and lit with flowers and thyme. Inaugurate the hymn of dirt. They entered the final embrace - March comes to Earth from the Earth's core.

Written by Saad Bukhari