Flowers on March 8th. History of tradition.

There are a number of countries where the 8th of March or international women´s day is celebrated officially. Is Ukraine, and Belarus, Israel and Montenegro, and Vietnam and many, many others. And since the geography of this celebration so great (however, do not forget about the rich history of international women´s day), it is not surprising that people have developed certain traditions regarding ladies, congratulations with the day of 8 March. However, let´s talk more about that later, initially, remembering that first began to celebrate international women´s day.

According to one version, the first international women´s day was marked in the history of the 1857 year. It then held the so-called “March of the empty saucepans”. It held the new York textile workers, demanding the reduction of working hours (women work for 16 hours), higher wages. However, later françoise Peak in their publications proved that this version of the origin of international women´s day was most likely invented in order to deprive the 8th of March connection with the Communist ideology.

Again on the 8th of March, again, remembered American beauty. So, at the urging of the new York women´s organizations of the social Democrats, 15 of thousands of local residents marched through the city.

only a year later (in 1909-ohms) in America was formalized by the international women´s day, which, however, had “floating date” was noted in February last Sunday. Your international scale referred to the holiday he had purchased in 1911 – after a year with the moment to establish a similar celebration on the Second socialist women´s conference offered Clara Zetkin…

assuming 1857-go, but this year almost the whole world will celebrate the 158th women´s day. It is clear that in all that time each country developed its own rules, characteristics, traditions concerning how and who decided to congratulate on the day of March 8. Let´s then talk about similar traditions concerning the day of 8 March in Ukraine in General and Kiev in particular.

First and foremost Ukrainian tradition, which refers to the international women´s day – to give your favorite ladies on the 8th of March flowers. And to order flowers on March 8 must not only for adult women - his beloved wife or mother, sister or grandmother. Present bouquets are supposed to, and very young girls – daughters, sisters and nieces.

moreover, order bouquet you will need for all the family, relatives, and to visit a real or virtual store bouquets will have, choosing the appropriate song for the ladies-co-workers. Incidentally, with regard to co-workers, in Ukraine there is on this account a certain tradition. So, due to the fact that the day of March 8 is traditionally the weekend to congratulate a co-worker made ahead of time, that is, one should enjoy the bouquets or bouquet for the ladies-colleagues on the day before the celebration. However, if you don´t want to break away from the workflow or want to congratulate a colleague on the day of March 8, you can easily help flower delivery. Kiev and salons, by the way, offer this service at a more than reasonable price. However, in order to have your beloved co-worker did not have any issues, it is better to order flowers on March 8 for a colleague, asking to invest in the bouquet card with a corporate symbol and restrained desire.

by the Way, modern flower delivery (Kiev and its floristic salons have provided such information) before the 8th of March gets the most orders tulips and roses. Therefore, the Ukrainians developed a tradition to give on international women´s day to the ladies these flowers.

Mila Ruchenko