Snow fell from the sky little by little,
The janitor cleared the path to the house.
For children's joy and fun
I made a big snowman.

Chorus:
Snow woman, snowy,
Very gentle nature.
Snow woman, snowy,
Delicate and snow-white.

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Grandma loved to work very much,
I knew it would look cute with a broom.
And, humming a song tenderly,
She swept the yard very diligently.

Chorus.

3
The janitor immediately fell in love with that woman,
If it weren’t for summer, I would have gotten married right away.
It will melt in the summer - that’s bad luck,
Who will work at the dacha?

Chorus.

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The song Snow Woman talks about one of the most popular children's entertainments in winter. Modeling a snowman or snow woman. As soon as the snow fell, the children made a beautiful snow woman. And she becomes alive for everyone. The woman’s character, despite her tenderness, is very good and hard-working. It’s not in vain that she holds a broom in her hands. She charms everyone, especially the janitor, who even wants to marry her, but understands that the woman will melt in the summer. Performed by Katya Gutsalyuk Music: R. Gutsalyuk Words: N. Solovyova

Snowman.

Snowman(aka - snow woman) - a simple snow sculpture. Making a snowman is a winter pastime that originated in ancient times.

Story

Snowmen have been known for a very long time, although the first evidence of them dates back to the 14th-15th centuries. According to historians, snowmen appeared in prehistoric times, since from the very moment of their inception visual arts any available material was used for it, and snow was available and easily processed.

Picture of a snowman in a book from 1380

The most ancient depiction of a snowman dates back to the end of the 14th century, in the Book of Hours (manuscript KA 36, around 1380, p. 78v) in the margin there is a snowman roasting on a fire. Eckstein believes that the strange hat on the snowman's head should symbolize a Jew, and attributes the image to manifestations of anti-Semitism.

Snowmen were quite popular in the Middle Ages, usually taking the form of realistic snow sculptures. Eckstein notes the lack of early written evidence, attributing this to both the onset of the Little Ice Age in the 14th century and the absence of newspapers before the invention of printing in the 15th century. The earliest record of a snowman dates back to 1408, when the Florentine wine merchant Bartolomeo del Corazza (Italian: Bartolomeo del Corazza) wrote in his diary about an unforgettable snow sculpture two braccia high (about 120 cm).

Design

Snowman in Germany

A classic snowman consists of three snow globes (balls), obtained by making snowballs and rolling the lying snow onto them. The largest lump becomes the snowman's belly, the smaller one becomes the chest, and the smallest one becomes the head. Realizations of the rest of the body may vary, but there is a canonical representation of a snowman. Real snowmen may not live up to it, but it is common in fairy tales and cartoons.

The snowman's hands can be represented by two branches, but symbolic hands are sometimes made from two small lumps of snow. The snowman is often given a shovel or broom, which is stuck into the snow next to the figure. Sometimes the snowman is equipped with two feet made of snowballs, as if peeking out from under the skirt of his fur coat. The canon requires that the snowman's nose be made of carrots (carrots were well preserved until winter in old Russian peasant farms), but in the reality of modern conditions, more accessible materials at hand (pebbles, sticks, coals) are often used, which denote other facial features. Sometimes a bucket is placed on the snowman's head.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the typical snowman was a realistic snow sculpture.

In the 21st century, store-bought inflatable snowmen are used as holiday decorations instead of rolled-up snow. Stores also sell ready-made kits(hats, buttons, imitation coal and carrots), and the snowmen begin to look similar to each other.

The image of a snowman is also used in design and as souvenirs. As a decorative element, a snowman is made from paper, fabric, or thread.

In culture

At least two famous sculptors became famous for their (realistic) snowmen: Larkin Mead (English)Russian, whose career began with "The Snow Angel", and Alexandre Falguière, who on December 8, 1870, as a soldier during the Franco-Prussian War, created the statue "The Resistance" (French: La Resistance) as part of the "Museum of Snow on Bastion 84" ( Many other artists and sculptors served in the 17th company of the 19th battalion).

Michelin Bibendum 2012

The snowman is actively used in advertising. Unlike other winter characters, it is convenient because it does not evoke religious associations (although in 2015 one of the imams in Saudi Arabia issued a fatwa prohibiting Muslims from making snowmen) and therefore expands the demographic reach of advertising. Its whiteness allows you to advertise a lot of products that resemble snow: salt, flour, sugar, toothpaste and so on. . The snowman evokes a feeling of novelty, cleanliness, freshness - and allows you to sell not only laundry and personal hygiene products, but even cigarettes (after all, he exhales “fresh air”). The figure of a snowman is associated with brands such as English. Snoboy and Michelin.

Frosty the snowman gained the greatest popularity in the English-speaking world - first in the song of the same name (English)Russian in 1949, then in the film The Adventures of Frosty the Snowman, and in dozens of books and short films.

The image of the snowman has proven popular in films, from obvious successes like The Snowman (English)Russian» R. Briggs (English)Russian and nominated for an Oscar in 1965. Help! My Snowman's Burning Down to the disastrous "Jack Frost" (which even Michael Keaton could not save). The Adventures of Frosty the Snowman received four sequels. Frosty, the creators of whose graphic image were inspired by the creations of P. Cocker (English)Russian, a cartoonist for Mad magazine, gave birth to the modern unified figure of a snowman, familiar to residents of Western Europe and America from gift shops and cartoons.

In Russian New Year's fairy tales and cartoons, he often appears as a companion of Father Frost.

Record-breaking snowmen

One of the largest snowmen was rolled up in February 1999 in Bethel, Maine. He was named "Angus, King of the Hill" in honor of Angus King, then governor of Maine. The snowman was 35 meters tall and weighed more than 4,000 tons.

In 2008, they made a snowman even larger there: 37 meters high and weighing 6,000 tons. The snow woman listed in the Guinness Book was named after Olympia Snowe, a senator from Maine.

In anticipation of Christmas 2010, English scientist David Cox, a member of the Quantum Division of the National Physical Laboratory in London, together with colleagues created a snowman symbol from two peas of a 0.01 mm tin alloy. The snowman's nose is made of platinum and its diameter is only 0.001 mm. The snowman's face and smile were carved using a focused ion beam.

Festivals

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There are hundreds of snowman-related festivals around the world every year, from a golf tournament in Pennsylvania that ends with golf balls being shot at a snowwoman on the ice of Lake Wallenpaupack (English)Russian before the grand holidays in Harbin and Sapporo.

In Russia, the most famous is the Siberian Snow Sculpture Festival, which has been taking place since 2000 in Novosibirsk.

The life of a snow woman ends unusually during the Six Bells in Zurich: a snowman stuffed with explosives (made of cotton wool) is placed in a fire. According to legend, the faster it explodes, the hotter the summer will be.

Snow Maiden

It is assumed that in Rus' snowmen were revered as the spirits of winter, and that they were asked for help, mercy and to reduce the duration of cold weather. Perhaps that is why the snowman was given a broom in his “hands” - so that he could fly into the sky. It is possible that in Rus' they once believed that the air was inhabited by heavenly maidens who commanded fogs, clouds, and snow, and therefore solemn rituals were organized in their honor, including the sculpting of snow women. Most likely a snowman ( snow woman) represents an ambivalent figure in the archetypal structure of myth. Deep comparative analysis Slavic legends and beliefs in connection with the mythological tales of other peoples A. N. Afanasyeva suggests that the snowman is a heavenly nymph created by man from snow, who fell dead to the ground as a result of a mythical battle between the gods of thunder (lightning, cold) and clouds. Having melted in the spring, the heavenly nymph came to life, ascending as steam into the sky, and could again bring rain to the earth, which was required for the growth of the crop. That's why people made snowmen in the winter, hoping for a good harvest in the fall.

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Unicode snowman character: U+2603.(☃ )

see also

• - fairy tale by H. C. Andersen

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The snowman is one of the cutest New Year characters. Even if we cannot make it out of snow (like this winter in St. Petersburg, for example), we draw it on postcards, make it out of paper, cotton wool, and hang it on Christmas trees. What's so special about a snowman? Well, of course, in his kind, ingenuous smile, and also in a simple form familiar from childhood.

I remember as a child, when there was a lot of snow, we made a snow woman in the yard. Yes, exactly the “snow woman”, not the “snowman”. The word "snowman" was not in use. The classic snow woman consisted of three smooth-rolled balls of snow - large, medium and small. A nose made of carrots, a bucket on his head, a broom in his hands.

Meanwhile, the history and meaning of our snow woman and the European snowman are different. In Russia, snow in winter is normal. Lack of snow in winter is not normal. In Rus', they once believed that the air was inhabited by heavenly maidens who commanded fogs, clouds, and snow, and the pagans organized solemn rituals in their honor. To appease the heavenly inhabitants, they sculpted snow women, as if exalting the heavenly nymphs on earth. A mystical character can be discerned in the details of their “robes”. For example, a carrot-shaped nose was attached to appease pagan spirits who sent harvests and fertility. An inverted bucket on the head symbolized prosperity in the house. One of the rituals was carried out to protect against severe frosts on the day winter solstice(December 25). It was necessary to help the sun gain strength - so the peasants lit fires and rolled burning wheels, symbolizing the luminary. To prevent the winter from being too harsh, they sculpted a snow woman to represent winter and danced round dances around her.

As for Europe, snow in winter is by no means welcome there. Europeans were not accustomed to cold winters, so sometimes severe winters with severe frosts and blizzards that occurred in relatively warm Europe brought people a lot of trouble. The first European snowmen were usually sculpted in the form of evil, ferocious snow monsters of impressive size. The word “schneeman” itself, that is, “snowman”, originally arose in German. The image of a snowman first appeared as an illustration for a children's book with songs published in Leipzig. Under the influence of Christianity, snowmen were considered pagan man-made idols that pose a real threat to people. They thought that it was especially dangerous to sculpt them during periods of a full moon: for a person this could result in obsessive nightmares, night terrors, and generally all sorts of failures. And in Norway there was a legend that it was dangerous to look at snowmen late in the evening from behind a curtain. In addition, it was considered a bad sign to encounter a snowy figure at night: it was recommended to avoid it. In Romania, there has long been a known custom of decorating a snowman with “beads” made from garlic heads. It was believed that this promoted the health of household members and protected them from the mischief of dark forces. Only in the 19th century, when Christian dogmas began to lose their former influence, European snow creatures “became kinder” and soon became an indispensable attribute of Christmas and New Year. Greeting Cards depicting a cute smiling snowman surrounded by cheerful children quickly gained popularity.

It should be added that now the snowman is not only one of the symbols of the New Year, but also the subject of competitions. Records are being set all over the world for sculpting the tallest snowmen. The tallest snowman in Europe flaunts on the slopes ski resort in Austria, in the city of Galtür: its height reached 16 meters 70 centimeters. And the record for creating the tallest snowman in the world was set in the United States of America in 1999, its height is 37 meters 20 centimeters, and its weight is 6 thousand tons of snow.

Snowmen are one of the favorite New Year's characters of people all over the world, regardless of whether it snows or not. Let their ingenuous smile illuminate the holiday, unite people, make them kinder and more peaceful! Happy New Year 2016!