The struggle of Spring with Winter
According to a myth, on the first day of March , the beautiful Spring came out to the edge of the forest and noticed how, in a clearing, in a bush of doves, a snowdrop rose from under the snow.
She decided to help him and started to brush away the snow and break the thorny branches. Winter , seeing this, got angry and called the wind and frost to destroy the flower. The snow immediately froze. Spring then covered the snow with her hands, but she injured a finger because of the maracins. I licked a drop of hot blood from my finger which, falling on the flower, made it come back to life. In this way, Spring defeated Winter , and the martisol colors symbolize her red blood on the white snow.

Historic
It is considered that the celebration of the Martisor appeared at the time Roman Empire , when New Year it was celebrated on the first day of spring, in his month Mars .
He was not only the god of war, but also of fertility and vegetation. This duality is noted in the colors of the martissor, white meaning peace, and red - war. The New Year was celebrated on March 1 until the beginning 18th century . ^{[4] [ citation needed ]}
Archaeological research carried out in Romania , at Cladova's scaffolding , they revealed amulets similar to Martisor dating from approx. 8,000 years. Amulets made of pebbles painted in white and red were worn at neck Documentary, Martisorul was attested for the first time in a work of his Iordache Golescu . folklorist Simion Florea Marian suppose that in Moldova and i Bucovina M artisor was composed of a gold or silver coin, fastened with red-white thread, and was worn by children around the neck . ^[5] Adolescent girls also wore martisor around their necks during the first 12 days of March, in order to then catch it in their hair and keep it until the arrival of the first crowns and the flowering of trees. At that moment, the girls took out their martisor and hung it on the branch of a tree, and gave the coin to curd ^[6] These "rituals" ensured a productive year.

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