It is always a pity to part with the hot summer days, warm nights, blooming flower beds, pleasing the eyes of vacationers. But nature is ready to make another gift and return warm days for a short time. Why summer was called summer, when Indian summer is met - can be found in this article.
Summer days
Summer comes every year. Humanity enjoys three beautiful months, basking in the rays of the gentle sun. But only a few think about why summer was called summer. The Indo-European basis of leto is translated as "the time of the bright sun." June, July and August really differ in warm and long days. At this time of the year, it is customary to relax and swim in natural reservoirs.
And still everyone heard the expression "The Indian age is short." Everything goes fast. Summer gives an impetus to life, and the subsequent cooling after it reminds us that there are long chilly days ahead, cold, slush, frost. Everything is like in a person’s life. So goes the famous Indian summer. Why is it called the period of autumn, to be understood!
Signs of Indian summer
The short summer, which returns to all regions of the country, lasts from a few days to 2-3 weeks. It comes only after three striking events:
- golden autumn;
- night frosts;
- cobwebs in groves, forest, parks.
Do not confuse Indian summers with warm days in September. It is just climate change. Usually, after several cold days and the first night frosts, this miracle of nature sets in. In different regions, it takes place in different ways. So, in Siberia, after mild frosts in the last days of August (the first September), Indian summer is established for a week or two. In the Moscow region often takes place in early September. In the southern regions: in the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov Region - you have to wait for the Indian summer in early November. It is not clear why this wonderful period is called the Indian summer.
Very often, during this period, a second blooming of some types of wildflowers or garden flowers occurs, blooming only once during the year. There comes a sunny golden autumn without precipitation, with flying cobwebs, bright rays giving their warmth. In his dictionary, Dahl defined this time as the beginning of the Indian summer - September 14, the day of Simeon the flight attendant. It can last until September 28, until the day of the Exaltation. It became a little clear why summer was called summer, but how summer warmth comes in the fall is unclear.
Signs of the peoples of the world
Each nation in its own way calls the weather changes:
- Macedonians and Bulgarians call this period “gypsy summer”;
- Serbs call “Mikhailovoy or Martinovoe summer”;
- Americans - "Native American Summer";
- Swedes - “Brigitte's summer”;
- the French - "the summer of St. Denis";
- Italians - "the summer of St. Martin";
- Swiss - "widow's summer."
The same term is endowed with weather changes by Western and Eastern Slavs, Germans. The literal translation from German of this phrase means “summer of old women”, which causes discontent among older German women. The word "woman" does not offend Russian women in any way, since in Russia women have long been called women. All women, on the contrary, love and wait for Indian summer. We will find out why this time of year is called right now.
The origins of the name
If you adhere to the meaning of the expression from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, then this combination is interpreted as the time of the warm sun, allowing you to stroll under its rays, in peasant life means the end of the work in the fields, the female half decides her household issues on the farm, weaving, needlework. This work was considered womanish, unworthy of the male population.
Everyone understands why summer is called "red." This means a beautiful season. Even in ancient times they said “the girl is red”, indicating her natural good looks and beautiful appearance.
After a working day, the peasants gathered outside the outskirts for gatherings, sang songs, danced, listened to harmony. The German people also associate the Indian summer time with weaving, yarn. Even nature is working at this time: spiders begin to weave their web, thin and almost transparent. Also reminiscent of a cobweb in color is gray hair in old women.
Bit of fiction
There are mystical explanations for this concept. It is believed that it is a woman who can turn the time of year back by the power of her love spell. Another expression “Forty-five - a woman’s berry again” speaks of a woman’s heyday. Fruits nature in gardens and orchards, thereby showing the Indian mission. That is why they call the Indian summer period in the middle of autumn.
The most serious justifications for this phenomenon are given by weather forecasters. They explain it by the beginning of the action of a long anticyclone that affects nature. At this time, at night, the soil still does not freeze completely, and in the daytime the air does not warm up to the highest levels. Fading foliage gives off to the atmosphere its warm energy, which, rushing upwards, contributes to an increase in atmospheric pressure, thereby dispelling the clouds.
Whatever the reason, thanks to nature for a short time that it returns warm days, flowering plants, birdsong, which means a good mood. Therefore, it does not matter at all why summer was called summer. The main thing is that at this time you want to do good and spend time with loved ones.