Proverbs about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter

Proverbs about the seasons are an integral part of Russian folklore. This is due to the fact that our ancestors liked to observe the changes that came with the change of seasons. And the knowledge obtained in this process, they sought to convey to their descendants.

Thanks to this, we have heard a lot of works of oral folk art. In particular, proverbs related to the seasons and months. Unfortunately, it is impossible to collect all of them together, as this will require spending all your life. However, the most interesting and beautiful is worth mentioning.

The arrival of spring

For our ancestors, the beginning of the year was considered to be spring, since it was during this period that nature again came to life after a winter sleep. That's why our proverbs and sayings about the seasons begin with such a beautiful season.

• In March, the frost is still creaky, but not so hot.
• March with water, April with grass, and May with flowers.
• Spring is a new day red.
• Spring has keys to the world's water.
• Rook on the tree, spring in business.
• You'll miss the day of spring - you'll make up for a year.
• I turn the night into the tree in the spring.
• Rain among May raises bread to the sky.
• Sometimes even May can boast of frost.
• Mother-spring will give everyone warmth.
• Fast Spring - wait for the flood.
• Spring has come - the peasants have no time for sleep.
• If May is cold, then the year will be fertile.
• In the spring, three fine days are a rarity.

The grace of summer

What could be better than heat and sunlight? Perhaps that is why the Slavs so often mentioned in their creations summer. At the same time, they not only praised the hot season, but also watched the way nature behaves during this period. Let's consider those proverbs about the seasons, which most accurately describe the summer.

• Summer does not happen twice a year.
• If the grass has blossomed, then it's time to call the mowers.
• Summer day will be able to feed.
• If there is often a thunderstorm - hay will be up to the top.
• Still no one in the summer to live bored.
• Summer day as a winter week.
• For the peasant, the summer of the father and mother replaces.
• In the summer, every bush can become a house.
• Not sap feeds the muzhik, but summer work.
• Only those fields are happy that the summer rains see.
• Every summer day has its own worries.
• What you gather in summer in the field, then in the winter on the table you will put.

It's time for velvet and gold

There are different proverbs about the seasons, but the most colorful are those that describe the fall. After all, it is during this period that nature changes its habitual outfit for a golden robe. And such beauty could not be missed by the eyes, and therefore it was immortalized in the creations of oral folk art.

• In September, fire in the field and in the hut.
• Spring is beautiful with flowers, and autumn with crimson leaves.
• Autumn rain finely sows, yes long creepers.
• In the fall, the passerine family feast.
• Autumn has come - now every day there are eight changes.
• September apples smells, and October is fresh cabbage.
• Mokr September, so full.
• If it's gray in the morning, then wait for the red day.
• In October, the strongest sheet for a tree will not hold.
• In September, the last berry, and that rowan.
• In November, you will not go by a cart or you will not get a sleigh.

Quiet sleep of all living things

Proverbs were not forgotten about the seasons and the winter. Much has been said about the coldest period of the year: both good and bad. But despite this, one thing remains unchanged: it is also part of the great cycle of life.

• The more snow, the better the crops.
• Take care of your nose, or you'll get a pinched frost.
• Two old friends - frost and blizzard.
• No matter how hard you try, you can not send winter to foreign lands.
• Winter lazy frosts.
• The winter sun shines brightly, but it does not warm at all.
• The month of January is the frosty king.
• Snow is the keepers of the fields.
• Such a frost that the stars in the sky dance.
• There is no such winter that will never end.
• Warm January always goes sideways.
• February is the builder of bridges, and March is their destroyer.
• The colder the winter, the faster spring will come.
• Snowstorm in winter for custom.