Tonight on the old calendar Old New Year! Many people ignore this holiday, considering that the New Year is a New Year, and there is no old should no longer be what it was in the past. But Russian people let alone an excuse to have some fun and take a walk, so many celebrate this holiday as New Year! In the Penza region (and maybe in many others) is a very fun tradition of dressing up as adults who can paint their faces or wear masks and singing go on the yards, singing Kolyada, and the owners listened to the sonorous chants, have at least something to entertain the guests dressed up - give candy, cookies, cakes, and those living in poverty, those can make an onion or a vegetable! Usually adults do not want these gifts, they, you know, pour samogonochka... Well, for lack of such - of asking money... And if something does not like the mummers, they, rogues, can and nahouraii, for example - the fence break, and even worse, the window to smash! So the hostess try to shell out to inadvertently trouble not to make! So I can be prepared for different eventualities - exchanged money, baked cakes, and last night their home concocted a tasty snack cake "In Christmas style," which, not waiting for the holiday already auditioned yesterday, in the twelfth hour of the night! So now I sit and think, and not buy homogenate (we call moonshine), well, to be in the defense, away from sin....