🇲🇩🇧🇬🇷🇴Mărțișor

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🇲🇩🇧🇬🇷🇴Mărțișor (Romanian: Mărțișor, Arum. M`arțu from Romanian: martie, "March") is a traditional holiday celebrating the arrival of spring in Moldova and Romania. It is celebrated on March 1.
On this day, people give each other small boutonnieres in the form of flowers made of white and red threads.
This decoration, as well as the holiday, is called mărțișor.
Since 1967, Moldova has hosted an international 10-day music festival, which is also called "Mărțișor".
In Bulgaria and North Macedonia, there is a holiday called Baba Marta, on this day it is customary to give similar boutonnieres, called martenitsas there.
In 2017, the holiday and its symbol in the form of a decoration were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and were recognized as belonging to Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Moldova and Romania.
According to one Moldovan legend, on the first day of March, the beautiful Spring came to the edge of the forest, looked around and saw a snowdrop named Giocel breaking through the snow in a thawed patch of blackthorn. She decided to help it and began to clear the ground around it, freeing it from its thorny branches. Winter saw this and became furious. She waved her hands, calling for a cold wind with snow to destroy the primrose. The weak flower drooped under the cruel wind. But Spring covered the sprout with her hands and pricked herself with a blackthorn. A drop of hot blood fell from her wounded hand, and the flower came to life. Thus, Spring defeated Winter. The colors of the Martisor symbolize her red blood on the white snow.