How nice it is to see dew on green blades of grass on a summer morning. Many photographers try to silently explain what dew is by painstakingly capturing drops of moisture on flowers, mother-of-pearl cobwebs or spreading leaves. There is a certain mystery and mystery in dew, it is always associated with freshness, a new day, youth and purity.
What is dew and how is it formed?
Dewdrops are miniature drops of water that fall on plants, soil during the coolness that comes in the evening or in the morning. To understand the mechanism of the formation of this phenomenon, you need to remember the three possible states of water, then it will become clear what dew is and how it appears.
When the air cools, the process of condensation of water vapor begins, as a result of which it turns into liquid water. Similar processes, as a rule, take place at night. After sunset ends, the earth cools rapidly, actively radiating heat. Especially abundant dew is observed in the tropics, where the air is rich in water vapor and increased thermal radiation at night helps to cool it strongly.
Dew in differentcreeds
When asked what dew is, in many traditions and teachings they point to a heavenly gift, pure and blessed. Often this natural phenomenon symbolizes spiritual rebirth, enlightenment, peace and innocence.
In China, on Mount Kun-Lun, there is a “tree of sweet dew”, they see it as a symbol of immortality. Buddhism narrates a teaching in which "Sweet dew", called amrita, is a divine nectar that has the power of immortality and descends on earthly flowers from heaven itself.
Kabbalah considers dew as a kind of resurrection. According to their teachings, the Dew of Light evaporates from the Tree of Life and revives the dead.
In ancient times, dew was directly associated with Irida, the messenger and helper of the gods. Her clothes consisted of dewdrops of all colors of the rainbow. And there was also a belief that dew is the tears of the goddess Eos.
In Christianity, dew drops symbolize the gift of the Holy Spirit, it seems to help “withered souls” to rise, gives them moisture, rebirth. Also often the word "dew" in the scriptures is understood to mean God's word.
In some cultures, girls wash their faces with dew from a hawthorn bush, they believe that such a ritual prolongs youth, others, washing their faces before dawn, make a wish.
Traditional medicine
Before, people often went out into the fields in the early morning or just after midnight and washed themselves with fresh dew. Wet linen pieces of matter and wrapped them, believing that this will improve their body. Walking through the dew barefoot was also practiced, whichstimulated sensitive points and nerve endings.
When in the old days the question was asked about what dew is and where it comes from, they answered, according to beliefs, that Nature herself sends healing moisture to man.
Night and morning dew have different properties.
It is believed that life-giving sun rays penetrate the dew in the morning and moisture drops are charged with positive ions, which actively resist colds and inflammations. And the evening dew is saturated with light reflected from the moon, these are negative electrons that resist free radicals, strengthen nerves, take care of the heart and stomach he alth.
Traditional medicine advice suggests wrapping your feet in a cloth that has been soaked in dew. This method is used for rheumatism and problems of the genitourinary system. You can wrap your hands if there are problems with the heart or blood vessels. With vegetative-vascular dystonia, they tie the head.
Poets and writers on dew
A wonderful virtuoso of words Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, who splendidly sings of Nature in his poems, did not bypass the dew either. Also, V. Kudryavtseva very vividly described this amazing natural phenomenon, asking in the last lines of her work “… what if diamonds come from dew?”. Sergei Yesenin and Balmont echoed her, and many more poets and writers told in their own way what dew is, trying to describe tiny sparkling water droplets as brightly and mysteriously as possible.
The great writer Lev NikolaevichTolstoy, who wrote whole volumes of serious and penetrating literature, once wrote a short description of dew. The story, or rather, just a few sentences, is called "What is the dew on the grass."
He very subtly, almost fabulously managed to express all the magic of a sunny morning, on which someone's bare feet merrily walk. “… diamonds are visible in the grass,” writes Lev Nikolaevich, comparing a drop of water with the most precious stone in the world. Looking through these lines, the reader is involuntarily surprised by the atmosphere created by the writer, by the way he skillfully described the leaf, which “… is furry and fluffy like velvet inside”, and how, nevertheless, simply, without too much pathos, dew became a heroine, albeit small, but works. The final sentence conveys Tolstoy's vision of what dew is: "… this dew is tastier than any drink …".
