Orderliness in the romanian villages

• Author: Gheorghe Rosculet
• Position: Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 119-124

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 8 (57) No. 2 - 2015

ORDERLINESS IN THE ROMANIAN

VILLAGES

Gheorghe ROŞCULEŢ1

Abstract: Life of the Romanian villages, preserved in th e framework

of unchangeability and of the things made to last, unfolded under the

nurturing of orderliness. Orderliness has been since the beginning the ruling

principle of the entire country life; it has remained life-giving for balance,

harmony, solidarity and energy in this sane community called „village”. It is

this orderliness that has created a sane, customary lifestyle, soaked in old

patterns that have ingrained rural communities under their protection;

patterns that have given these communities the consistency and ability to

break through in tough times.

Key words: orderliness, God’s orderliness, human orderliness.

1 Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University of Braşov.

1. Introduction

Within the Romanian area, at the

crossroads of times, beyond all temptations

and suffering, rural communities have been

bearers and preservers of some patterns or

life guides, resonant with the signs and

harmony of nature and with the power to

overcome any obstacle, so that time could

flow profusely and efficiently. These

patterns can be considered true identity

markers of the Romanian people. They

have given our villages a long-lasting

intimacy, the feeling of tranquility and

endurance so that people could keep up the

balance in hard times and stay together in

rough times; similarly, the ancient and

councelling, the object of our study, have

acted as a huge, surveying mirror, which

has reflected, lit up and kept alive those

patterns considered beneficial for the rural

community since the beginning, and it has

acted truthfully for every single generation

in a natural, harmonius lifestyle.

This corrective vaulting of the past is to

be found in the term „orderliness”. It has

secretly rendered the Romanian village „a

unique, extremely rich communion of life”

[8, p. 15] and has projected it in „the light

of eternity”, due to the fact that peasants

constantly let themselves in God’s hands,

obeyingly. To the inhabitant of the

traditional village, similarly to the

inhabitants of those remaining villages in

„the marvelous fabric”, specific to the

natural and ancient Romanian world,

orderliness is the „foundation of harmony,

balance and wisdom of universal life”, the

blessed foundation of „the One who

created all forms of life” [7, p. 60].

Therefore, orderliness integrates the

village man in the harmony of nature,

through understanding and accepting

hierarchy (cosmic, social and historical)

and through continual endeavor to

fulfill the useful things from a material and

spiritual perspective.