Folk Songs
There are traces of both Anatolia and Rumelia in the formation of Edirne music culture. In addition to works such as "Kahve Yemen'den Gelir", "Top Yatağın Önü Kahve", "Sabahın Seherinde Görbilsem Yarimi", which have their roots in Anatolian lands and are expressed with the musical attitude of local artists, half of the heart of Edirne is in Rumelia.
Rumelia folk songs from Thessaloniki, Western Thrace and Skopje are played and sung with great sincerity by the local people. "Manastır Folk Song", "Alişimin Eyebrows Square", "The Danube River Says Not to Flow" are some of the Rumelia Folk Songs that Edirnians know and sing. When we say Edirne folk songs, it would be more accurate to think of the folk songs of places covering very large areas. Because this province has seen such days that the lands held by different nations today were ruled for years by the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia sitting in Edirne. Edirne, which is a transit point between Anatolia and Rumelia, lives without losing its unique aspect even though it bears traces of many cultures.
Folk songs in this region are generally in the genre of broken airs based on Hüseyni, Neva, Rast, Uşşak, Hüzzam, Eviç, Saba, hicaz and other makams in 9/8 mixed folk song method. These folk songs are sung with pleasure by everyone in engagement, wedding, imece, halva conversations and vineyard entertainments. Among the popular instruments in the region, we can count cura, bağlama, divan sazı, fiske dayire, zilli maşa, hand çalparesi, zilli darbuka, drum and zurna. In addition, there is an instrumental ensemble called fine instruments, consisting of lute, violin and darbuka, which are played at weddings. The most common folk songs are "Edirne'nin arkdı da bağlar" "Edirne'nin arkında sümbüllü bağlar" and especially the folk songs named "Edirne türküsü".
Manis
These four-line works of Turkish folk literature, whose producers are unknown, continue to develop in our region as in every corner of the country, and their number is increasing day by day. Some of these beautiful pieces, which are found only in Turkish Literature, reflect the characteristics of Thrace the most:
My hug is right,
May you be a wound in my sin
But there are many for me
I want it to be you.
Old mosque needs a pole
It takes courage to say
But I have a full stomach
My friend asks for a sow.
Neither rose nor nightingale
Neither violet nor hyacinth
It's not from anybody
My complaint is from the heart
Legends
Legends play a significant role in Edirne. For example, the honest attitude of the Turkish army, which is a historical fact, is almost mythologized. The fact that the writings of the old Old Old Mosque were written by the painter father, the construction of the Selimiye mosque and the legends about Sinan the Architect etc. are quite common.
Folk Tales
As with legends, stories that are passed down from day to day, from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation are quite common among the people. These stories were sometimes told as advice to children, sometimes as a parable.
Edirne beliefs
It is a fact that a person is surrounded by a circle of beliefs in society throughout his/her life between birth and death. In Edirne, the newborn child was not breastfed until three adhan had passed. When the mother's right breast is given to the child, the besmele is drawn and it is said that if he dies, he will be martyred, and when the left breast is given, it is prayed that if he stays, he will be a veteran. In many similar matters, various beliefs have been developed in matters that concern every moment of community life.
Places of sacrifice
Although it is clear in our religion that a sacrifice can only be slaughtered for the sake of Allah, some people still sacrifice a sacrifice and give it to the poor in order to make their wishes come true. These sacrifices can be made anywhere for the sake of Allah, but usually the Hıdırbaba hill and the vicinity of the tomb in Edirne are chosen.
Folk Sayings
Oil, flour, wood; his wife must be a woman.
I've lost an eye, so what can I do with an eyebrow? Give me my rose, give me my rose. He who travels is a rose, he who does not travel is ashes. My fall is gone, what should I do with winter. Don't spend five cents when you haven't seen ten. Do as much as you can, eat as much as you can. When there is a lot of mud, there is a lot of dough. The leftovers of summer are the food of winter. Are you surrounded by rich people? Is your work vast and your surroundings hungry? You run away from there. Wherever there is music, there is music. We'll laugh and sing, you go and eat. Here are the guests, behave yourselves. It rains and blows, the host slaughters geese. He washes his clothes every day, his ass is open to the wild. Hit the hoe, eat the pope. An agha should be an agha. You can't make an agha out of an oil lamp's string of wire, oil in hand and a bald head, a fence in the courtyard, dogs and dogs. There are women, plain and simple, women with goose feet, women with house beatings. November is one hundred, our front is flat, one hundred and ten land on the field, one hundred in the morning is flat, storks fly to the plain at one hundred and twenty, to the nest at one hundred and thirty, one hundred and fifty summer is certain, winter ends on November one hundred and eighty. The crane came to cut the vineyard, the crane left the gray vineyard.
Proverbs
The hunter does not lie, he throws. -When the horse is frightened, it forces the stake.-Don't spend five when you don't see ten.-The one who meets with the camel should open the door big.-Let them not say that the girl has grown up and her mother has fallen asleep.-Dolana dolana do dolana, bulana bulana eat.-Vur hoe, eat papa.-
Edirne nursery rhymes
The dog entered the mill, the miller hit the dog, the dog ate the bran and the dog ate the bran.- Abe uncle uncle uncle uncle, what a black dry yellow millet this is.-
