Editing Bulgarians (section)

===Folk dress and music===
[[File:Sv%C4%9Bt_knihy_-_bulharsk%C3%BD_folklorn%C3%AD_soubor_135.JPG|thumb|Bulgarian folk dancers in a national costume with embroidery on the penultimate row of the aprons showing the most spread Slavic cryptogram [[Bur]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rusorn.ru/%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B8-%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82/|title=Значение узоров и орнаментов – Русские орнаменты и узоры|date=21 November 2013|trans-title=The meaning of patterns and ornaments|website=Russian ornaments and patterns|access-date=20 December 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121002630/http://rusorn.ru/%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B8-%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82/|archive-date=21 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> with a cross inside the rhombus representing the sun and spirals indicating rain,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etnoxata.com.ua/ru/statti-ru/ru-traditsiji/ru-simvoli-v-ornamentah-starodavnih-slovjan/ |title=Символы в орнаментах древних славян |website=Etnoxata.com.ua |date=2015-01-25 |access-date=2016-11-22 |archive-date=26 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326094125/http://etnoxata.com.ua/ru/statti-ru/ru-traditsiji/ru-simvoli-v-ornamentah-starodavnih-slovjan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which is similarly represented as the ''Rising Sun''<ref>В. В. Якжик, Государственный флаг Республики Беларусь, w: Рекомендации по использованию государственной символики в учреждениях образования, page 3.</ref> [[:File:Flag of Belarus (ornaments).svg|decorative pattern]] of the [[Flag of Belarus]]. Similar carpet patterns appear on the [[Flag of Turkmenistan]] ultimately derived from ancient [[Persian carpet|Persia]].]]
Bulgarian folk costumes feature long white robes, usually with red embrdoiery and ornaments derived from the Slavic [[Rushnyk|Rachenik]]. 
The costume is considered to be mainly derived from the dress of the [[ancient Slavs]], the female dress with the overgarments joined at the shoulders that evolved from [[Sarafan]] and all the types of [[Sukmana|sukman]], saya and [[apron]]s fasten at the waist are said to be directly descended from the ancient Slavs only with negligible mutation.<ref name="max"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mellish|first1=Liz|title=Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Vol 9: East Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=9781847883988|page=PART 5: Southeast Europe, Bulgaria: Ethnic Dress|quote=Bulgarian women's dress include overgarments that are joined at the shoulders and are considered to have evolved from the sarafan. (the pinafore dress typically worn by women of various Slav nations). This type of garment includes the soukman and the saya and aprons that fasten at the waist that are also attributed to a Slavic origin.|title-link=Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion|year=2010}}</ref> The women's head-dress, which turned to be a must for the Bulgarian costume is a decoration with flowers optionally on a headband, that distinguishes all the Balto-Slavic peoples and is not found in western cultures. The male dress is of likewise origin, usually [[Riza]] "robe",  poyas "belt", poturi "full-bottomed breeches" typical for the Slavs and often a [[Opanak|tsarvul]] and [[kalpak]] for shoes and jacket. Among the most similar relatives of the latter for example is [[Ukrainian Culture#Jewelry|Ukrainian]] hutsul, but the kalpak is attributed to Ottoman influence. The male skirt [[fustanella]] appears on the dress only of the [[Macedonian Bulgarians]] and is of indigenous Balkan origin or influence. In some dress of [[Thrace]] the symbol of the snake as in medieval tombs is found and is considered a Thracian cultural legacy and belief.<ref name=ivanichka/>

Folk songs are most often about the nymphs from Bulgarian and [[West Slavs|West Slavic]] mythology ([[Samodiva (mythology)|samovili]]) and the epic heroes (yunaks).<ref name="auto"/> Instruments [[Gadulka]], [[Gusle|Gusla]], [[Duduk]], [[gaida]] [[Dvoyanka]] are analogous to other Slavic [[gudok]], [[Pipe (instrument)|dudka]] and [[Dvodentsivka]]. [[Kaval]] is common in the Balkans and Turkey and is akin to Arab [[Kawala]], as well as Tapan, Goblet Drum, [[Zurna]]. The most spread dance is a [[circle dance]] called [[horo (dance)|horo]] and [[khorovod]]. Songs are generally loud. Recent eastern influences from the genre music [[chalga]] and [[turbo-folk]] even brought a prestige for the masculine voices of females.

[[Valya Balkanska]] is a folk singer thanks to whom the [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian speech]] in her song "[[Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin]]" will be played in the [[Outer space]] for at least 60,000 years more as part of the [[Voyager Golden Record]] selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.