The feeling of living nature characteristic of the rural folk painters permeates the "grass-leaves" Khokhloma painting style. Some motifs of the "grass-leaves" style are also rooted in the folklore. The juicy grasses, the vermilion flashes of cinnabar, and the graceful brush strokes depicted the quest for beauty of the country painter, his desire to show a humble grass stalk as a magic and fantastic plant braided in exquisite curls. They remind one of the images in the ancient wedding folk songs in which the "lusty golden hops" are flourishing along the path leading the bridegroom to his beloved where the "silken grasses" are bowing to them and the flowers are instantly bursting into bloom. The "grass-leaves" patterns have much in common with the Russian folk songs in their rhythms and poetical themes as the romantic feelings in them are expressed in terms of the nature images.