For many people the day of the vernal equinox was considered special. Anyway, with the increase of daylight hours and the end of winter bound St. Patrick's Day in Ireland Fallas in Spain, Qing Ming in China, Holi in India, Ostara in Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, and so on. D. This is no accident. Behind remained cold winter, and with it the long, dark nights, illness, death, danger, do not have enough supplies to hold out until the next harvest. Dark forces retreating under first spring sun rays.
March 21 Turkic and Iranian peoples are celebrating Nowruz - New Year's astronomical solar calendar, one of the oldest celebrations of spring in the world. It has no direct relationship to the Islamic traditions and rooted in hoary antiquity.
A September 30, 2009, Novruz was included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Let's talk more in detail, with some customs, traditions and superstitions associated with this holiday.
Where and how to celebrate Nowruz?
Nowadays Novruz holiday is celebrated in many Middle Eastern countries, the representatives of the peoples who lived there before the arrival of the Arabs, and the spread of Islam. For example, in Syria it is forbidden to celebrate, and in Turkey, the ban was lifted only in 1991.
On this day seven housewives cook meatless dishes of wheat, beans, beans, millet and other cereals, as well as put on the table a variety of sweets and dried fruits. In many countries, a traditional dish at this holiday is sumalyak - dessert from germinated wheat. They are ground and cooked with the addition of cottontop oil, flour and sugar almost daily in a cauldron.
The symbol of the holiday is the wheat germ - the young shoots to decorate tables. Some peoples of the holiday and decided to paint the eggs and put them on the table before the mirror. It is a symbol of origin of life, the completion of the old and the beginning of the new.
Also, people believed that on this day, we can be cleansed from all your sins. To do this, they kindled fires in the street, which is thought to burn up all the vices. Happened to the purification necessary to jump through the flames seven times.
signs holiday
Novruz, like any other national holiday, it is associated with Signs and superstition. For example, as the Novruz holiday is considered to be a family - it is necessary to spend it with relatives. If you dare to meet him outside the home - will spend the next seven years away from the family.
The holiday can not be met in a dirty house retracted - this will lead to poverty and misery. Also that itfirst happened it is impossible to enter the Novruz debts.
In addition, it was thought that the weather in Novruz is possible to determine what will be the whole year. The first day of the festival is the spring, the second day - Summer, third - and fourth autumn - winter. So, for example, if the first day was rain, windless, the upcoming spring will be favorable for field work. And if there was a rain, it was overcast, and the spring is expected to be the same. Happiness, love and harmony to you and your loved ones!
And be sure to ask, with some signs of the children, even the doctors agree.
