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NEVRUZ
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The word Nevruz is of Persian origin and is a
combination of the words nev (new) and ruz
(day), meaning new day.
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According to the old Persian calendar, it is the
first day of the year and regarded as the start
of spring, when the sun enters the house of Aries.
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Not only Nevruz Day, but also Nevruz Night has a
heavenly significance for the people of Eastern
Anatolia.
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It is believed that all creatures and things
prostrate themselves before God on this night.
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That day, every individuals fortune and future
for the next year is set out. People prepare for
the new year by wearing new and beautiful
clothes.
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Meals are cooked in the home, and mutual visits
take place.
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In the Central Anatolian region, Nevruz is called
Mart dokuzu (nine of March). On March 21,
people get up early, pay visits to graves and
make wishes. The person who intends to make a
wish collects forty stones from the graves and
puts them into a sack. He then hangs the sack on
the wall of his home, and meanwhile, makes a
wish. One year later, he looks inside the sack.
If the number of stones has risen to 41, he
believes that his wish will come true. On the
next nine of March, the stones are put back where
they were taken from.
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On Nevruz Day, people lay their tables with an
assortment of foodstuffs, play games, hold
festivities, eat painted eggs. prepare large
fires.
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Prepare large fires.
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Nevruz, which every society celebrates in forms
peculiar to itself, still exists with traditional
celebrations in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tatarstan,
the Uygur region, Anatolia and the Balkans.
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