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The Tabarian New Year, or neowrez, is an event occurring in the pintek days of the Tabarian Calendar, Pintek in the Mazandarani language of Iran, means pentad since in Mazanderani calendar year is divided to 12 months consisting of 30 days and one pentad days. often beginning on March 21.
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Neowrez Khani
Introduction
Neowrez Khani is believed as one of most popular and strong traditions of the Mazanderani people that is celebrated by singing about welcoming spring, ordinary lyricism consisted of the following sentences.
Wehareon wa Biyamow / Neowrez Sowltan Biyamow
Mejeda Hadein She Dusston re / Gol Biyamow Goleston remeans
Feel the Wind of Spring / Feel the Entrance of Neowrez
Give Congratulate to your Friends / Flower comes to FlowerageThe source of all lyricism are about periodically entrance of spring. Since there are different groups schedule to singing, Therefore singing groups could be find everyday in the same neighborhood.
Ways And Means
About 15 days before spring several groups establish for this program, they go every where and almost every home, to gifting people joy, Although it is optional to appreciating by gifts but, people give them back some gifts instead, or invite them to eating their sweets, candies, eggs, peas, and some other, but not monies, Since in the mazanderani culture it is disrespectful to appreciation by monies.
Mej Yarnin
Mej Yarnin, means doing any action that could help making the new year as good year normally could be prays and wishes.
Petram Sewresh
People enjoy to be festive in the last Wednesday of winter, people call the day Kal Char Shenba. Each family provide firewood for burning to making fire in front of their house. Then every person jumps over it, and then wishes that sadness goes and joys come by telling this Mazanderani sentence: Burea Qa o Biyea Shadi. meaning sadness to go and joy to stay. A soup will be cooked in almost all of the homes which is known as Ach, Although all cook it, but people gift it to each other specially their neighbourhoods, They don't wash the Ach Dish, to showing their kindness to each other, this belief however has mazanderani cultural background.
Hanging Out Festival
On the 13th day of spring, women of the same village (also relatives and friends from neighbouring villages) gather in the same area
to spend time and have fun. In another area of the community,
men have a wrestling competition that lasts from morning till evening.
See also
Tabarian Culture
- Tabarian or Mazandarani people
- Tabarian Music
- Tabarian Calendar
Other
- Iranian new year
- Kurdish celebration of Newroz
References
- Dr. Sadeq Kia, 1937, Tabarian Calendars and Festivals (Gahshomari va Jashnaye Tabari -Persian-)
External links
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