"Nauriz" is the traditional holiday of Kazakhstan. It is one of the ancient holidays on the planet, which was celebrated more than five thousand years. This holiday was prohibited in the 1926 during the USSR governance. And only in the 1988 year it was revived again. The "Nauriz" was recognized by the UN as an national holiday; the date when the day and the night are equal.
This holiday is a symbol of love, renovation and friendship for Kazakh people. From the ancient times people were cleaning their houses, planting trees and flowers. It was thought that if "Nauriz" comes to the clean house, where live good people, then illnesses and unfortune will pass by that house.
Cloth and invitation guests are an important element too. When this big holiday comes people wear their beautiful traditional cloth and invite each other to their homes by sharing a lot of traditional food. Cloth is usually made of expensive material and covered with unimaginably gorgeous ornaments. Even if people do not go to the somebody's home they meet in the parks, on squares and say to each other "koktem tudi" which means "spring has come".
Another thing which is carried out on "Nauriz" are competitions and number "seven". When Kazakh people celebrate this big event, the number "seven" is required. The week includes seven days, which are the infinite numbers of the universe in the view of Kazakh people. Because of that reason people have to attend seven homes and invite seven guests on this day. Seven is a magic number for the Kazakh people. In addition to this unusual number various competitions are held including horse racing, poem competition, wrestling and others. The most interesting is "Aitis" which means poem competition and is accompanied with "Dombra" - national Kazakh guitar with only two strings. It makes no difference how old are you; anyone can take participation and be the best poet on that day. Only the person who praised the "goodness" at most can win. The "Aitis" is carried out till the sunrise.
So "Nauriz" is quite ancient holiday. It helps to remember our roots and to know who we are and by doing so it helps also to maintain the good relationship between other nationalities, because such holiday plays a key role of forgiveness and understanding each other like an UN which recognized it as an national holiday and as an organization which is for peace and understanding each other.
It`s so interesting to me because I don`t know about the 'Nauriz', the exotic holiday. Your detail description helps me to understand very well. And it`s amazing that the holiday has been continued about 5,000 years.
ReplyDeletethanks))) frankly speaking I did not know that it is that ancient holiday too!
ReplyDeleteYour writing is very ineteresting, i've never heard of Nauriz before.Your introduction tells your main idea and has many background information. You wrote many details on the body paragraph too. You have topic sentence in each paragrph. I like the way you ended your paragraph, it restates the main idea and makes me think about this holiday once again.
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