Holiday Tuesday before Novruz!






Preparations for Novruz (spring "New Year") begins this month. Four pre-holiday Tuesdays (or rather the night from Tuesday to Wednesday) in Azerbaijan are festive and called Su Chershenbe (Water Day), Odlu Chershenbe (day light), Torpag Chershenbe (Earth Day) and Axir Chershenbe (last day), or Yale chershenbe (the day the wind).

The first celebration - a day of water, Su Chershenbe. Accounts it is usually the last week of February. Snow on the slopes of the mountains begin to thaw, meltwater filled the river. On this day, at sunrise people went to get water to the river or to the source, washed, sprinkled with each other. Water, which slid to a ray of sunshine, according to ancient legend, is updated and the sacred, and the desires of those who redeemed it must be realized.

The second holiday - Day of Fire. In the evening from Tuesday to Wednesday in the homes of candles. They should be as much as the members of the family, and kindle a fire on the street and jump through it.
According to popular belief, the third Tuesday before Novruz revives the earth.


The last of the Tuesday evening celebration called the "Yale chershenbesi." On this day the wind reveals the buds of trees, and, according to national signs, spring comes. This is a true symbol of the wind, air, and updated the upcoming new year.


Ancient farmers identified with the awakening of nature on this day, the beginning of spring field work, a new growing season. This is the last Tuesday preceding Novruz, and many people it has a value not less than the Nowruz.


In the evening on the last Tuesday decided to wonder the children knocking on neighbors' doors, put the cap at the door and hide, and the owners of these homes have to return the hat with holiday treats.


Girls in this evening trying to find his future. It was believed that if a girl eats an apple, take it ten seeds and put it under his pillow, she sees her boyfriend in his sleep.

In a jug of water thrown by day "black" coin - a sign of unhappiness - and the evening before sunset, the water is poured together with the coins on the street.

Still it is possible this evening wondering, listening: it is necessary to go into the yard to the street, or to the doors of neighbors, clutching the keys. First heard the word interpreted depending on the make a wish. The key in hand - is the key that opens the way to the execution of desire, and heard the word will help you understand - is the desire to be fulfilled or not.


In the desire to be anyone's guess as follows: take two empty glasses and go to the neighbors to be aware of the visit. Opening the door, neighbor to silence one of the cups filled with water. If this will be the glass, on which you make a wish, it will certainly come true.
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Novruz is the happiest and the most ancient holiday in Azerbaijan, which means "A New day". It is interpreted as "the beginning of a new harvest, bread". Biruni wrote about this as well; "The things that dried became green".
There are several versions, legends and arguments about the origin of this holiday. But, all of them are accepted that it's the most ancient holiday on the Earth, coming with the vernal equinox. All they are connected with salvation. The salvation from winter, death and revival.


The first sign about the coming of spring gives the flower "Novruz gulu" - a snowdrop. The Novruz holiday is the holiday of the revival of nature. It is the time of love and the time of the peasants' labour. It is the beginnig of a preparation to the future haverst. On the eve of the holiday people clean the house, clothes, utensils. She or he has to clean not only his or her body but also his or her spirit. You go Novruz only with kind intentions and honest thoughts. 
The main symbol of Novruz is "Samani", without which you can not meet Novruz.