Navroz - The Persian New Year

Navruz is also known as the Persian New Year. In 539 BC, the Jews came under Iranian rule, thus exposing both groups to each other's customs. Nowruz is thought to have first been celebrated between 555–330 BC.

Navruz is celebrated and observed by Iranic peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, Caucasus, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some groups in the Balkans.

Newroz (or Nevruz) is largely considered as a potent symbol of Kurdish identity in Turkey, even if there are some Turks (including Turkmens) celebrating the festival. The Kurds of Turkey celebrate this feast between 18th till 21 March.

The Parsi New Year is celebrated as Jamshed Navroz by the entire Parsi community across the world.

Before Nowruz arrival People start preparing for Navruz with House cleaning, or shaking the house and the purchase of new clothes to wear for the New Year and also purchase of Flowers Hyacinth and the tulip are popular.

Parsis believes their house with different symbols like stars, butterflies, birds and fish. They order and make new attires especially for the festival and Parsis people decorate the doors and windows with garlands of roses and jasmines,  and also use rangoli on the steps and thresholds.

Parsi People on the day of Navroz, they dress in their new and best clothes and put on gold and silver kustis and caps.

The following dishes and sweets are prepared on Navruz:-

• A Noodle soup traditionally served on the first day of Navruz.
• Chicken farcha, a typical Parsi dish of fried chicken.
• Dolma a traditional dish of Azeri people, cooked just before the New Year. It includes vegetables, meat and rice which have been cooked, then rolled in grape leaves and cooked again.
• Sabzi polow with fish, A traditional New Year's Day meal of rice with green herbs, served with fish.
• Ajil a Persians Kurds also on this day.
• Baklava A flaky pastry filled with walnuts, almonds or pistachios, and flavored with rosewater.
• Falooda  Parsis Dessert a sweet milk drink made from vermicelli and flavored with rose essence.
• Lagan-nu-custard with sweet pastries also made on this special day.