Navruz Holiday in Tajikistan

Hello dear all,
We are students from Sarband school#1 Tajikistan want to creat this blog and write about how we celebrate Navrooz. In our blog we will write in Tajik. English. Hope you will enjoy it. All students and teachers from our school will contribute in our blog.

Here below you can see how one of our student Madina Hakimova write essay about Navrooz.

NAVRUZ.

We celebrate Navruz on 21st of March. This holiday is tajik New Year. It’s our national holiday. Navruz mean new day. On Navruz majority of people buy new clothes and wear their clothes on the Navruz day, it’s our tradition . On Navruz people make “Sumanak”. Sumanak as a grass. From sumanak people make flat cakes. On Navruz day people cook seven dishes. It is our traditions. People make seven things on “shin” and seven things on “sin”. We celebrate our holiday in the downtown. Girls from schools always get ready beautiful nationals dancing. And they wear beautiful nationals dresses “ Chakan” and “Atlas” dresses. One girl must became a white bride of a year, she must wear white dress. And white bride mean happiness. And the other girl must to wear green dress as a spring. And green bride mean a green grass around and anew life, because in spring every things blossom and animals and birds appeared. On Navruz people bake testy cookies and lay a beautiful dastarhan with seven “shin” and seven “sin”. Navruz is a great holiday. And beside our country Navruz is celebrated widely and colorfully in Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and the western provinces of China as well as by Kurds, in turkey, Syria, and Iraq and by Tartars, and Bashkirs in southern Russia. It beginning of spring. And I like Navruz day.
Khakimova Madina. School# 2, 8th grade, Sarband town Tajikistan.