What is Nowruz festival? Here is everything you need to know about it

This year, wruz will be celebrated on March 20, 2020. United Nations officially recognized wruz as an international holiday in 2010. festival marks ending of a year and also beginning of a new year.

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What is wruz festival?

wruz Festival is Iranian new year. It is also kwn as Persian New Year. This festival is celebrated worldwide with lots of joy and vigour. origins of this festival are Iranian and Zoroastrian. It is celebrated by diverse communities all over world for more than 3000 years’ w.

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Though this festival is celebrated worldwide, it is celebrated with more joy and also holds cultural importance in Western Asia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Black Sea Basin, Balkans and South Asia. wruz festival is a secular holiday that is enjoyed by people of many different faiths. It is considered as a holy day for Zoroastrians and Bahais.

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Why is wruz festival celebrated?

wruz marks beginning of new year and it happens on day of vernal equix. Every year, millions of people celebrate wruz festival to celebrate Iranian new year or Persian new year. In Iran, new year begins with vent of spring and almost everyone in country observes it by doing a thorough cleaning of ir homes to celebrate a season of new life and to wish good luck in year ahe.

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Some families also set aside a for ‘Haft-sin’. Before arrival of wruz, family members gar around and await exact moment of March equix to celebrate new year. ‘Haft-sin’ is a collection of items that symbolize different hope for new year. In India, trition dates back to era of Mughal empire in rrn India and western India it dates back to Parsi Zoroastrian community.