[re-shared] — Hey guys, it's me yuna! Your rare Iranian ;) so, basically us iranians have a special ceremony (or whatever u call it hh- ☠️) for new year, like Chinese new year / lunar new year! But ofcourse, different. Its call, Nowruz- Well, @dreamypaws posted a project about lunar new year, so I thought why not me? So, when is nowruz? It's on 20/21st of march! Yes, 20th of March, lol so nowruz is actually hwang hyunjin's birthday :0 Iranians have been celebrating nowruz for more than 3,000 years. . . Now- (pronounced noh) means new in Persian, and ruz (pronounced rooz) is day in Persian. So if u put it together- it will be 'new day'. That's why the name is nowruz, pronounces norooz ;) Before nowruz- people of Iran all start cleaning their WHOLE entire house. As its a new year, so a new clean house :D then, after they're done and nowruz starts, they go visit their relatives all around the city they live in. Each 2820 year great grand cycle contains 2137 normal years of 365 days and 683 leap years of 366 days, with the average year length over the great grand cycle of 365.24219852. This average is just 0.00000026 (2.6×10−7) of a day – slightly more than 1/50 of a second – shorter than Newcomb's value for the mean tropical year of 365.24219878 days, but differs considerably more from the current average vernal equinox year of 365.242362 days, which means that the new year, intended to fall on the vernal equinox, would drift by half a day over the course of a cycle.[43] As the source explains, the 2820-year cycle is erroneous and has never been used in practice. (Found this on Wiki pedie lmao) On the last Wednesday before Nowruz, many celebrate Charshanbe (chaharshanbe means Wednesday) Suri, a night in which they jump over fire or go to doors banging spoons to scare away bad luck. People also visit cemeteries and bring offerings for the dead, whom some believe visit before the spring rite begins. Nowruz is also an official holiday in Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia’s Bayan-Ölgii province, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and it’s widely celebrated in places like Turkey, Indian and other places with Persian enclaves. okay, so im also born on the second day of nowruz :) yay- it's holiday when it's my birthday so no school hahaha- That was all I knew!
