«Nauryz» means «spring's born». This is the most main and old festival for east nations. Properly speaking, the 22nd day of March is New Year in line with east calendary. It has other name, Ulys Kuni (New Year’s First Day) or Ulystyn Uly Kuni (People’s Great Day). It is believe, free celebrating of Nauryz will bring affluence and success for house for all year.
Celebrating accompanied universal fun, games, horses races and other jollity. The main ritual course of this holiday is Nauryz-kozhe, which consists of 7 ingredients, which symbolized 7 elements of live: water, meat, solt, fat, flour, grass (rise, maize/corn or wheat) and milk. This ingridients symbolizes joy, luck, wisdom, health, welfare, speed, growth and divine protection.Nauryz is a very important holiday for the Kazakhs. It marks the beginning of a New Year. It is celebrated several days starting on the 21st of March, the day of the spring equinox.
Nauryz means new day. It is celebrated in the Great Steppes from ancient times.
Nauryz symbolizes goodness and wealth, happiness and love and a great friendship day since this holiday is common to many nations.
During the Nauryz celebrations, past offences are forgiven and forgotten and everybody makes a wish to leave all bad and evil behind and get the renewal the following New Year.
The celebration of Nauryz.
During the Nauryz holiday, large and small cities, villages become festival centres, felt yurts traditional nomad houses, are erected in city centres and rich dastarkhan (table) is laid down in each of them.
City squares get full of yurts, and a lot of performances take place there. Here one can learn about the culture and lifestyle of nomads and find people wearing beautiful national costumes, listen to Kazakh songs and tunes of national musical instruments. At holiday exhibitions and fairs, traditional gifts and souvenirs are sold. Usually, young people gather around Altybakan - a kind of large national swing, colourfully decorated, near which songs are sung, and traditional games are played. During the Nauryz holiday, many famous stars give concerts in cities and towns. The holiday is completed by fireworks.
