Persian New Year

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Persian New Year Facts & Quotes

• Nowruz has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years and it is profoundly grounded in the rituals and traditions of the Zoroastrian religion.
• Nowruz is celebrated in more than one country, India, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan celebrate the holiday.
• The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.- G.K. Chesterton
• On the last Wednesday before Nowruz people address their spiritual cleanliness jumping over fire pits, and reciting a variation of the following rhyme: “Give me your beautiful red color: And take my sickly pallor.

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• Nowruz is the holiday that brings all the Persian families together. They ending up cleaning their house, repairing any fixtures or furniture on that holiday week.

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