诺鲁孜节Nowruz
“诺鲁孜节快乐” “这一古老的传统新年恰逢春季到来，从西亚、中亚和南亚到高加索、巴尔干和其他地区，各地人民将以丰富多彩的习俗、仪式和庆典，迎新春、庆佳节。诺鲁孜节已被列入教科文组织《保护非物质文化遗产公约》人类非物质文化遗产代表名录。”
——联合国秘书长潘基文国际诺鲁孜节致辞
NOWRUZ CELEBRATIONS IN CHINA: XINJIANG UYGHUR
Edited by: arZan on April 1, 2009
Ceremonies, Customs, Festivities
Nowruz Festival is a traditional holiday with a long history. In Xinjiang, all national minority believe in Islam celebrate the festival. The word came from Iranian, means “Spring Water“, equating to vernal equinox (4th solar term). It falls on March 22.
Before Uyghur national minority believed in Islamism, they worshiped many gods such as sun god, moon god, star god, water god, God of the Earth, fire god (stove god), ancestor god and so on.
In their mind, the star god was the main god who was in charge of one+s fortune. Among the gods Aries is one of the gods that blessed them, while Pisces brought mankind and animals diseases. Therefore Muslim began a celebration at the time when Pisces descended and Aries raised, i.e. Nowruz festival. On that day, people of all ages get up at early morning and dress up. The head of the family lights some branches of firs and pines in the middle of the main room and whips the lighting twigs around the heads of his family members to wish them the very best of luck in the coming year. Then he puts it before the door of sock barn for domestic animals to stamp so that they will be plump and reproductive.
After sunrise, they cook a kind of porridge called “Keque” or “Chongkeque”. At noon, they begin to pay visits to each other. After sunset, they treat each other with nice dishes. Then they sing and dance to their heats+ content.
After the festival, spring ploughing begins.”
URUMQI, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Kite flying, dancing, eating sweet lamb stew and playing a game on horseback is how the Uygur people in northwest China celebrate the start of spring.
Nowruz, which means spring water, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year on the Iranian calendar. Usually falling around March 21 each year, it was celebrated Sunday this year.
Nowruz is celebrated not only by Uygurs, but also by Kazaks, Kirgizs and Uzbeks in China's western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
On Nowruz, people usually get up early and put on their best clothes. The head of the family waves burning pine and fir branches over the heads of his family members to wish them good luck in the coming year.
After extinguishing the branches, he lays them in front of the barn door for the farm animals to walk over which, according to ancient Uygur beliefs, will make the animals plump and fertile.
The traditional Nowruz stew, "Harach," is made of corn, carrots, raisins, rice, lamb and other 23 ingredients. It is usually served at lunch, and after finishing the meal people visit close relatives.
This year more than 5,000 local residents and tourists participated in a grand celebration held in Yapchan, a small county famous for the polo-like game of Buzkashi. But unlike polo, the horse riders play with a dead goat rather than a ball, and use their hands rather than sticks and pick-up and carry the goat.
"Nowruz is not just about celebrating. It also heralds the beginning of ploughing," said Uzman, a 45-year old Uygur, who played the Dutar, a two-string lute, at the Yapchan festival.
He said that he had participated in the festival for 14 years and that he noticed more and more tourists each year.
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每年的3月21日被联合国定为国际诺鲁孜节，这一天是天文学上的春分日，标志着春天的第一天。“诺鲁孜”也被称为是“撒拉哈特曼节”，“诺鲁孜”一词来自波斯语，意味“春雨日”，该
节日起源于叶尼塞河流域，它的源头是Kuntugdi（太阳重生）来自萨满教的自然时节崇拜。
如今，这个节日已成为突厥语系民族和波斯语系民族共同庆祝的主要节日，于此同时巴尔干地区、黑海盆地、高加索、中亚等地区各个民族共同庆祝这个节日已经有3000多年的历史。大多是信仰伊斯兰教之前，曾信仰过萨满教或受萨满教影响，保留有一定的原始萨满教遗存的民族。
诺鲁孜节是庆祝春天来临的节日，也是象征团结互助、和谐劳动、辞旧迎新的节日，它的形成与自然现象的规律、农牧业生产、社会生活密切相关。通过这个节日，古人了解了建设性劳动与大自然再生周期间不可分割的联系，对生命的自然本源怀着关爱和尊重的态度，是人与大自然和谐共生的原始习俗。
据不完全统计，每年庆祝这个节日的民族有五十多个，人口总数多达三亿。那么今天我们就给大家列举用几个民族语言“诺鲁孜节快乐”怎么说。
▌Azerbaijan（阿塞拜疆）
Novruz bayramınız mübarek olsun
▌巴什基尔（巴什科尔特）
Нәүрүз байрамы мөбәрәк булһын!
(Neürüz bayramı möberek bulhın!）
▌Iran（伊朗/波斯）
بم امش زورون دیع
▌Kyrghyz（吉尔吉斯柯尔克孜）
Nooruz mayramınız kuttuu bolsun ！
▌Kazak（哈萨克）
Naurız Meyramınız Kuttı bolsın!
▌Kazan Tatar（喀山塔塔尔）
Нәүрүз мөбарәк булсын!
(Neürüz möbarek bulsın! Nevrüz kotlı bulsın!）
▌Turkmenistan（土库曼）
Nowruz baýramyňyz gutly bolsun!
▌Turkey（土耳其）
Nevruz Bayramınız Kutlu Olsun!
▌Tatar（克里米亚塔塔尔）
Navrez bayramını qutlu bolsun!
▌Tajik（塔吉克）
Наврузи шумо муборак
▌Uyghur（维吾尔）
Noruz bayram mubarak bolsun
▌Uzbek（乌兹别克）
Navro'z muborak bolsun!