New year Celebration in Afghanistan By:- Students of Aino Number Two Girls High School

Table of Content How do Afghans Celebrate New Year Famous Traditions Traditional food Traditional Dress Traditional Games

How do Afghans Celebrate the New Year The first day of the new year is called Nowroz which is celebrated for two weeks in Afghanistan most often people wear new cloths, paint their houses. Young girls are going to shrines with their mother and young boys are waiting for their father where he decide to take them for having party usually the men are going out of the city to have party about 80% of them are going to Mazar-e- Sharife city where every year they put a flag.

Mazar-e- Sahrif In Mazar-e- Sharif there is a shrine of Hazrat Ali

Famous traditions The most famous tradition is to forget and forgive each other mistake. They go to their relatives homes . The symbolic traditions of Newroz or new year is Haft Mewa or seven fruits. Haft mewa is like a fruit salad

Greeting style

Haft Mewa

Traditional food Afghan women make Samanak in new year which is made of wheat germ. They cook it from late in evening until daylight and no man are allowed to take part in this ceremony.

Samanak

Traditional Dress

Traditional Games Buzkashi ( Goat Dragging) is the central Asian sport in which horse mounted players attempt to place a goat carcass in goal. And it is a national sport of Afghanistan which is being played by the people of Afghanistan.

Traditional Game

Although most of Afghan people don’t celebrate the new year or Newruz they don’t even tells happy new year to each other.

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