New Year

I think, everybody has New Year mood now and everybody gets ready for the holiday. That is way I want to tell you something about New Year, but as always  about something Muslim.
In Muslim countries it's called Navrez and it's celebrated in spring.
Nowruz or Navrez (in Crimean Tatar) is celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox, March 20 or 21 depending on the year. It has been widely celebrated for more than 3,000 years in Central Asia and the Middle East. Today the people in the Balkans, Crimea, the Caucasus, Iran, Turkey and the Central Asian republics participate in Nowruz festivities. Throughout the Turkic world, the arrival of spring has been celebrated under different names: Nowruz, Nevruz, Navruz, Navrez, Nawrez, Nooruz, Noruz, Yıl Başı (New Year), Yeni Gün (New Day), Ulusun Ulu Günü (Great Day of the Nation) and Ergenekon Bayramı (Ergenekon Holiday). In this article, I am using the word Nowruz because it is the frequently used version in English.

Nowruz Celebrations in Crimea

Before the Soviet rule and the deportation from their homeland, Crimean Tatars actively celebrated the arrival of spring. During the long years of exile, if they observed Nowruz, it was likely in the privacy of their homes. With the return of the Tatar population to their homeland, the Nowruz festivities are being revived in Crimea. The Cultural Center in Kerch (Crimea) announced an ambitious program of drama, music and various competions to celebrate the traditional Navrez holiday. In Simferopol, the Republican Committee for Interethnic Relations and Formerly Deported Citizens, the State TV Company 'Krym' and the Crimean Tatar Art and Ethnography Foundation organized an all-day Nowruz celebration on March 20, 2010. Activities included traditional dancing and music, kuresh (wrestling), a fashion show exhibiting national dresses and display of handcrafts. Various embroidery guilds also participated in the Nowruz festivities. The Azeri people living in Simferopol joined the Crimean Tatars and brought many sweets traditionally prepared for Nowruz. 

Tatar food

The Crimean Tatars have a very rich cuisine. This wealth is the product both of their own inventiveness as well as the fact that they have lived in among several other cultures.
Meat is cooked in its fat until all the water is gone, fish are salted or dried, fruits are made into preserves or compotes, and vegetables are pickled or in the case of tomatoes and peppers, reduced to paste for storage.

Special days such as circumcisions, birthdays, engagements, weddings, births, deaths etc. are very important to the Crimean Tatars. On such days various meat dishes are prepared communally, along with various sweet and savory baked foods such as börek, cookies and pastries.

Green tea and coffee are heavily consumed. Green tea is made by pouring boiling water to a porcelain pot and adding a certain amount of green tea. The tea is poured three times into a small porcelain tea bowl, then returned to the teapot, then drunk with no further steeping. It is believed that making green tea in this way will bring abundance and plenty.

Tea and especially coffee is served accompanied by chocolate, various preserves and cookies.

So lets continue your acquaintance with culture of East.
Now I want to tell you about India. Oh, my India. I love you so much. It has been being my dream to visit it for 5 years. And I'm sure, I'll do it. You should know, it's the most beautiful country. Not just bc of wonderful nature.It really is

, but people in India are completely different. Theu have another mentality. They lived by the rulre: "You should defeat fury with  the help of love, you should replay with good on somebody's evil and you should defeat stinginess with the help of generosity." That is what I mean. They have something that our people don't.
 So lets talk about their culture, as it was mentioned earlier, they are very religious. On of their main holidays is the holiday called Diwali. Here is the most beautiful Indian dance I've ever seen.

 

I love this country, I do love it. It's  tremendous. I want to learn Hindi. I've even added one indian girl on Facebook. She started teaching me it.

In the end I want to tell you about one of the most interesting custom that Indians have. It's wedding.

Indian weddings are very bright events, filled with ritual and celebration, that continue for several days. They are generally not small affairs, with anywhere between 100 to 10,000 people attending. Oftentimes it is possible that many of the attendees are unknown to the bride and groom themselves. Though most Indian marriages are arranged, some couples in urban areas have what are known as "love marriages", where the partners decide to marry each other without family involvement or assistance. The traditional Indian wedding is more about two families being brought together socially, with much less emphasis on the individuals involved.

Many of the wedding customs are common among Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and even Muslims. They are a combination of local, religious and family traditions.


Indian wedding.

Indian bride.

There is  an interesting  custom.The hands of bride are are covered with drawings made of henna.

  I hope you'll understand me and my passion, maybe you can't imagine what do I feel, but still just try to, please.

mad idia

5 minutes ago I understood what do I want to share with. But first you should know that I have a big passion of all my short life. It's culturology, exactly Easten culturology. So I just want to begin from my own nation, it's Crimean Tatar. If you read this artical, you will understand, Tatars can be different, personaly I belong to the Tats. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPgo6nMIBNg&feature=related this is the most popular tatarian song, every tatar cries, when he/she hears this song. It shows as all terrible thing wich had been done with all  nation in 1944 when all Crimean Tatars were deported en masse, in a form of collective panishment, on 18 May 1944 as special settlers to Uzbek Republic and other distant parts of the Soviet Union. That song  is as national hymn of our people, and this is our flag. In the end I just want to say that Crimean Tatar is a very

 

proud nation, and I don't know anybody who is not proud of being Tatar and Muslim. To be true it's veru difficult to keep safe your culture in Russian and Ukrainian encirclement....

for theatre lovers

http://www.0652.in.ua/afisha/full/1120

i went to the theatre this Tuesday. It was wonderfull, i want to go there again and again. The play was splendid, the actors and decorations were marvellous. The actors have great voices, and the ballet was inimitable in its beauty....so hope you will see it by your own eyes, you would not regret, i'm sure.

interesting information for curious people

http://www.amalgama-lab.com/ it's a link on one usefull for translators site. Here you can check through a lot of patters on any sound you have problems with, there are also a lot of Russian, English and German proverbs. You can also find here a great amount of songs translations. If you are really interested you can publish there your own translations.