Navruz in Uzbekistan

March 21 is the main celebration, but for the next 13 days it is common practice to visit friends and relatives, buy and plant seedlings of fruit trees and have cheerful gatherings in the fresh spring air. Traditionally, it is also a time to "clean up" one's life.

• March 21 is the main celebration, but for the next 13 days it is common practice to visit friends and relatives, buy and plant seedlings of fruit trees and have cheerful gatherings in the fresh spring air. Traditionally, it is also a time to "clean up" one's life.
• People tidy up their homes, wash rugs and draperies, decorate with flowers, and buy new clothes that they will use for visiting. On the day of Navruz, all housekeeping - including the preparation of the meal, careful cleaning of the home and the arrangement of blossoming branches from apricot, peach, almond or pomegranate trees - must be completed before the rising of the morning star.

Navruz the nature awakens from her long winter sleep. Farmers begin their work in the fields. Traditionally people try to be kind to each other, try to help, visit the orphans and old people who need care and help.

• Navruz the nature awakens from her long winter sleep. Farmers begin their work in the fields. Traditionally people try to be kind to each other, try to help, visit the orphans and old people who need care and help.
• In Uzbekistan everybody plants trees, flowers and make their home clean, beau­tiful. People prepare special spring dishes in Navruz, such as sumalak, halim, somsa, chuchvara with young green grass.