Customs Mazandaran

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Aagh Naneh

Aagh Naneh

Aagh Naneh is one of the ballads of Mazandaran Province. It is cited in different narrations. Some believe that the ballad of Aagh Naneh is the story of a man who fell in love with Aagh Naneh, the daughter of a rich man, but he could not ask for marrying him because he was not single. ...

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Arous Gale Ceremony

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Aaros Gooleh is a very ancient ceremony performed in the West of Mazandaran Province. Aaros Gooleh is a play usually performed by three persons called Ghool, Pir Babo, and Naaz Khanom. They play some happy and folkloric stories for the people. The Ghool, giant, is the symbol of darkne...

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Bahar Narenj Festival

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Baj khaleh

Baj khaleh

Ladybird is a beautiful red insect with black spots on its wings. An ancient fiction in Mazandaran says that when one takes a ladybird from the grass, bush, or farm and put it on his palm, the direction of its moving on the finger shows the future travel destination of that person! Wh...

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Bisht Vash

Bisht Vash

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Blossom festival

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Blossom festival in Amol Ceremonies Teti (bloom) in the village culture enthusiasts attended summer Rineh in Amol, Mazandaran held customs. It is celebrated every year on the occasion of blooming trees in the spring to hold symbolic traditional wedding soup and bread baking is held loc...

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Borago officinalis

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Candelous Village Celebration

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Hajjoneh

Hajjoneh

Hajjoneh People across Iran have their own beliefs. People in Savadkuh region in Mazandaran have a belief called Hajjoneh. Hajjoneh is a deed like benefaction or charity by ordinary people. People in Savadkuh city, in center of Mazandaran Province, believe that they should give cha...

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Jemeh

Jemeh

Jemeh There are traditional dressings in every part of the country, Iran. People of Mazandaran Province have their own traditional folkloric clothes as well. One of the traditional clothes of local people of Mazandaran Province is called Jemeh or Jomeh, meaning shirt or dress. Je...

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Kharmam Celebrating

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Lachek

Lachek

Lachek There are traditional dressings in every part of the country, Iran. People of Mazandaran Province have their own traditional folkloric clothes as well. One of the traditional clothes of local women of Mazandaran Province is called Lachek meaning head scarf. Lachek is tied on t...

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Language and dialect

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Indigenous peoples of the region include the ethnic Mazanderanis speaking an Iranian Language which most resembles Gilaki and Sangiseri. Mazanderani (in Mazandarani: Mäzeruni) or Tabari is an Iranian Language of the Northwestern branch, spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran, Tehran and ...

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lNorouz Khani in Mazandaran

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Reading New Year or Spring recital or the kind of singing that has prevailed in the past . At present the origin of this species singing in Mazandaran and Gilan provinces that will be very limited . After the arrival of Islam and the Shiite religious concepts and narratives song of th...

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Louchu Wrestling

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The Lou Chu wrestling is among the sports which increases the morale of heroism and valiancy in sportsmen. It has long been practiced in Mazandaran province and has become a part of culture of the people in the region. Louchu is consisted of two words: lou (edge) and chu (wood), i.e....

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Mâr Meh

Mâr Meh

The Maderme Custom The first day of each Tabari (ancient calendar of Mazandaran) is called Maderme. It is usual that every home gets someone who is believed to be felicific to enter the home first to home and not everyone in before him. In past time, grandparents were very committ...

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Mazandarani's Bride

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In the past, rarely boys had the right to choose his future wife. And parents decided to choose a girl as wife for their sons. First, they said about their decision about the selected girl to their son. And, if the son was disagree about the selection, for timidity and modestyhe had...

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Mazandaran's customs

Mazandaran's c...

One of the most interesting traditional dresses is the Mazandarani dress. The Mazandaran region lies to the north of Iran, in the area of the Caspian Sea, north of Tehran. The region is filled with farmlands and engages in agriculture. The Costume of Mazandaran consists of trousers an...

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Mazandaran's Folk Music

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Mountainous bread

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Na'sh

Na'sh

Na'sh (corpse) is played at the eve of wedding. Players sit at a room and amongst them a person lies down on the floor on his back. Then he put one foot on another and clinches his hands under his head. A player among the players stands up to raise the corpse. He should raise him ...

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Nesha Celebrating

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Each year people of Mazandaran Province in North of Iran hold a ceremony to celebrate the new season of planting rice. The celebration begins with playing drums and trumpets and forming a carnival of women in traditional dressings. The carnival heads towards the rice fields and congra...

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Palenge Laash

Palenge Laash

Palenge Laash is played at the eve of wedding party. Players sit down at a room, amongst them one sits down on the floor, rises his feet from the back of his head and touches the toes with his fingers. He is called Palenge Laash. Another person should try to take him down. If he succe...

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Picking up Gazneh

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Poshte zik

Poshte zik

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Rich chicken

Rich chicken

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Rich Fish ( Mahi Shekam Por )

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This dish is full of fragrant native herbs with carefully home cooked Pomegranate paste and sun-dried Pomegranate seeds. Ingredients: Whole fish, cleaned Oil for frying For Stuffing: One bunch Coriander or Cilantro, finely chopped Quarter of a bunch Parsley, finely chopped 1 ...

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Sheliteh

Sheliteh

Each country has its customs and traditions which are very attractive for the fans of culture and history of a land. The local women of rural areas of Mazandaran Province, in North of Iran, wear some traditional clothes and dresses. One of them, which might be the most known wearing, ...

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The Celebration of Fardine Maahe Sho

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The Celebration of Fardine Maahe Sho Fardine Maah is the first month of the ancient Tabari calendar of Mazandaran and the beginning of the New Year. It is coincident with the month Mordad of official Iranian Jalali calendar; it begins 15 days before the celebration of the dead in Mazan...

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The Celebration of Tirgan

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The Celebration of Tirgan is hold on the 13th evening of the month Tir according to the ancient calendar of Mazandaran, which is coincident with the 12th evening of the month Aban according to the official Jalali calendar of Iran. The Celebration of Tirgan (also called Tir Maah Sizde ...

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Tomban ( Pants )

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Tomban (Pants) Each country has its customs and traditions which are very attractive for the fans of culture and history of a land. Local people in rural areas of Mazandaran Province, in North of Iran, wear some traditional clothes and dresses. One of them is a kind of pants is cal...

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Torsh Sumac

Torsh Sumac

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Traditional Bread

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Varfechal Traditional Ceremony

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Waistcoat

Waistcoat

People usually have their traditional clothing and dresses in every country. Local people of Mazandaran Province in North of Iran have had their own traditional colthings as well. One of them which women wear is called Nim Taneh or Jelizgheh. It is a Waistcoat which women wear espec...

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Walnut Playing

Walnut Playing

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Yalda Night ( Cheleh sho )

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Yalda is one of the ancient most celebrated events in Iran which marks the longest night of the year and arrival of winter. Every year, on December 21st, Iranians celebrate the arrival of winter, the renewal of the sun and the victory of light over darkness on yalda night. Iranians a...

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