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Christians celebrate Easter and Christmas. Esala Perahera (A-suh-luh peh-ruh-ha-ruh) is a grand festival in the month of Esala held in Sri Lanka. [1] Happening in July or August in Kandy, it has become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consisting of dances and richly decorated
People typically spend weeks preparing for Nowruz, mostly by spring cleaning. During the festival, family visits and communal meals are common, along with gift exchanges. There are also ways of ...
The festival of Nowruz is celebrated by many groups of people in the Black Sea basin, the Balkans, the South Caucasus, Western Asia, central and southern Asia, and by Iranian peoples worldwide. [92] Traditional Nowruz dance performance at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, 2011. Places where Nowruz is a public holiday include:
The arrival of spring has been celebrated in Asia Minor since neolithic times.The root of this story goes back to ancient Iranian legends, retold in General History by scientist Dinawari, [15] The Meadows of Gold by Muslim historian Masudi, [16] the Shahnameh, a poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 AD, and the Sharafnameh by the medieval Kurdish historian Sherefxan Bidlisi.
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Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda (Sinhala: අලුත් අවුරුද්ද) in Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan holiday that celebrates the traditional New Year of the Sinhalese people and Tamil population of Sri Lanka. It is a major anniversary celebrated by not only the Sinhalese and Tamil people but by most Sri Lankans.
While the festival originated in India, the same spread across other countries with significant Tamil diaspora. [24] It is celebrated in a much larger scale in some of the countries outside India. [1] It is celebrated in Sri Lanka, [13] Myanmar, [25] and countries in Southeast Asia notably in Malaysia, [26] Singapore, [27] and Indonesia. [28]
The Kandy Esala Perahera (the Sri Dalada Perahara procession of Kandy) also known as The Festival of the Tooth is a festival held in July and August in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This historical procession is held annually to pay homage to the Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha housed at the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy. A unique symbol of Sri Lanka, the ...