Every year at the end of January (Tajikistan designates January 30 as a national holiday) is a traditional festival for Zoroazid believers: the Festival of Sada.
The scene of Zoroastrians holding a Sada ceremony is spectacular.
The Persian New Year Nauruz Festival, which originated in ancient Zoroazid culture, has a history of more than three thousand years. UNESCO recognized the Intangible Cultural Heritage Catalogue in 2009. Today ethnic festivals in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Central Asia and the Caucasus, including ethnic minorities in China and Russia.
According to scriptures and traditions, Zoroastrianism holds the festival of "Sada" before the arrival of the Persian New Year, which is the Persian word for "hundred" (百) and the translation Chinese "hundred verses", which refers to fifty days and fifty nights, and then fifty days is the Persian New Year. In fact, this ritual is also a sacrifice. They also make fried buns (or oil dumplings) to serve food as a festival or ceremony. When eating, pay attention to breaking open to eat, do not take the whole, think it is polite.
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