Nouruz

Nouruz with different kinds of literalizing like Nowruz, Noruz, Norouz means "New Day" in Persian language. The occasion is Iranian's New Year, or any other ethnic affiliated to Iranian traditions irrespective of the political distribution. The split second of shifting the old year to the new one, is the event's ultimate excitement. The day proceeding Nouruz is the first day of Iranian calendar and it is considered to be the most important event during the year. A number of customs before, during and after Nouruz are practiced among Iranians. One of them is to pay visit to family, friends and colleagues. For the family and friends these visits typically take place during the two weeks Nouruz vacation. When offices and working places will be opened then comes the visits at work place. Staff normally try first to pay visit to the direct bosses and then to each other's rooms. In these visits the priority goes to the elders in family and friends and seniors in office. And after these visits then begin a second round which the visited people should pay back the visits by lower in rank and age. This Saturday I mean the first day at work, onward, most of times we have been involved with these visits. It may be interesting to you that some of these visits should be in groups. For example one head office with his staff pay visit to another office. If you wish to know what we say during the visits, well! There are series of sentences and words like, "I whish coming year to be a prosperous year, I hope you had a fine and joyful vacations". Then a mass of kisses will convey from cheek to cheek. The number of kisses has no standard. It may be from two to even five or six, but broken from one cheek to another. Amusingly, usually the higher the position is the touching are weaker, to extend that some high authorities will barely touch the other's face. Trivia for the occasion is that, after kissing tens of men some of them with a mass of hair in their face wondering where to kiss! Teasing between buddies could be heard, the murmurs: "hope we had some kisses from the ladies too".