What festival is Xinjiang New Year called?

Xinjiang Uygur compatriots celebrate the New Year on March 2 1, which means the arrival of spring, just like the vernal equinox. Uighurs and Tajiks

Ethnic minorities such as Tatars, Kazakhs and Uzbeks celebrate Nowruz Festival every year in the form of songs and dances and acrobatics.

The word "Nuruzi" originated from ancient Persia and Central Asia and has a history of at least 3,000 years. People who once lived a nomadic and semi-nomadic life will use this traditional festival to celebrate the beginning of a new life when the snow and ice melt, the vegetation turns green and the livestock give birth. Traditionally, the most important thing in Nowruz Festival is to cook Nowruz rice. In the open air, people put nine kinds of grains, nine kinds of vegetables and various condiments into a big pot to cook thick porridge. "Nuoruzimi" means to cherish the memory of hard thoughts and wish the grain harvest and the prosperity of six livestock. After Nowruz Festival, the busy spring ploughing production began.

Nowruqi Festival is equivalent to the Spring Festival, and it is a traditional festival handed down by Kazaks since ancient times. According to historical records, in A.D. 177, the book "Records of the Western Regions" said: Keiko, old and young, men and women, dressed in bright clothes, each with a velvet flower on his hat, is very high everywhere outside the territory, women are watching, men are galloping and shooting, ancient music, dancing and drinking are jumping, and the sun is scattered. In addition, in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, "Nowruz Festival" was included in the folk custom project of intangible cultural heritage.