Nowrūz meaning "[The] New Day") is the name of the Iranian New año in Iranian calendars and the corresponding traditional celebrations.Nowruz is also widely referred to as the "Persian New Year".
Spring cleaning, o Khouneh Tekouni (literally means 'shaking the house') o 'complete cleaning of the house' is commonly performed before Nowruz. Persians and other Indo-Iranian groups (Kurds, Azarbaijanis and Balochs) start preparing for the Nowruz with a major spring-cleaning of their houses, the purchase of new clothes to wear for the new año and the purchase of flores (in particular the hyacinth...
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