ENVIRONMENT and APPLICATIONS OF THE OTTOMAN PERIOD OF CULTURE and LITERATURE FROM TURKISH WORLD Cover Image

TÜRK DÜNYASINDAN OSMANLI DÖNEMİ KÜLTÜR ve EDEBİYATINA NEVRUZ GELENEĞİ ve UYGULAMALARI
ENVIRONMENT and APPLICATIONS OF THE OTTOMAN PERIOD OF CULTURE and LITERATURE FROM TURKISH WORLD

Author(s): Ali Yakici
Subject(s): Cultural history, Turkish Literature, Sociology of Culture, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Nevruz; Turkish world; Ottoman Turkishness; cultural heritage;

Summary/Abstract: It is a well-known fact that the nature awakened from hibernation in the spring season revives by resurrecting, and the bushy tree branches are re-greened, and the seeds that induce the soil in the bosom of the heated soil sprang to re-sprout and out of the soil. This transformation in nature has touched and excited societies. Turks, this sacred awakening of nature by feasting on behalf of the culture has made it permanent. Spring, which is one of the seasons of the year, has been considered as a new day, a new era, a new day, rebirth, resurrection, rebirth, especially by people living in the northern hemisphere. Due to this adoption, the seasons gave great importance to the traditions, beliefs, myths, legends, epics, poems, stories, similar narratives, music, paintings, theater, in short culture and literature. In the periods before Christ; The Nevruz New Day/ New Year tradition, which was informed by some Chinese historians about the existence and celebration during the Hun-Oghuz period, was connected to a calendar as the beginning of the new year by Celaleddin Harzemshah, the son of the Seljuk Sultan Alpaslan. Nevruz, celebrated as the New Year by many Turkish noble peoples in central and distant Asia, has maintained its place and importance in culture, art and literature and traditional celebrations during the Ottoman period, and has constituted an important part of the cultural heritage conveyed by books and practices.

  • Issue Year: 11/2019
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 444-449
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Turkish