Today’s Google Doodle Nowruz 2024 : Happy Nowruz 2024
This Nowruz 2024 Google Doodle, illustrated by guest artist Pendar Yousefi, celebrates Nowruz, or the new year. It’s a lively springtime festival that promotes peace, respect, kinship, and the harmony between life and nature.
Nowruz is the Iranian or Persian New Year celebrated by various ethnic groups worldwide. It is a festival based on the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar, on the spring equinox—on or around 21 March on the Gregorian calendar.
About the Doodle:
The annual festival has been around for over 3,000 years. The earliest origins of Nowruz trace back to ancient Iran (then Persia). It was held on the spring equinox to mark the start of the blooming season. As time went on, several countries and ethnic groups along the Silk Roads started adopting the tradition.
During Nowruz, the most important tradition is the haft-sīn. Families gather and set out seven items that each represent renewal and rejuvenation. These items usually include wheat for rebirth and good fortune, wheat pudding for power and strength, olive for love, berries for the sunrise, vinegar for age and patience, apple for beauty, and garlic for good health.
Happy Nowruz 2024!
About the Nowruz 2024 Doodle
This Doodle, illustrated by guest artist Pendar Yousefi, celebrates Nowruz, or the new year. It’s a lively springtime festival that promotes peace, respect, kinship, and the harmony between life and nature. More than 300 million people gather around the world on this day each year to celebrate the season of rebirth.
Overview
The first day of the Iranian calendar falls on the March equinox, the first day of spring, around 21 March. In the 11th century AD the Iranian calendar was reformed in order to fix the beginning of the calendar year, i.e. Nowruz, at the vernal equinox. Accordingly, the definition of Nowruz given by the Iranian astronomer Tusi was the following: “the first day of the official New Year was always the day on which the sun entered Aries before noon.” Nowruz is the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar, which is the official calendar in use in Iran, and formerly in Afghanistan.
While Nowruz has been celebrated since the reform of the Iranian calendar in the 11th century CE to mark the new year, the United Nations officially recognized the “International Day of Nowruz” with the adoption of Resolution 64/253 by the United Nations General Assembly in February 2010
