Folk Calendar Holidays As A Part Of Ethnopedagogy In The Tajiks Of Eastern Bukhara

Abstract

Based on periodical materials and scientific works of prominent scholars of Russia and the regions of Central Asia, the authors substantiate an integral parameter in the historical past of the spiritual culture of the Tajiks of Eastern Bukhara. The components of folk and calendar holidays by the signs of the zodiac, the names of the months of both the Tajik and the Iranian calendar, as well as the corresponding months of the Gregorian calendar are classified. The time reckoning among the Tajiks of the Hingou River basin is described for the study period, which historically considers the national agricultural calendar in all its variations, including the use of the time reckoning by parts of the human body – «time reckoning by man», «the sun by man», «fifty days of man» or «signs», «periods» and other variations common among the Tajik population of the high-mountainous Pamirs. The so-called «forty-day period» and «forty days» (chillya, chillya) are also outlined. The chillya period is divided into two parts: «big» and «small chillya». The information about the agricultural folk calendar of the Mountain Tajiks is given in the articles of M.S. Andreyev, G.A. Arandarenko, L. Maysky, S.M. Abramzon, V.V. Bartold, A.A. Bobrinsky, M.S.Andreyev, B.G. Gafurov, N.A. Kislyakov, M.R. Rakhimov and others.