The holiday Novruz is celebrated in connection with arrival of spring and is devoted to a joyful event – end of winter and approach of spring.

Celebration of  Novruz means a meeting of new year, the first day of spring.

Awakening of the nature begins with Novruz, and the Azerbaijani people mark out him very solemnly, a month before its arrival. So, on Tuesdays every week Torpag and Akhyr  chershenba – respectively Tuesdays Waters, Fire, Earth and the Last (holiday) Tuesday are marked out Water, Fire According to national legends, on the first Tuesday water and water sources are updated and start moving; on the second Tuesday by means of Fire, in the third – Earth, and in the fourth – Winds bulk up kidneys on trees, and all this foretells arrival of spring.