Calendar is a necessary cultural factor in human life. This matter is made a science, profession in our day. In the past, it was shaped under the circumstances faced. As the Turks lived as a nomadic migrating society, they had to know the calendar within the rural economy. Thus, the need for calendar arose as a cultural mould.
The Turks, who made their livelihoods as connected to the soil, used a calendar in accordance with the traditions for the herding of animal herds in pasture with the beginning of the spring and the harvest period for those involved in agriculture. As it is known, the names of both the years and the months were named after animals among Turks.
The beginning of a new year is 21st March. However, as there is a 13-day difference between the Sun Year and Moon Year, 21st March caused celebrations on 9th March in some communities and those rarely on 1-3 March and 21st June in some others.
It is known that natural religions include such celebrations and make them divine. "The Beginning of the Year" or "the New Day", included sometimes in the Turkish myths (Ergenekon, Migration etc) and the sometimes beliefs in the Turkish national belief called "Shamanism" with the characteristic of Hanafite, was attempted to be included in Islam with various understandings.
Nevruz, reached from Orhun-Yenisey to the mount Altay and then to Hungary and the Balkans by the march of the Turks into Europe; and it was survived in a new geography by moving from the south of the Caspian into Anatolia and Mesopotamia after 800 AD.
According to the recent research in a new continent, the research on Indians living in America, Nevruz is celebrated in this geography with the same spirit. It is seen that this feast, coming from the past, was sought for an Islamic reason among the Muslim Turks. The beginning of the calendar was connected to Hz. Noah or Hz. Yunus or Hz. Ali by different peoples by the Shaman connection was always preserved.