{{Short description|Chuvash holiday at Christmastime}} '''Surhuri''' ({{langx|cv|Сурхури}}) is a Chuvash holiday, dedicated to celebrating the new year.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ashmarina |first1=Svetlana Igorevna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SjoDwAAQBAJ&dq=Chuvash+Surhuri&pg=PA227 |title=Current Achievements, Challenges and Digital Chances of Knowledge Based Economy |last2=Mantulenko |first2=Valentina Vyacheslavovna |date=2020-05-29 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-47458-4 |language=en}}</ref> The name may also be designated to Christmas celebrations in areas where traditional paganism was replaced by Christianity. The word ''Surhuri'' (Upper Chuvash people pronounce it as "Sorhori") means "a sheep leg". Similarly, pagans of the Mari people celebrate and call this holiday ''Shorok yol'' ("a sheep leg").
Surhuri is celebrated in winter and approximately coincides with Russian Christmas (January 7). Ulhash Chuvash pagans celebrate Surhuri on January 6. According to V.K. Magnitskiy, Chuvash people used to celebrate it at the end of December, on the third Friday after Saint Nicholas Day (December 6). South Chuvash people still differentiate between Russian Christmas and Surhuri. Like North Chuvash, Cheremis people celebrate it on Friday before or after Russian Christmas.
Surhuri is celebrated according to the ancient customs with sacrifices and prayers corresponding to them, and the holiday consists of continuous festivities, pranks and jokes. According to V.K. Magnitskiy's description, boys and girls used to enter houses and gather groats and bins, saying the words:
:Me-e-e, let sheep have lambs, :Let girls remain virgins, :Let women give birth to babies.
== Literature ==
* Skvortsov M. I., "Культура чувашского края" (The culture of Chuvash people), Cheboksary, 1995, {{ISBN|5-7670-0697-0}}.
==External links== * [http://www.chuvashculture.org/?q=ru/node/77 Сурхури на Чувашском культурном портале] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425121537/http://www.chuvashculture.org/?q=ru%2Fnode%2F77 |date=2012-04-25 }} * [http://www.gov.cap.ru/HOME/71/knigi/tradizii2/curxuri.htm ТРАДИЦИИ , ОБРЯДЫ , ПРАЗДНИКИ] * [http://rodionova.21417s02.edusite.ru/p2aa1.html НОВОГОДНИЙ ПРАЗДНИК СУРХУРИ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309065410/http://rodionova.21417s02.edusite.ru/p2aa1.html |date=2012-03-09 }} * [http://nasledie.nbchr.ru/nasledie/obychai/obrjady/scenarii/surkhuri/ Сценарии праздников -Сурхури] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404231740/http://nasledie.nbchr.ru/nasledie/obychai/obrjady/scenarii/surkhuri/ |date=2012-04-04 }} * [http://chuvash.org/news/tags/Сурхури/1 Хыпарсем: Сурхури] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfDERm701E Сурхури - YouTube] * [http://chuvash.forum2x2.ru/t36-topic Сурхури, сурхури...] * [http://www.nashgorod.ru/news/news29458.html Тюменские чуваши отпразднуют сурхури] * [http://yumah.ru/e/d0a1d183d180d185d183d180d0b820d18ed180d180d0b8d181d0b5d0bc Сурхури юррисем - Чӑваш юррисем, юмахӗсем, халапӗсем] * [http://gov.cap.ru/hierarhy.asp?page=./5026/5450/423366/538997/539035/539041/540755 Новогодний праздник сурхури] * [http://oktjabr.pressarb.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1881:2009-12-31-10-56-56&catid=6:2008-11-18-12-19-07 Сурхури–праздник надежды на будущее]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [http://sovch.chuvashia.com/?p=35831 Весело отметили «Сурхури» | Советская Чувашия] * [http://nesterjankas.ucoz.ru/news/surkhuri_saripe_sajlanma_pukhanchec/2011-01-16-257 Сурхури сӑрипе сӑйланма пухӑнчӗҫ] * [http://www.samddn.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3232:samara-vstretila-chuvashskij-novogodnij-prazdnik-surhuri Самара встретила чувашский новогодний праздник «Сурхури»] * [http://www.riasamara.ru/rus/news/region/municipal_news/article64675.shtml Самара встретила чувашский новогодний праздник «Сурхури»] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425121526/http://urmary.ru/index.php?newsid=2973 Фольклорный праздник "Сурхури" в Чубаевском сельском доме культуры]
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Category:Observances in Russia Category:Chuvashia Category:Turkic mythology Category:Religion in Chuvashia Category:Winter in Russia