Abstract:

Receiving congratulations in Antioch is a tradition that goes back 60-70 years back in the region. In the region, congratulations of engagement, wedding, circumcision, recruitment and pilgrimage are received. Our aim is outlining the structure of this tradition in the region. In addition to the printed resources, mainly oral sources were applied in the process of realization of this study. Congratulations of engagement, circumcision, wedding have been emphasized in the mentioned study, and the ways of receiving congratulations in the region before this tradition, the traditions applied during receiving congratulations, the differences of this tradition from applications of receiving congratulations in other regions have been revealed and an evaluation has been made. As a result, it has been revealed that the ways of receiving congratulations in the region and other regions are different in view of these facts: receiving congratulations is limited to a few days in the region; engaged girl, bride or the boy to be circumcised wear their ceremonial clothes again even after the ceremony in order to keep the ceremony alive, and duties and helping styles that the relatives and the neighbors undertake are different

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