 Brilliant, embellished and funny mirror of history.
Festivals are life profiles where every kind of people
come together without
social, cultural, economical discrimination, and its existence found acceptance.
Festivals of Ottoman period can be accepted as a social instrument in which
the sultan was integrated with his people, entertain and relax all together.
Each of them are public relations of the contemporary life. Furthermore,
the function gains a different meaning by the foreign state guests.
These
festivals which were arranged out of the palace by central otority, are indulgent,
social peace entertainments where the different castes of society |
come
together, socialize, feeling togetherness, the public and the
otorities encounter.
Festivals with the parades, fireworks, plays, entertainments,
banquets, acrobats, shows, clothes, decorations, poems, music,
light, players are embellished, brilliant and funny mirrors of our history.
Surnames are verse and illustrated creations of this entertainment
system. They have a documental quality in subjects like history,
custom and usage, social life, associations, shows. For example,
in surnames it is possible to meet rich materials in point of philology
like names of food, sugar candies, dried fruit, kitchen equipment,
fabric types and business branches. |
The
first biggest hand written kerchief which the miniatures were made
by miniaturist Osman, is the Surname of III. Murat which was better
known as Surname-i Hümayun. In this creation which was written
by Seyyid Lokman in 1582 and pictured by miniaturist Osman had
been described the parades, entertainments and festivals of circumcision
feast of Şehzade Mehmet. "Smaller festivals which were arranged
for the foreign delegates arranged by III Murat who liked shows.
A German wanderer who had been to İstanbul in XVI century, told
that when the Iranian delegate had come, there had been a festival
which took eight days and nights." |
