Coverage of Lorestan women is the symbol of identity and culture of this region base on the social and economic status and from the other part, traditional conditions have specified characteristics.

Clothes and Sarbands of Lor women are contained colorful clothes with happy designs. Old women prefer clothes with dark colours, simple design, and Sarbands with white or black colour.

Scarfs of Lor women gave beautiful shapes to their heads. These scarfs that they usually have silky stuff are applied in different colours and designs. Lor women knot their scarfs around their heads and corners of them are placed in beautiful shapes in dangling form.

Clothes of Lor women have beautiful cuts and they are long and loose. Designs of their clothes are contained flowers and they are all colorful.

Their pants are having two parts and two colours from combination and kinds of clothes.

Usually, from their feet to their knee of them are containing simple clothes with beautiful designs and ribbons and the upper parts of them are having clothes with flowers in the other colour.

On the other parts of women, clothes are one special kind of coat with the name of “Calanjeh” that they don’t contain any button to fasten and it is located on all of the clothes of them. The other parts of this coat as same as the corner of that has ribbon and beautiful kind of sewing for itself.

The other parts of their clothes are long until the back of their feet and they contain no button with sleeves until their elbow. The clothes of them are velvet in black, green and red colour.

Around their sleeves and skirts are contain ribbon in the size of 3 fingers.

Its coat only cover the upper parts of their body don’t have any ribbon and it has only one button.

The vest is always open don’t have any button and it has ribbon in front it is sewing in the special design.

Dress of Lor women and their covers are colorful with the simple design, long and loose with flower designs and different colours.

Their clothes contain many parts such as follow:

Jeliqe (vest)

Kamar Chin

Sardary (kind of hat)

Kalanje (Velvet coat)

Kalanje (Velvet coat) is a kind of velvet coat that Lor women wear it on their dresses and corners of that are having the ribbon.

Sardary (kind of hat) is a kind of hat that the length of that is until the back of the leg and it has no button in front.

Jeliqe (Vest) is always open with no button and in front of that is contain beautiful design.

Shalvaar or in the Lor language shavaal (pants) is from colorful clothes and it is loose that they wear it under their dresses. Their pants have two colours with two different kinds of clothes from their feet are simple with ribbon and designs until the top of their knee and the upper part is in the other colour and has flowers.

Clothes of Lor men are simple and beautiful with few designs. These clothes are famous to “Shaal and Setare”.

Their pants are as same as Kurdish people pants and their dress are simple in white and sometimes colorful shapes.

Clothes of Lor men in the Local dialect have both names of “Hume” or “Cros”. These clothes have long sleeves and circle collar. They make from Karbas in white colour.

“Shawl” is a long cotton in the white colour in wide of 60-90 centimeters and lengths of 6-9 meters. This cotton is of the special material that it calls “Chelvaar” that is spinning several times around waist.

“Setareh” is a kind of  “Qaba” that the length of that is until under knee. This clothing is using especially in the official times. It is one of the oldest type of clothes in Iran and has many happy colours and flower designs either. People wear this clothing in happy ceremonies and another one with simple designs and simple colours are using in official and Mourn ceremonies.

Hat and shoes of Lor men are one of the special characters of them.

The felt hat is the kind of hat that is making from felt and the shoes of them with the name of “Give” has bottom from leather or plastic and up of it from threads.

Some of the other clothes of them are such as follow:

  • Kapanik
  • Farji
  • Jouqa

Kapanik is very tight that is made by wool and it is using by Shepherds and the people whom they want to go to war.

Golabgiry festival ( rose water festival) is from mid-May to mid-June. This event is taking place in different parts of Kashan such as Qamsar and Niasar annually which 1 million guests attending there. Its special charm and spectacular annual event, Rose water prepare in this interesting event from the red flowers that have been planted in these areas.

Golabgiry in Kashan is in thousand five hundred units that are produced fifteen thousand tons of heavy water.
It is strange that the most beautiful flowers and the sweetest pears of Four Seasons of Iran come out of the so dry desert. Kashan city is in 240 kilometers south of Tehran , in Isfahan Province,in the middle of Vulture Mountains in the central desert with the warm and dry weather.
Qamsar and Niasar from mid-May for two to three weeks are the host of Golabgyry guests who travel to these cities. The town is full of gardens, streams rose, which make the city pleasant for the travelers.
Rose that is grown in Kashan and its surroundings are known as Rosaceous. Golabgyry time is during the day in the hot weather, but air-cooled in dusk and at night. It is better if you want to patrol the areas choosing lightweight and comfortable shoes and do not throw trash on the ground, especially crockery.

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Planting Rose in Iran is dating back to about seven thousand years ago. Golabgyry is a ritual ceremony in 1000 years, which have very little changes over that time. Rose of Qamsar that the quality of the water is for the world in terms of religion
and also has the honor and esteem. In addition to being used for aromatic religious spaces, a house of God is washed by pure water each year on 9 Dhu al-Hijjah.
However, Qamsar knows as the cradle of the finest water in the world, but pure water is produced in the villages of Van, Sar,Sade, and Vadeqan that are lesser-known and they are for the tourists. These villages are located in the places that are more mountainous areas than Qamsar and Niasar, flowers flourish later and more concentrated rose water is prepared in them.
Finest rose is in the area of the village 50 km north of Van,Vadeqan and Kashan, in the border provinces of Qom, Isfahan, and Central, respectively.
The process of golabgyry in this way that big pot full of rose petals and water, put on the pyre and rose water obtained by distillation. Before the golabgyry ceremony boilers and flowers are along the river , and people sang religious prayer and performed the ceremony.
Approximately 2 million persons are visiting Golabgyran ceremonies in Kashan, Qamsar , and Nyasrv annually . Qamsar and Niasar are the main Golabgyry poles of Iran, geographically they are also interesting and located in a short distance from the mountains and desert and has more delicate and milder weather than Kashan.

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Golabgiri in Qamsar

Qamsar is located in about 30 km south of Kashan. The best time to attend Glabgyry is in early morning hours when there is still quite warm sun, the flowers are arranged in the hours before dawn fresh water is naturally better than they achieved.
In the city that is full of flower gardens, Glabgyry ceremonies are available for tourists to watch , people of Qamsar, are hospitable and warm, with patience and in a way to explain the procurement process of water and as if they repeat their explanations, that is more fun to Audience. Apart from seeing the ceremony Glabgyry and beautiful nature of Qamsar visit the shrine of Pir Dawud the building belonging to the al buoy is the conical dome and interesting color turquoise is not unpleasant.

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Golabgiri in Niasar

The famous ancient of Iran and the Garden City is located in 30 km west of Kashan, that is at the first sight nothing more than Qamsar to tourists. It is enough to be little away from the city and go to a nearby mountain to see a natural beauty, especially the famous Niasar waterfall.

Iranian ancient sport of polo that has become a global sport today is the field because of the spread between the king and the famous kings is great to play. Polo’s name was derived from the name of the wood which is used in this game. The game also display initially as a military and war and war horses and to show their talent of Equestrian Society of Iran in the basket.

Today’s polo games are originated from Iran and more than 77 countries, and special programs polo matches are held. Polo sports including that of the year 1900 (AD) by the year 1939 (AD) as a sport World Championship Olympic Games and the International Olympic Committee is now known as one of the sports world and has long in Iran itself dating back centuries and has been playing the sport in his native Iran, but not much public interest.

History of Chogan

This game was close to 600 BC in Iran and was playing at the time of the Achaemenids. When Darius territorial polo in India , the land was introduced and also during the Sassanid period was part of game culture.

Rudaki is the first poet of  Islam polo talks and Ferdowsi also mentions a lot of  it,

also Ferdowsi story polo Siavash and Afrasiab. Saadi , Hafiz , Nasir and Maulana pointed out to bat.

After the Mongol invasion of Iran and Iranian culture and art acquainted when they learned polo also have spread across its vast empire. It can be said that the East Asian countries to polo trend that’s why. The period referred to Iran as the most serious point of departure gates.

Polo flourished in the Safavid period.

Historical documents show that the capital of Iran had been playing polo when Abbas was open gates and even before the Isfahan to come in Qazvin.

Also Jahan Square in Isfahan was built for polo.At the time of the Safavids and their colonial times in India , Europeans were familiar with the game and the polo club, Calcutta Senior officers also learned English and took with him to England.

In the year 1860 (AD) is the most common bat in the UKand after that  the other country playing was in South America . It is extremely popular as polo is played in South America more than anywhere in the world and this game has many fans.

Since the Safavid this sport in Iran slowly fading away. During the Pahlavi , in connection with the Europeans, polo was again considered.

Rider and horse polo fighting drill was confirmed.

 When the barrier is a horse, but the horse polo to prevent escapes and puts themselves in a situation that riding, polo calls. Horse that easily adapts to the conditions polo field is also present on the battlefield.

Chogan (Polo) groun Charectristic

The length and width, respectively, 274 and 145 meters polo ground . The gate length is 7 meters.

The duration of the race

A polo match in the sixth period ,which is divided in to 7 minutes. Of course, this standard relating to the country Englandis in Argentina and America, but this time it is divided into eight parts and equivalent to 3 minutes rest between each Ch’ok’e between the two halves of  5 minutes is considered.

Number of  players

Each team will have four players, that the first one is a striker and his work is also to contribute the attack and defense. The second player is aggressive too, but he is defend the task that is more important. The third player whom usually is the best player on the team, has a duty to defensive movements on the counter attack. The fourth playr is also defense and the obligation to take the ball away from the goal.

The player must perform tasks to return to their place as polo is a game with a fast process and  it is possible for players in different parts of the Earth are a team that is related to the other player’s task.

The purpose and rules of the game

Being the ball in the net is the aim of this game. throwing the ball is awarded to team attacked unless the team makes it out to be, When the ball comes out of the gates. In this case the opposing team have a free throw from 84 meters out  as awarded. After each goal, kicking the ball in the center of the Earth and teams change their ground.  If  the two teams are equal, extra time granted to them and the winner is the first team to score. When a player towards the direction that the ball has been thrown at it Mytazd, with his priority if  the ball is on her right. no speed low is not allowed to block his path, in this case unless it is within a reasonable distance that there is no risk.

Errors Chogan(polo)

  1. Equestrian path that is cut along its path putt and with it, he lives at stake
  2. Hitting from the opposite direction (from the left).
  3. Horseback riding or kick in a way that is dangerous for other riders.

Types of penalties Chogan(polo)

  1. If you encounter dangerous or deliberate error near the gate a goal for the opposing team will include.
  2. Hitting a free kick goal from 27 meters in the opposite direction, and being defenders which only allowed to be tapped behind the goal line.
  3. From the same conditions hitting a free kick from 36 yards
  4. No defense to a distance of 27 m point is Qrardashth putt, hitting a free kick from 54 yards.
  5. Like football without legitimate offside hitting a free kick from the middle of the pitch.
  6. In this case no defense to a distance of 27 meters from the spot kick should have been if hitting a free kick from the wrong place.
  7. Corner not like a football:a free-kick 54 yards from goal on the condition that defenders are at a distance of 27 meters from the Provisional kick.

Judgment in Chogan(polo)

This race is played by both the referee and a referee. The referees have to be played in the little bag are on horseback that in case of agreement between the captains of both teams to the referee’s judgment can be granted, but if in case of disagreement between the two, the third arbitrator is to decide the final verdict.

Start playing

At the beginning of the match both teams layout of their own and lined up in midfield and the midfield.

The arbiter throws the ball to a distance of 6.4 meters between them and the game starts with the ball on behalf of one of the teams.

Stop playing

Stop only at the end of a polo match in normal conditions, but if one of the these events are occur the game will be stop:

1.If in the middle of the race one of the horses falling down

  1. Injured in a horse accident or unexpected for one of the horses

Record points

When the ball clearly crosses from the goal line referee to verify its authenticity a score is recorded for a team. The challenge will be occur if the ball does not hit the upper part of the goal scoring .

Chogan(polo) horses

In the sport of polo is usually short horses. In a maximum of two Ch’ok’e is usually of a horse, of course, have between them a break Ch’ok’e be given to horses.

Essential commodities polo horse during the race

  • Four leg bandaged to protect horse in order not to deal blows to the legs polo ball or stick.
  • Choose a leash in order to better control the horse during the race

Horsemen essential commodities

Some of the essential materials of Wicket are as follow:

  • Helmets for polo
  • Gloves
  • Polo whip that its value is approximately 106 cm, due to the ease of use during Msabqhast.
  • Riding boots without laces
  • Knee strap

    Size wood bat and ball

    Wood bats have a length of 129 cm, which is the end of the cylinder shape.

    This bat usually made from Bamboo or persimmon tree that they are light and strong .The diameter ball is about 25/8 cm around well and it is about 141-127 grams, sex balls of wood or bamboo is woven. In some of exercise games of course foam and plastic are used in the ball.

    World record Chogan

    Azerbaijan was able to play only local Karabakh as Azerbaijani wicket record Qarayf  Knd.  abvalfzl represent Azerbaijan at the sidelines of the meeting, said: polo a common Yazzie regional and cultural heritage and all countries, including Iran, the world’s common registered shares can be he shared heritage led to the nation’s unity and friendship and said that Azerbaijan does not want this game to be cause of different countries.