“Makhonik village” is one of the seven wonderful villages of the world and is known as the city of “Lillipots“.
According to the report of the electronic publication of jahane-gardesh, Mohammad Mazdoor said about the people of the village: In the past, the people of the village were short and vegetarian. They used plants such as lettuce, turnips, beets, and plant roots until one year after the revolution, the village had no road. People were not connected with anywhere and all the necessities such as clothes and food were provided from the nature of the village itself.
People were short due to vegetarianism and improper nutrition. With the improvement of nutrition and marriage with other clans, the height of the villagers has increased over time.
It is thirty minutes from the village of Makhonik to the Afghanistan border and they are Sunnis. They speak Persian language with a special accent. The houses are next to each other and the floors of the houses are about one meter below the ground level and have a small wooden door. The whole house or room is ten to twelve meters. You have to bend your head to go inside the house. Next to the houses is a room called Bene Don (storage). The guesthouse room is outside the house. In the old days, houses were built facing the mosque. Another historical monument of the village is Zinda Be Gour Cemetery!
People who had smallpox or measles, etc. They were going to the cemetery alive on their own feet. The nursing of these patients was done by a person who himself had contracted this disease before and survived. If he recovered, he would return home, and if he did not recover, he would be buried there.
The guide Mr. Mazdoor says about the age of the village: “Five hundred meters away from the current village, monuments such as the tomb of Gebarha have been found, which shows that the age of Makhoniki dates back to the pre-Islamic period. The new Makhonik is 400 years old. The Makhoniks do not consider themselves to be Afghan ethnic groups. Mr. Mazdoor says: A person named Ahmad Mir Baloch chooses Makhonik between Makhonik and Sarbisheh and settles there, and they give him the nickname “Ahmed Kandak”. The people of Makhonik, themselves They are considered to be from his generation. They are from Ali Abul clan and Muhammad Gholam Khodabakhsh clan. He says about customs and traditions: The bride’s dowry here is a house, two goats and a goat, and they never kill goats, and their products are used in It is customary for the groom’s father to give his son one meter of land. In the same one meter of land, he plants barley or turnips, etc. Some even have twenty centimeters of land that they cultivate in the same twenty centimeters. If the border If there is a stone between the fields and a crop grows next to that rock, that little crop will be halved!
The Makhoniks did not drink tea until twenty years ago. If someone was drinking tea, they would say; So and so is practical!
In the old days, toilets were open, which was called “gashi”. Because there was no door or body, they put their hats on the wall. To make it clear that someone is in the service. They were very dependent on the baneh tree. They used to make shoe soles (similar to Baloch sandal) and the strap was made of goat hair. Houses and roofs were made from sticks and leaves of Baneh or other trees. One of the advantages of baneh wood is that it does not attack termites. He makes a local food called Gandrak from wild pistachios.
The museum, Nagare stones (paintings of shepherds and sheep), springs and three watchtowers are among the sights of the village.
In Makhonik, there is a residence called Al-Mahdi. The guest is considered a blessing and mercy. Contentment is one of the most obvious characteristics of Makhonik people.
Imagine the village of Makhonik, if I were the wife of a Makhonik man…
I leave the village behind towards Birjand!
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