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Issue 7
22 Mar 2004
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Iranian New Year
New Year Traditions
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Iranians celebrate the New Year on
the first day of their spring. The festivals
known as Noruz or Nowruz and falls on the
21 March according to the Gregorian
calendar. The first month is known as
Favardin and Noruz falls on this day.
They know when the New Year is
upon them as in each town and village a
cannon is sounded at the precise moment
until it is heard they don't start their
celebrations. They prepare for several weeks
before hand. In preparing they have to grow
grains of wheat, barley or lentils to use as
decorations for their houses. This decoration
is a symbol for growth and prosperity and
must be kept in the house for thirteen day
after which it is thrown into the river. They
clean their houses during the days leading up
to the New Year and they either make or buy
new clothes for themselves and their family.
If they cannot afford to much they try to have
at least one piece of new clothing often a pair
of shoes.
A special table is set up with seven
articles which all must begin with the letter
"s" for Haft-sin. They are:
sonbul - hyacinth
sabzeh - green shoots grown from grain
samanoo - a sweet pudding made of green
wheat
serkeh - vinegar
sumac - a herb
seeb - an apple
senjed - bohemian olives.
Other objects are a bowl of colored
eggs, candles, a mirror and a bowl of rose
water. They also must have a copy of their
holy book the Koran, on the New Year table.
After the cannon has sounded
people visit their relatives to wish them a
happy New Year. The elders give the
younger ones a silver or gold coin this is
known as aidi. Everyone then gathers around
the New Year table for a special feast, which
includes traditional dishes such as Baklava,
Nune Shekari which is a sugar biscuits and
Badam Choragi which is almond biscuits.
In Persia, now Iran, people used to exchange
eggs as gifts on New Year's Day, to suggest
the idea of new life beginning.
A few weeks before the Iran New
Year, people put grains of wheat or barley in
a little dish to grow. By the time New Year
arrives the grains have produced shoots.
This is done to remind people of spring and a
new year of life. Some people in Iran light
fires at New Year and jump over them. This
is done in hope that they receive good luck.
Iranian New Year 1383 begins on Saturday
Farvardin 1st,
10:19:37 AM Tehran Time (March 19/20,
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