Noruz, Persian New Year

Noruz, Persian New Year

Noruz is near, that s why the idea of writing about Noruz came to strikes me. I always thought about writing a notebook on italki but i didn't know what to write about, now that I am doing spring cleaning I asked myself, why dont I write about Noruz!? 

The word, Noruz, means new day. We celebrate our new year ceremony at the beginning of spring on Persian calender, the time that, nature makes itself alive again.

We put seven plates containing seven things which start with S(in their Persian words) such as: sumac, garlic, apple, brunet grass, vinegar, Samanou(a kind of dish prepared from the juice of wheat) and sea buckthorn, we call them Haftsin. We also put the book of Hafez poems or Quran(or any kind of holy books), a mirror, hyacinth flower and some sweets.

When it is At the time of new year, families sit on the chairs around Haftsin, after kissing and hugging and saying they congratulatesion to each other, normally older people give some money as a praise blessing to younger people.

Noruz is an old ceremony that were is being celebrateding from thousand years ago in Persia until now. It is has shown on stones in historical buildings and it is celebrating among in other nations where persian are living. that used to belong to Iran.

Picture below is how Haftsin looks like. :-)