Every year at this time, I have very unique feelings because the Iranian New Year is coming. We, the Iranians, prepare ourselves for the New Year by celebrating Chaharshanbe-Suri.Last Tuesday of the year, people get together in order to celebrate Chaharshanbe-suri. Chaharshanbe means Wednesday and Suri means red. In fact, They gather to celebrate one of the significant elements of the nature, "Fire". Moreover, people do not want the sun set so the festival begin from the evening until midnight or even morning.Chaharshanbe-suri is an ancient festival in Iran and dates back to 1700 BCE of the early Zoroasterian era. This celebration marks the arrival of the spring and the revival of the nature.In this day, people make bonfires on the street and jump over them. While jumping, they sing a traditional song: Your fiery red color is mine and my sickly yellow paleness is yours. In the other words, they want the fire take all the sickness, paleness and delimmas and instead give them redness, warmth and energy. After that, people and specially children cover their body in order to be unknown and go door-to-door to ask nuts, candies, chocolates and etc. Poeple most eat mixed nuts and berries and dance.I, as usual, am looking forward to the coming of this day. I am thinking how Chaharshanbe-suri can be held exceptionally and what I can do. All the childhood memories come to me in this day and make me a very special person, full of energy and dreams for the New Year- which comes with the spring. I deeply wish for the world that all the sicknesses, delimmas and paleness disappear and we all live in peace and bliss.
Happy New Year,Dear Nafis and thanks for sharing your culture with us! I'm from Christian country but I'm familiar with Iranian traditions.If I'm not mistaken you are celebrating the New Year on the 21st of March and it's because of the Nigth and the Day become an equal.Since my childhood the New Year is the best holiday for me.It's the special time when your family can stick together and everybody hope for the happy future.It's really amazing Holiday!
Hi Nafis,
You are so nice to share your traditional culture with us. In Viet Nam, we also have a festival like this. It is called Lunar New Year. We are off fours day. We will have a New Year's Eve party at the first second of New Year. All members in our family will seat and eat water melon, crack dried melon seeds,....drink tea. At the first day New Year, we will come to Pagoda, church, .....to pray the best things for the new year.
I wish I could join in your New year festival oneday.
This sounds like a combination of our American traditions of New Years and Halloween. On New Year's we wish good things and good health to people for the next year. On Halloween we have candy, bonfires nad costumes.
Thanks for sharing. It makes our world smaller when we share our customs.
Hi Nafis,
It is very nice to let us know some of your culture. But, here I want to know whether the festivities are limited to using bonfires only as mentioned in your blog post or as illustrated in the fhoto; you can celebrate this festival with artificial fire as well?
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You are so nice to share your traditional culture with us. In Viet Nam, we also have a festival like this. It is called Lunar New Year. We are off fours day. We will have a New Year's Eve party at the first second of New Year. All members in our family will seat and eat water melon, crack dried melon seeds,....drink tea. At the first day New Year, we will come to Pagoda, church, .....to pray the best things for the new year.
I wish I could join in your New year festival oneday.
Thanks for sharing, this is really nice.
Thanks for sharing. It makes our world smaller when we share our customs.
It is very nice to let us know some of your culture. But, here I want to know whether the festivities are limited to using bonfires only as mentioned in your blog post or as illustrated in the fhoto; you can celebrate this festival with artificial fire as well?