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MOJGAN SHARIATMADAR stands besides a traditional: tranian
New Year presentation which includes Haftseen, or the seven
“*g,”" Iranian New Year began iast Saturday and celebrations con-

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Iranian community
celebrates Nowruz

IRANIAN NEW year began
on Saturday, March 20, ai
exactly 6:40:50 a.m.

By Saadat Haghighi and
Anna Marie D’Angelo

The new year, according to the
Iranian calendar, is 1372.

A few weeks before new year,
Iraniait family members buy gifts
for each other. About eight or 10
days before new year, each family
plants wheat or lentil. By Nowruz
-(new year), the wheat is 10 to 15
em high and appears like grass.

Before. new year, Iranians
spread a tablecloth on a table or
the floor of their living rooms.
They put the Koran, a mirror, and
a candle on the tablecloth.

They also put seven special
things whose names start with an
**s" on the tablecloth. The seven
things are called, Haftseen, which
means the seven ‘‘s.”’

The seven things each have a
speviai meaning and include the

_ following:

@ Seer (garlic): it symbolizes driv-"

ing away the enemy;
© Serkeh (vinegar):
ing;

@ Samanoo (juice of germinating
wheat or malt mixed with flour):
abundance;

@ Seeb (apple): health;
@ Senjed (oleaster):
and plantation;

@ Sabzeh (grass): happiness and
freshness;

@ Sekkeh (coin): safeguarding in-
come.

Sumac and sonbol (hyacinth)
can be subsituted in the seven
items.

In addition, cooked and painted
eggs are added to the tablecioth
Presentation to symbolize grace.

One or two small jarred red fish
and.a lot of sweets, candies and
dried nuts are also added to the
presentation.

A short time before new year,
alt the family members sit around
Haftseen.

life seascn-

fertilization

&& The seven things
are called Haftseen,
which means the

seven s. 79

They light the candle and usual-
ly the ofdest person in the family
reads a special part of the Koran
read before new year.

The time new year begins is dif-
ferent each year. At new year,
celebrants kiss each other, ex-
changes gifts and wish happy new
year to friends. The sweets, nuts
and candies are eaten.

The tablecloth including the
seven s is left from three days to
one week on the table or on the
floor.

On the first day of Nowruz, a
special vegetable rice dish is cook-
‘ed with fish for lunch or dinner.

Afterwards, Iranians visit their
friends and family. Visiting usual-
ly goes on from one week to 13
days.

Thirteen is considered an
unlucky number so on the 13th
day after new year, Iranian fami-
lies do not stay at home.

Also, on the 13th day of the
new year festival, Iranian families
put some sweets-or candies in the
wheat they sowed previously.
They take the wheat outside their
homes, usually to a farmer’s field
with a creek, and throw the wheat
into flowing water. It is believed,
or wished, that all unluckiness
goes away with the water.

Sometimes on the 13th day,
Iranian families have a picnic and
also celebrate the new vear. This

‘ event is called seezdehbedar.

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