Happy Nowruz!

We wish a pros­per­ous and happy New Year and Nowruz to all our Iran­ian com­pa­tri­ots.
Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the begin­ning of the year in Iran­ian cal­en­dar. It is cel­e­brated on the day of the astro­nom­i­cal ver­nal equinox, which usu­ally occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depend­ing on where it is observed.

The UN’s Gen­eral Assem­bly in 2010 rec­og­nized the Inter­na­tional Day of Nowruz, describ­ing it a spring fes­ti­val of Per­sian ori­gin which has been cel­e­brated for over 3,000 years.

Haft Sīn (هفت سین) or the seven ‘S’s is a major tra­di­tion of Nowruz. The haft sin table includes seven spe­cific items start­ing with the let­ter ‘S’ or Sīn (س) in the Per­sian alpha­bet. The items sym­bol­i­cally cor­re­spond to seven cre­ations and holy immor­tals pro­tect­ing them. The Haft Sin has evolved over time, but has kept its sym­bol­ism. Tra­di­tion­ally, fam­i­lies attempt to set as beau­ti­ful a Haft Sīn table as they can, as it is not only of tra­di­tional and spir­i­tual value, but also noticed by vis­i­tors dur­ing Nowruzi vis­i­ta­tions and is a reflec­tion of their good taste.

The Haft Sīn items are:

• sabzeh — wheat, bar­ley or lentil sprouts grow­ing in a dish — sym­bol­iz­ing rebirth
• samanu — a sweet pud­ding made from wheat germ — sym­bol­iz­ing affluence
• sen­jed — the dried fruit of the oleaster tree — sym­bol­iz­ing love
• sīr — gar­lic — sym­bol­iz­ing medicine
• sīb — apples — sym­bol­iz­ing beauty and health
• somaq — sumac berries — sym­bol­iz­ing (the color of) sunrise
• serkeh — vine­gar — sym­bol­iz­ing age and patience

Other items on the table may include:

• Son­bol — Hyacinth (plant)
• Sekkeh — Coins — rep­re­sen­ta­tive of wealth
• tra­di­tional Iran­ian pas­tries such as baghlava, toot, naan-nokhodchi
• Aajeel — dried nuts, berries and raisins
• lit can­dles (enlight­en­ment and happiness)
• a mir­ror (sym­bol­iz­ing clean­ness and honesty)
• dec­o­rated eggs, some­times one for each mem­ber of the fam­ily (fertility)
• a bowl of water with gold­fish (life within life, and the sign of Pisces which the sun is leaving)
• rose­wa­ter, believed to have mag­i­cal cleans­ing powers
• the national colours, for a patri­otic touch
• a holy book (e.g., the Avesta, Qur’an, Bible, Torah, or Kitáb-i-Aqdas) and/or a poetry book (almost always either the Shah­nama or the Divan of Hafez)

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