Sizdah bedar
Sizdah bedar is a traditional festival Iranian celebrated thirteen days after Norouz, the Iranian new year.
The thirteenth day of the festivals of the new year is Sizdah Bedar (literally meaning " thirteenth dehors"), which is one day festive celebrated with the free air, often accompanied by music and dance. This day passed spade-to screw in family.
The celebrations of the thirteenth day, Sizdah Bedar , come from the belief of old Persians that the 12 constellations of the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and that each one reigned on the ground for a thousand of year. At the end of this cycle, the sky and the ground sank in chaos. Consequently, Norouz, lasts 12 days and the thirteenth one represents chaos, moment during which the families put the order on side and avoid the bad luck associated with the number thirteen while going outside and while benefitting from a picnic and a festival.
At the end of the celebrations of this day, the sabzeh cultivated for the Haft Seen (which symbolically collected all the disease and the bad luck) is thrown in running water to exorcize the demons ( Div S ) of the household. It is also of habit for the unmarried young women to attach the stems of the sabzeh before throwing them, thus expressing the wish to be married before the Seezdah Bedar of the following year.
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