Pre-Persian New Year!!

Tomorrow is Persian New Year or Norouz (it means new day), ( maybe Turkish guys in the class know about Norouz). I love Persian New Year because it says spring is coming. It is symbol of birds’ sounds, the smell of colorful flowers and sunny weather and no more snow. In each year the Persian new year is on March 20th , but each year it has different times. For example, tomorrow Persian New Year will be at 1:48 am. Any way, each year we celebrate it and we a tradition that set a table for the New Year. We put seven things on the table or whenever you want, and each thing has different meaning. Also, each thing has to start with S sound and that why we call “Haft Sin” (Seven S) this table. For example, we put some coins ( Seke in Farsi), apple ( Sib in Farsi), a kind of planet ( Sabze in Farsi ), a name of flower ( Sonbol ), a kind of Persian pastry (Samanoo), Vinegar ( Serke ), garlic ( Sir ) and put some others thing that each one has different meanings, but they don’t start with S in Farsi, such as a scriptures, mirror, painted eggs, candles, and also we put the bowl of gold fish. Each one of these is symbols of good things and we put them together that we will have a good year. Today my mom and I went to store and bought some of them, so I’ll take a picture later and show you the Haft Sin!!