Old Sabzeh!

Posted by Soodabeh (Yazd, Iran) on 26 May 2007 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

This is a disposed Sabzeh a month after Sizdah Bedar!

Sizdah-bedar (Persian سیزده بدر) is the Persian Festival of springs. It is a full day of mass Outdoors Picnic, which occurs on the 13th day of Norouz (Persian Year), about April 4.

Iranians have a tradition of spending the day outdoors on the 13th day of month Farvardin. Sizdah- means thirteen, and -bedar, meaning to get rid of, i.e "getting rid of thirteen". From the ancient times, Iranian peoples have enjoyed this day, although it is also the day that marks the end of the Norouz celebrations.

The first 12 days of the year are very important, because they symbolise order in the world and in the lives of people. The 13th day marks the beginning of the return to ordinary daily life.

At the end of this day they put away their Sabzeh in a water stram or a garden they were.

sabzeh is wheat, barley or lentil sprouts growing in a dish - symbolizing rebirth

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