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| Iran stories: how are you celebrating Nowruz? Share your photos | Iran stories: how are you celebrating Nowruz? Share your photos |
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| Iranians celebrate their new year in March, marking the | Iranians celebrate their new year in March, marking the |
| exact arrival of spring’s vernal equinox. The festival of Nowruz, meaning new day, is a secular festival that’s also celebrated in Iran’s | exact arrival of spring’s vernal equinox. The festival of Nowruz, meaning new day, is a secular festival that’s also celebrated in Iran’s |
| neighbouring countries: Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. This year, March 21 will be the beginning of 1393, in the Persian Calendar. | neighbouring countries: Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. This year, March 21 will be the beginning of 1393, in the Persian Calendar. |
| The time and date of Nowruz varies every year but the same traditions are always observed – beginning with fire jumping on the last Tuesday of the old year and ending with a national picnic on the 13th day of the new year. The festival centres around the Haft Sin arrangement, where seven items, all beginning with the sound of ‘S’ in Persian, are placed on a table or the floor to symbolise health, prosperity and renewed life. | |
| For the Tehran Bureau’s second project with the Iranian photography website, AKSbazi, we’d like to find out how you celebrate Nowruz. Will you you be with family at home or traveling to new places? What does your Haft Sin look like? Will you make a special fish dinner? | For the Tehran Bureau’s second project with the Iranian photography website, AKSbazi, we’d like to find out how you celebrate Nowruz. Will you you be with family at home or traveling to new places? What does your Haft Sin look like? Will you make a special fish dinner? |
| Share your photos of your Nowruz celebration – past or present – and we will make a gallery of the best. And Happy Nowruz! | Share your photos of your Nowruz celebration – past or present – and we will make a gallery of the best. And Happy Nowruz! |
| It’s important to take care when recording and sharing your | It’s important to take care when recording and sharing your |
| content, as these images will be public on the GuardianWitness site. We | content, as these images will be public on the GuardianWitness site. We |
| understand that there maybe cultural considerations in sharing | understand that there maybe cultural considerations in sharing |
| photographs and videos of your private spaces, so please ensure that the | photographs and videos of your private spaces, so please ensure that the |
| content you upload isn’t considered offensive to anyone in your | content you upload isn’t considered offensive to anyone in your |
| community. | community. |