Sizda Bedar

Another popular festival in Iran is the Sizda Bedar, which is celebrated on the 13th of Farvardin, the first month of the solar year.

It coincides with the 2nd of the western calendar. It is a holy day and full of good auspices. Thirteen is a magical number in Persian tradition. In Sizda Bedar the Iranians go out of their houses to celebrate life and spring and be in contact with nature.

The Sabzé, one of the elements of the Haft-sin, the traditional table that usually sprouts with some seed or legume, is thrown into the water.

Thus the water takes away all that is bad and allows for the renewal and rebirth that the new season brings.