photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
masud | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> San Rafael 13 bedar 1394, April 2015 tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

San Rafael 13 bedar 1394, April 2015

13 Bedar (read: Sizdah Bedar) It's the holiday celebrating the end of Nowrooz (Persian new year) on which everybody goes out to a park and spends a great day outdoors in the nature. It can be translated as "getting rid of thirteen" which traditionally is considered a number bringing the bad luck.
A ritual performed at the end of the picnic day is to throw away the Sabzeh( grass grown at home prior to 13 bedar) from the Norooz Haft Seen table. The sabzeh is supposed to have collected all the sickness, pain and ill fate hiding on the path of the family throughout the coming year! Touching someone else's sabzeh on this thirteenth day or bringing it home is, therefore, not a good idea and may result in inviting their pain and hardship to oneself.
DSC_4641.JPG DSC_4643.JPG DSC_4637.JPG DSC_4623.JPG
DSC_4624.JPG DSC_4627.JPG DSC_4638.JPG DSC_4639.JPG
DSC_4700.JPG DSC_4706.JPG DSC_4698.JPG DSC_4697.JPG
DSC_4626.JPG DSC_4628.JPG DSC_4630.JPG DSC_4633.JPG
DSC_4634.JPG DSC_4636.JPG DSC_4644.JPG DSC_4646.JPG
DSC_4782.JPG DSC_4647.JPG DSC_4648.JPG DSC_4649.JPG
DSC_4650.JPG DSC_4651.JPG DSC_4798.JPG DSC_4778.JPG
DSC_4652.JPG DSC_4653.JPG DSC_4784.JPG DSC_4786.JPG
DSC_4790.JPG DSC_4789.JPG DSC_4657.JPG DSC_4658.JPG
DSC_4659.JPG DSC_4665.JPG DSC_4666.JPG DSC_4668.JPG
DSC_4669.JPG DSC_4670.JPG DSC_4672.JPG DSC_4673.JPG
DSC_4676.JPG DSC_4680.JPG DSC_4682.JPG DSC_4683 1.JPG
DSC_4684 1.JPG DSC_4685.JPG DSC_4686.JPG DSC_4688.JPG
DSC_4695.JPG DSC_4699.JPG DSC_4704.JPG DSC_4705.JPG
DSC_4708.JPG DSC_4710.JPG DSC_4713.JPG DSC_4714 1.JPG
DSC_4723.JPG DSC_4739.JPG DSC_4728.JPG DSC_4674.JPG
DSC_4730.JPG DSC_4732.JPG DSC_4733.JPG DSC_4741.JPG
DSC_4745.JPG DSC_4747.JPG DSC_4753.JPG DSC_4754.JPG
DSC_4756.JPG DSC_4758.JPG DSC_4759.JPG DSC_4765.JPG
DSC_4769.JPG DSC_4771.JPG DSC_4773.JPG DSC_4774.JPG
DSC_4760.JPG DSC_4780.JPG DSC_4781.JPG DSC_4795.JPG
DSC_4776.JPG DSC_4785.JPG DSC_4775.JPG DSC_4716.JPG