Sizdah needed
Sizdah bedar or Sizdahbedar ( Persian سیزدهبدر) is a custom in the Persian tradition in which one leaves one's house to celebrate in public, since according to popular belief there are evil spirits in the house at that time. This happens on the thirteenth ( sizdah ) day of the month of Farwardin (corresponds to April 1 or 2), the last day of the Nouruz (Persian New Year) celebrations, the last phase of the New Year celebration, which begins with the Chāhār Shanbeh Surī fire festival .
Today people go to parks to picnic and to throw their sabzi - the green plants whose seeds they planted before the start of the norouz - into a river, which is supposed to symbolize the circle of life. Marriage- capable young women knot at Sizdah sometimes need blades of grass and want a husband. Goldfish are also commonly released in rivers.
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- ↑ Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi: The morning of drunkenness. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 414