The Persian New Year begins the minute and second that Spring begins so this year it will be at 10:32 a.m., Saturday.
The celebration began tonight so Roger and I attended a party and dinner to celebrate the beginning of the festivities. The tradition is to light small fires that everyone jumps over to symbolize the end of winter and the hope for a new year of happiness and success. The little girl is wearing a traditional Iranian costume. She was too small to jump the fire so her mom and dad took her arms and swung her over the fire. She was so excited, they had to wait in line to do it a second time.
The Persian festival is called Nowruz and it continues for thirteen days.
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