Yalda Nighttime Celebration - 2017

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سعدی

شب یلدا Shab-e yalda or شب چله shab-e chelleh (winter solstice) is here. The Iranian celebration of yalda (December 20-21) starts on the eventide of the concluding sunset of the concluding twenty-four hr menstruum of autumn. The yalda festivities popular off along into the nighttime together with it officially ends at the sight of the root sunrise of the root twenty-four hr menstruum of winter. Shab-e yalda is the longest nighttime of the yr together with it is followed yesteryear the shortest twenty-four hr menstruum of the year. Then the days start out to popular off longer which marks the victory of lite over darkness together with the nascence of Mithra (the Dominicus God) according to ancient Farsi tradition dating dorsum thousands of years. Today, Yalda celebration centers to a greater extent than or less identify unit of measurement gatherings, Hafez khani (reading the poesy yesteryear Hafez of Shiraz), storytelling, music, together with eating fruits, nuts together with sweets.

Growing up, celebrating shab-e yalda wasn't most preparing an elaborate meal. My woman raise ever had the yalda spread on our dining room tabular array together with on it was wintertime watermelon, pomegranate, پسته pesteh (pistachios),  بادام badam (almonds), برگه زردآلو bargeh zard-aloo (dried apricot), انجیر anjir (figs), together with تخمه tokhmeh (seeds). Another Yalda tradition is reading Hafez which was a daily ritual inward our home. This was my mother's agency of passing on tradition together with pedagogy us the importance of our culture.

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Happy Shab-e Yalda!

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