Celebration

The last Wednesday before the Persian New Year, Nowruz, is named Chaharshanbe Suri. It is also known as ‘The Festival of Fire.’

Chaharshanbe Suri is made up of two words, ‘Chaharshanbe’ which means Wednesday, which is the name of one of the days of the week, and ‘Suri’, which means red and celebration.

On this day people are dancing, singing and are happy. People, make a fire and jump over fire but Government doesn't like that. People do not listen to Government and police because Chaharshanbe Suri is a big Iranian tradition, and Iranian people never want to forget that.

According to the ancient tradition, a large fire is lit on Tuesday evening or Wednesday eve, which is kept lit until early the next morning till sunrise on Wednesday. People jump over it, and when they jump, they sing: "O! Chaharshanbe Suri! My yellow is for you, your red is for me." In other words, the people want the fire to take away all the paleness and jaundice, their diseases and problems, and instead give them its redness, warmth and strength. This sentence represents a ceremony for the purification and purification of religion, which is referred to by the word "Suri" meaning "red".

It is like ‘Halloween.’ As in Halloween’s ‘Trick or Treating,’ people go door to door wearing disguises, banging pots and pans with spoons and receive packaged goods as ‘treats’ or ‘favors.’ These favors are thought to be lucky.

Suri Wednesday is not a holiday and celebrations depend on the religion or ethnicity of the people but it is common among most Iranians. People celebrate the last Wednesday of the year, in Tajikistan, Kurdistan of Turkey, Iraq and Syria. And of course Iranian people do too!