Jashne
Sadeh is a mid winter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and
magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor fire and to
defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold. Jashne Sadeh in Persian
language means "Hundred" and marks exactly hundred days and
nights (fifty nights and fifty days) before the next major ancient
Iranian celebration "Norooz" at the beginning of spring.
Jashne Sadeh has no religious significance and no specific rituals are
involved other than lighting fires at sunset and having a cheerful time.
Traditional celebration of Jashne Sadeh involves getting together with
family and friends, bringing firewood or dry tree branches and lighting
a big bonfire outdoors at sunset. Then singing and dancing around the
fire with lavish feasts of roasted lamb, beef, chicken and other
delicacies to signify the coming of spring and as a symbolic token of
the eternal fight with mischief. Jashne Sadeh is celebration of life,
happiness, family values, friendship, love and kindness. The festivities
would normally go on for three days. Fire in Jashne Sadeh represents the
"eternal fire" and symbolizes the love of homeland which is
always alive like a fervent fire in the true Iranian's hearts.
Happy
Jashne Sadeh to all true Iranians around the world
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