Nowruz Mobarak!

Nowruz Mobarak to all our DPS Persian Families who are celebrating New Year over the next 2 weeks! May you and your families be blessed with happiness, health and prosperity in the New Year!

Celebrating Nowruz in the Art room: 

Prep created Iranian Rugs.

Grade Three and Four made Persian Teapots.

Grade Five made Persian Lamps

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What is Nowruz?  Nowruz, also known as Persian New Year, has been observed for more than 3,000 years as the victory of spring over darkness. Nowruz means 'new day' in Persian and is the most important festival of the year in Iran.

It is celebrated by families first cleaning their house top to bottom, then people prepare a special table in their homes, where they place small dishes holding seven symbolic foods and spices. The names of these foods all start with the letter 's' in Persian and so the table is called the 'seven s's' (haft-seen).

On the last Tuesday, people observe the Festival of Fire (Chaharshanbe Suri), which involves jumping over these fires, which is believed to bring health and good luck in the new year.

Iranians spend the night of Nowruz with their family. The traditional new year dinner is white fish with rice and herbs. Many families give a money gift (called eidi) to the children to mark the new year. People often visit each other's homes and always bring traditional gifts.