Yalda (the longest night)

Tonight is the longest night in the year.it is the last night of Autumn and tomorrow winter will com.Iranians called it Yalda and try to celebrate it by having meeting and family party,eating different fruits -specially water melon and pomegranate -and nuts,reading Hafez poems.


We enjoy to be together with whom we love and ask God to bless us during the cold days of winter.water melon and pomegranate are the two fruit wich is special for the night ,since they are red and reminds fire and heat at the longest night.
Happy Yalda.
p.s you can see "Korsi" in the picture.A table with a tick cloth on it and a nice table cloth on.In the past Iranian put some semi burned wood-now heater-under the table and they sat around it and laid their feet under the cloth .it made them feel hot,as they can talked and enjoy being together.we can see it at some traditional house specially grand parents` house.