Doodle: Norouz

March 21st, 2007 - By Haochi

Google is celebrating the traditional Persian new year holiday on its Persian home page.

Norouz is the traditional Iranian new year holiday in Iran, Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Albania, Georgia, various countries of Central Asia such as Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, as well as among the Iranian peoples in Iraq, Pakistan,Turkey, and everywhere else. [Wikipedia]

I think those green plants are ~~garlics, as described in Wikipedia, “garlic - symbolizing medicine“, as part of the Haft Sin table~~ grasses, “symbolizing an act or wishing good luck come forth this year as ridding of the bad of the last”.

[via Zorgloob]

3 Responses to “Doodle: Norouz”

mo Says:
March 31st, 2007 at 4:31 am

The ‘green plants’ are grass. And are returned to nature on the 13th of the new year, in a tradition called ’13’s ridding’; symbolizing an act or wishing good luck come forth this year as ridding of the bad of the last.
;)

Haochi Says:
March 31st, 2007 at 8:17 am

Thanks for correcting my error! :)

mo Says:
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:40 am

thanks for the post !