Yalda`s night.

Hi there! I`m going to share some information about a traditional ceremony.

It`s about 11:30 a.m in Iran and tonight we will have this traditional ceremony. This ceremony (can you think of other words? How about "festival", or "celebration"? It's always better to avoid repeating the same words in English) is called Yalda`s Night, and it which takes place in on the longest night of the year (on + [day] (eg. "on Monday"); in + [month] (eg. "in December)) ( that is the last night of the the autumn season ) and we welcome and celebrate the first day of the winter.
It`s a tradition to visit our parents and grandparents and celebrate this night with them ( also it`s a kind of a respect to elderly people in the relatives to go to their house whenever there is a ceremony )
There are some special stuffs things (like food and fruits) to eat . The first famous stuff thing is watermelon( which is rare in this season but it is provided already to have this fruit in this season).Another stuff is pomegranate, which is a very famous fruit in Iran .) and some special sort of nuts , cookies and candies.
And the best part of this ceremony is sitting around a Korsi ( kind of a traditional heat (table?) and i will put its picture here) and reading some Persian poetry ( mainly Hafez`s poetry ) And we open Hafez`s poetry book by chance at a random page and we (you can say "we", but it sounds better to remove it) read the poem we choose randomly (or, "whichever poem we find") to see from the poem how this year will go on. It`s a kind of a entertainment but it does not mean we believe whatever the poetry says is true.
And we have a dinner with our dear relatives and we have tons of fun talking to each other , eating a lot of delicious food and totally (totally what?)
This is a very ancient ceremony from the past (about hundred years ago) but we still celebrate it and we love it.

This is a musical card postal for Yalda`s night. I wish you a beautiful winter :)

http://yon.ir/yaldacard5