Chahar Shanbeh Soori - Ancient Persian Fire Festival- Tuesday Night March 18^th, 2014

“Char Shanbeh Soori”, or in many variations of its spelling; Chahar Shanbeh Souri, Chahar Shanbeh Suri, 4Shanbeh Soori, etc., is one of the major celebration of the Iranian people that they celebrate on the night of last Tuesday of the Iranian new year. For more detail information about Persian or Iranian New Year "No_Rooz", please visit http://www.TexasFiveSTarRealty.com/NoRooz.asp

 Chaharshanbe-Suri (Persian: چهارشنبه‌سوری), pronounced Charshanbe-Suri (Persian: چارشنبه‌سوری) is the ancient Iranian festival dating at least back to 1700 BCE of the early Zoroastrian era. The festival of fire is a prelude to the ancient Norouz festival, which marks the arrival of spring and revival of nature. Chahrshanbeh Suri, is celebrated the last Tuesday night of the year. The word Chahar Shanbeh means Wednesday and Suri is red. The bon fires are lit at the sunset and the idea is to not let the sun set. Bon fires are lit to keep the sun alive till early hours of the morning. The celebration usually starts in the evening. On this occasion people make bon-fires on the streets and jump over them. The young shoot lots of fireworks before and during Chaharshanbe Suri (literally: Feast Wednesday).