Mehregan, a celebration of Iranian culture and tradition, was honored in Jamshid Jam boy’s primary school.
On Sunday, Mehr 9, 1401 Jamshid Jam primary school for boys, celebrated the ancestral Mehregan by decorating the Mehregan table and through the speech of religious teacher Firouze Foroudi about the symbols of the Mehregan table and other cultural programs. One of the ceremonies of Mehregan is to lay a special table on this day, called the Mehregan table. This table is spread on purple cloth. On it a plate full of 7 types of cereals (lentils, beans, etc.), a scale as a sign of balance (the autumn equinox), fruit of the season especially red ones such as pomegranates, apples, bergamot grapes, jujubes, elderberries, are placed.
Ash, halwa, sirug (siro), komach, changmal (chomal), and an exceptional food called “don: ash cooked from wheat, barley, lentils, mung beans, white beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, rice, and beets” are also among other eatables on the table. Mehregan, like other Zoroastrian festivals, has religious, mythological and natural philosophy and history. In the people’s belief the origin of Mehregan dates back to Fereydon’s victory over Zahhak, and from the natural point of view, the time of this ceremony promises the autumn equinox. This ceremony is held on the day of Mehr Izad from the month of Mehr (in the Zoroastrian calendar), equal to the tenth of Mehr in the country’s official calendar.
