Picnic in the Park: How This Day Marks the End of Nowruz

A ritual performed at the end of the picnic day is to throw away the ''Sabzeh'' from the Norouz' Haftsin table. The sabzeh is supposed to have collected all the sickness, pain and ill fate hiding on the path of the family throughout the coming year! Touching someone else's sabzeh on this thirteenth day or bringing it home is, therefore, is considered bad omen, and may inviting other peoples' pain and hardship to oneself.