Iranians believe that they should not stay at home on the 13th day of the new year and they should definitely leave the house on that day and visit nature. Otherwise, the misfortune of the thirteenth day will catch them.

The Iranian government has designated this day as "Nature’s Day" to keep the people away from ancient and traditional beliefs that are contrary to Islamic religious ones. Iranians, however, are still the same people who, on the 13th of Farvardin (the first month of the Persian calendar), expel themselves from their homes with all their might.

Throwing grass into water (or in some cases dropping it on the street corner!) Is also a custom of Unlucky Thirteen day.

Some people tie the grass so they can tie the knot and open their fortunes!

The Thirteenth’s Lie (coinciding with the first day of April and April’s foul) is another amusement of the thirteenth of Farvardin.

People in different cities have their own traditions as well. Some come to the cemetery and spend the day with the dead.

And I... I grabbed my bike and spent thirteen by the sea. The foggy sea, the end of which was invisible, and the sun, which was struggling to pull itself out from behind the clouds, but its glittering splendor was hardly hidden. And the shining sea and the waves that quietly made their way to the shore and disappeared in silence.

I went to the sea in the morning and everything was quiet. But I knew very well that this silence would end, soon this fog would give way to the sun, and this place would be filled with people who had come out to get rid of the misfortune of thirteen’s.