shiraz the city of roses and poets

Sunday, May 21, 2006



Is house work degrading?
This is question in many families still leads to severe quarrels and there are still many couples who don’t have agreement on this matter. They are concerned with their attitudes toward each other while this problem would be easily solved. Doing works in the house is not that much important to make family members fight with each other, so it is better to find a solution for that.
When two couples get married they accept many responsibilities. In fact they get married to have a better life and that can be possible with sharing works and caring about their duties. It is unjust to make one of the couples do all the house work while the other one devotes all the time to amusement. Happy life depends on sharing everything together and it is inevitable that house work should be divided too.
It is very sad to see a woman doing all the house work alone while her husband is watching TV. She would get tired very soon and there would be a very large distance between the couples. The problem is that they think that house work is degrading but is it really so?
In Iranian families it is often women who spend most of their time dealing with house work while most of the men spend their time working outside the house. Most of the men think that house work is degrading and they refuse to do it. So women have to do all the house work from morning to night and that is very difficult. Home –that is a place for relaxing- becomes a place only to get her energy and make her tired. If men considered house work as one of their other duties, they would have had much more happy wives.

Monday, May 08, 2006


SA'ADI

Mosleh al_Din Sa'adi Shirazi, also known as Sa'adi lived in Shiraz seven centuries ago. He traveled to many places and he could gain lots of experience. When he came back to Shiraz he started to write his two great books. One of them is called Boustan that is written in poetry and the other one is called Golestan which is in poetry and verse. What he has written in these two books are mostly stories that have many teaching points in them. Morality and humanity are two important concepts in his works. What he gained in 40 years of traveling can be found in these two books.
Boustan and Golestan of Sa'adi are great works of Persian literature and there are lots of people who are very interested in them. These two works of art are translated to other languages like English, Russian, etc.
Sa'adi's tomb is located in the north-east of Shiraz in a very beautiful garden with lots of trees and flowers. You can see sour orange trees around the garden that are very sweet smelling in spring. Also there are many beautiful flowers that make this garden really unique and wonderful. There is a very big pond of water in the garden with a lot of fish playing in it. Pretty fountains really amuse the people who visit this place.
People drop some coins in that pond for there is a nice idea behind this action. They think that if they wish for something and drop a coin in the pond, they would reach to their wishes. Sa'adi and his ideas attract a lot of people to his tomb. There is a lot to gain if you come to Shiraz and I'm sure you would enjoy it.

Here is a nice and famouse poem by Sa'adi:

Of one Essence is the human race,

Thusly has Creation put the Base;

One Limb impacted is sufficient,

For all Others to feel the Mace.

Friday, May 05, 2006


CHINA the Country I Like to Visit
China is one of the Asian countries that I am very interested to visit. This country has a great wall that was made many years ago. People in this country have special food and clothes. They are also very proud of their ancient civilization and what their ancestors have done in this region.
One of the greatest wishes of mine is to visit the great wall of China. In my childhood I dreamed of riding bicycle on China wall in the sweet smelly spring days. All the pictures that I had in mind from China were the beautiful spring pictures that I mostly saw in Chinese films. Now that I'm twenty years old, I still have my childhood dreams.
Like any other country, China has special food. Unfortunately I have not eaten Chinese food but my friends talk of it with pleasure. Also Chinese custom, as it is shown in their films, makes me very interested to visit this country.
Chinese toys are very popular especially among children because China exports different kinds of toys to many countries. I like to go to this country and bye as many toys as I can.
If I go to China one day, I might find many other beauties in this country. I keep my dream in my mind until the day I visit this ancient country.