Wednesday Bazaar

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چهارشنبه بازار

[ چهارشنبه بازار در شمال ايران ]

در كودكي هميشه آرزوي ديدن دريا و لمس آن را از نزديك داشتم تا بالاخره در دوران جواني سفري به شمال ايران داشتيم.

اين سفر باعث آشنايي من با فرهنگ و زندگي مردم آنجا شد. بازارشمالي ها كاملا متفاوت از بازار اهالي جنوب بود. زنان شمالي بسيار فعّال و عهده دار بسياري از وظايف بودند مانند خانه داري، كشاورزي و همچنين فروش محصولاتشان در بازار روز. زنان در شمال كشور نقش بزرگي در خانواده بعهده داشتند.

اما باوجود اینهمه انرژی و فعالیّت در میان زنان، سلطنت و قدرت واقعی بدست مردان بود درحالی که زنان خود را بادنیای کوچک مد، جواهر ، آرایش و غیبت کردن سرگرم می کردند.

Wednesday bazaar

[ Chahar-shanbeh Bazar ]

I dreamed about being close to the sea and being able to touch the water and watch the waves. At last, when I was a teenager, we went north for a vacation.

I not only saw the Caspian Sea, but I learned about the culture of the northern people. The bazaar up north was much different from the south’s. The women seemed to be doing everything, from housework, to toiling in the farms and orchards, and to even the selling of their products. And they seemed to be more liberal than women of the south. That showed me how women can have big roles in raising their families even if they, like all other Persian wives, are not the decision makers.

But despite all the female energy I saw around me, I also found the other extreme: men running a kingdom of sorts and their subordinate queens busy with their own small worlds of jewelry, cosmetics, Western fashions, and gossip.