TEHRAN (IP) -- The closing ceremony of the 4th Ferdowsi National Festival for talented school students was held on Tuesday.
Iran’s Minister of Education, Yousef Nouri, and the director of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, also attended the ceremony.
Attending the ceremony, the director of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature said that literature carries culture, and if anyone combines it with insight and wisdom will gain success.
Also, Iran’s Minister of Education said: “Perhaps every story from the Shahnameh can be a reference for the main content of many computer games in the computer game industry, so we should try to strengthen the imagination and creativity of students through the Shahnameh.”
Youssef Nouri emphasized that we should recognize the Persian language as a reference to the world. The Persian language has the ability to disseminate the teachings of the Islamic Revolution to the world.
At the end of the ceremony, the winners were awarded.
Ferdowsi was born in Khorasan in a village near Tous in 935 CE His great epic, The Shahnameh (The Epic of Kings), to which he devoted most of his adult life, was initially composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Persian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century.
The Shahnameh or The Epic of Kings is one of the definite classics of the world. It tells hero tales of ancient Persia. The contents and the poet’s style in describing the events take the readers back to ancient times and make them a sense of and feel the events. Ferdowsi worked for thirty years to finish this masterpiece.