Festivals refer to a day or period of the year when people stop working to celebrate a special event. Festivals are common to all societies and cultures. Most festivals in Bangladesh have the stamp of religion. Besides, there are some festivals in Bangladesh are related to community, nationality and politics.
Religious festivals of Bangladesh: There are many people of different religion lives in Bangladesh. Let's know about there festivales.
Muslim festivals
The two main religious festivals of the Muslims of Bangladesh are Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha. Eid-ul-Fitr is observed after the fasting of the month of Ramadan. On Eid-ul-Azha people sacrifice animals for the satisfaction of Almighty. Like all other social festivals, Eid's returns every year. Observance of Muharram is another popular Muslim festival of Bangladesh.
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Hindu festivals
The biggest religious festival of Hindu community in Bangladesh is Durga puja. Usually on the six lunar day of the bright fortnight in the Bengali month of Aswin, the national ceremonial awakening of goddess Durga takes place. Thereafter puja is performed for three days and on the tenth day the immersion of the image of Durga is held. Lakshmi puja, Sarawsati puja, kali puja, Manasha Puja, janmastami, etc are some other popular festavals of the Hindu community of Bangladesh.
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Christian festivals
Christmas day and Ester sun day are the main Christian festivals that are ostentatiously observed in Bangladesh.
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Buddhist festivales
For more than one thousands year, the Buddhist community of this region has been celebrating buddha purnima or Boishakhi purnima with great splendour. This festival is celebrated in the memory of the birth of Buddha, his adoption of asceticism and attainment of supreme enlightenment.
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Other festivals of Bangladesh
The Martyr's day, the Independence day, and the Victory day are the national days of Bangladesh. Every year these days are observed with great festivities. Birth anniversaries of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam have also turned into common cultural festivals of our country. Bizu festaval, held in Chaitra-the last month of Bengali year, is the significant festival of the chakma community of Bangladesh. However, a festival common to all classes of people and celebrate nationally with much grandeur is the observance of the new years day. Barsha Baran, Basanta Baran, Nabanna utshob etc are some other common festivals of Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh is the country of festivals. There goes a popular saying,"Baro mashe tero parbon"-"Thirteen festivals in twelbe month". This symbolizes the large number of festivals in our country. With the change of social and economic structures, the nature.of festivals are also changes. But some festivals are so deeply rooted in the social organism that they continue to entertain us from generation to generation.
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