In Bangladesh we celebrate two major festivals. They are known as Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Azha.
Eid ul-Fitr
This is the most important religious festival for Muslim religion. We also called this day as “EID”. The most significant part of this festival day is, we celebrate this day after fasting one whole month. This is considered as the holiest month of the year. From dawn to dusk mostly adults don’t eat or drink anything for a month. We called this month is as Ramadan. Eid ul-Fitr starts the day after Ramadan end.
The celebration of Eid ul-Fitr has become a part of the culture of Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh declares holiday for three days. Everyone wants to spend this day with their family.
Adult Muslim males in Bangladesh assemble at the Eid Ghah for prayer in the morning of the Eid day. After the prayer everyone visit their family and friends and have good food together. Everyone wear new traditional dress. Girls paint henna on their hand. All local TV channels air special program for several days for this occasion.
In the rural areas Eid festival is observed with great fanfare. In some areas local people arrange Eid fair, Different types of games e.g. boat race, kabbadi, other traditional Bangladeshi games.
Eid day is a day of forgiveness. To celebrate this festival rich people donate money to help poor. This is the day everyone believe that all human are equal and everyone should respect each other equally.
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