Weddings: Bangladeshi people consider wedding as one of the most important episode of human life. Baul music celebrates celestial love in earthly terms. Pohela Boishakh is also celebrated in grand ways in capital Dhaka and other major cities of Bangladesh.īaul Mela: Every year, in the month of Falgun (February to March), “Lalon Smaran Utshab” (Lalon memorial festival) is held in the shrine of Lalon in Kushtia, where Bauls (itinerant mystic folk singers) and devotees of Lalon from Bangladesh and overseas come to perform and highlight the mystics of Fakir Lalon Shah, the undisputed king of Baul music. The fairs also provide entertainment with singers, dancers and traditional plays and songs. On this day, Fairs are arranged in many parts of the country where various agricultural products, traditional handicrafts, toys, cosmetics, as well as various kinds of food and sweets are sold. People, dressed in colourful traditional clothes, visit their friends, relative and neighbours to exchange greetings. Businessmen, particularly in rural areas, close their old book of accounts and open new ones and treat their customers with traditional sweets to renew the business relationship. People start this day with new hope thoroughly scrubbing the failures and sorrows of the preceding year. It is closely linked with the rural life. Pohela Boishakh is an integral part of Bangladesh’s cultural heritage. Pohela Boishakh: It is the first day of the Bengali calendar which falls on 14th April of Gregorian calendar. A traditional Poush Mela (traditional fair) would essentially include a Jatrapala (a traditional theatre), traditional dance and music concerts, along with a wide variety of rice-milk-molasses based delicacies called pitha. With a full granary for the winter, it is the time for the agrarian rural Bengalis to relax and engage in merriment and cultural activities. Nabanna Utsab & Poush Mela: The Nabanna Utsab (new harvest festival) is celebrated predominantly by rural agrarian population of Bangladesh in Poush, the first month of winter season of the Bengali calendar. Exchange of greetings and gifts is common on the Day. Women usually wear yellow sharis and decorate themselves with floral ornaments. On this occasion, people wear colour dresses and colourful fairs and cultural programmes organized. Although a few festivals are primarily meant for particular sections of the population, all the festivals have now attained universal reach throughout the country.īasanta Utsab: It is the first day of spring, celebrated in a very colourful manner throughout the country on the 1st day of Falgun, the 11th month of Bangla calender, which falls in mid-February of Gregorian calendar. Festivals in Bangladesh fall into four major categories: religious festivals, national events, cultural festivals, tribal festivals. Some Bengali fairs and festivals have recorded history of over 2000 years. We celebrate our faith, life, liberty, nature, elation, and achievements round the year through a wide variety of fairs and festivals, organized with inexorable enthusiasm and intricate details. Bangladesh is a country of colourful celebrations.
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