Bangladesh's Rich Heritage in Fashion and Culture

Blog Writing

Student's Name: Nusrat Jahan Anika

Student ID: 24101623

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Course Title: English Fundamentals

Course code: ENG101

Section: 24

Semester: Spring 2024

Submitted to: Sabah Tasnia Rowshon (Faculty)

Date of Submission: 11 September, 2024 

BANGLADESH'S RICH HERITAGE IN FASHION AND CULTURE

Bangladesh is a beautiful country which has a fascinating culture. Besides these fascinating culture, there are various kinds of festivals, music, architectures, varieties of foods, religions, etc. The people of different religions live here with peace and they are showing respect to each other even they are not following the different religions. We can see that the people of our country are really very simple, kind and religious. They are very hospitable for forever. In one sentence, Bangladesh is a country with full of rich heritage in fashion and culture, with also so many beautiful and kind hearted people. 

So, now I'll be talking about so many kind of heritage in fashion and culture individually.

Festivals:

First of all, if I want to start from various kinds of festivals of Bangladesh, there are so many kinds of festival in our Bangladeshi culture. Festivals are the most important and interesting part for every religious people and the people of different religious don't show disrespect to other religious. Also, there are some common festivals which are celebrated by everyone of every religion's. Pohela Baishakh is one of them.

Pohela Baishakh, is the first day of the Bengali year, which is usually celebrated on 14 April in every year. People celebrate this day as just like Eid day. They wake up very early in the morning, clean their home, take a bath , and dress with clean clothes. In this day, so many fairs are arranged by people of our country where we can find so many kinds of traditional handicrafts, toys, agricultural products, cosmetics, various kinds of foods and sweets, etc. We can also see that these fairs provide us various kinds of entertainment for all ages people such as traditional games., doll dances, horse races, boat racing, cock fighting, bull races, flying pigeons, target games and so on, which can refresh our mind very easily. People usually go to these fairs for refreshing their mind, trying the traditional Bengali foods and sweets and also for buying binge traditional things for enhancing the beauty of their house.

Baisakhi Mela

One of the most important religious festival for all the Muslims are the are Eid. There are two Eid day for the Muslims, and these two Eid are the biggest festival for them in a year. These two Eid are Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha. The government of Bangladesh declares the holiday is In usually for a week on these two Eid days. Eid-ul-Fitr is the first big  festival for all Muslims and this is the most happiest day for them because they can celebrate this day with all the family members after one month Ramadan days. They pray there Eid prayers and enjoy all day long with family and so many delicious Bengali traditional foods which are made by our mothers at home. One of the most interesting things of this day is collecting Eid gifts from our elders by touching their feet. Even now, collecting of these Eid gifts and apply mehndi on my hands are the most entertainment part of my Eid days.

Eid-ul-Fitr

The second most important religious festival is Eid-ul-Azha, which is called Bakri Eid sometimes. This day is similar to Eid-ul-Fitr in many ways, but the main difference is the sacrifice of domestic animals, which is called Kurbani. In this day, all Muslims are sacrificed an animal's life by the name of their almighty Allah, They usually buy cows. goats and sheep for doing this Kurbani after finishing their Eid prayers and distribute these meets with each other, even with poor people's relatives and neighbors. So, these two Eid teach us so many things and these days are the most happiest days for us in a year.

Moreover, there are so many festivals for Hinduism people, such as Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Basant Panchami, Rath Yatra, Holi and Janmashtami. There are also some festivals for Buddhism people such as Buddha Purnima and Maghi Purnima. Christmas and Easter for Christian's people and so on.

Traditional foods or cuisine:

Obviously, Bangladesh is a famous country for its various kinds of delicious and also traditional foods and snacks. The main food of Bangladeshi people is rice and fish. Moreover, they love to eat so many kinds of vegetables, egg, meat preparations of mutton, beef, chicken, duck, sheep, etc. Also, Bangladeshi people love to taste the sweet foods which are made by milk, such as shondesh, roshogolla, chom-chom, jilapi, kalojam, payesh, gulab jam, roshmalai and more. Our Bangladeshi cuisine is rich and varied with the use of many specialized spices and flavors. There are so many spicy foods in our country such as various kinds of spicy bhortas, spicy curries(fish and meat curries and more) and so on which are the traditional foods in our country. One of the most popular traditional food of our country is pitha which is made by sweet ingredients and also sometimes with spicy ingredients such as nokshi pitha, semai pita, mangsho pitha, teler pitha, bhapa pitha and more. Pithas are most common in season of Sharoth, Hemanto and Sheet.

Bangladeshi Traditional Foods

 Also, there are so many traditional clothes for men and women. Women are traditionally wear saree and shalwar kameez. Men are traditionally wear kurta or Punjabi, fotua, lungi, pant, shirt and more. All people of our country try to wear traditional outfits during the festive occasions, weddings and celebrations.

Moreover, there are so many architectures and heritages in our country. For instance, Lalbagh Fort (Mughal architecture of Bangladesh), Ahsan Manzil in old Dhaka(Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture of Bangladesh), Jatiyo Songsad Bhaban(the Parliament House of Bangladesh), Kantajew Temple(Prominent Hindu architecture of Bangladesh) are the most popular architectures and heritages in our country.

Lalbagh Fort

Ahsan Manzil

So, last of all, we can say that our country Bangladesh is full of with so many rich architectures, various kinds of festivals, cuisines, clothes, music and more things which make our country more beautiful. Obviously, Bangladesh has an impressive culture and I love my country so much. I feel really very proud of my country.