Miscellaneous Culture Investigation of Bangladesh

Miscellaneous Culture Investigation of Bangladesh

Culture & Tradition:

Culture mentions to the snowballing deposit of knowledge, knowledge, politics, standards, arrogances, connotations, pyramids, conviction, philosophies of time, characters, spatial relations, ideas of the world and material objects and belongings acquired by a group of people during generations through separate and group determined.

Each alive life is devoted in culture whether humans or faunae. Culture is natural growth during birth process {What we call is behaviour, that changes from separate to separate expanded when lives in family that family is part of a society (group or public), behaviour of the group is culture) and its development is based on acumen reaction to involvements and needs. Culture is processing to live in group. Each civilization has averages to follow by individuals to remember civilization strong and intact. Culture is a process for uniqueness of living people and cultural development raises the identity of society, advantage goes to its persons. Culture discriminates from group to group (as behaviours changes) though major part remains same as human ethos to separate from other classes. This gives different uniqueness.

For civilization’s culture there is one separate behind who extends or founds the cultural status. Culture established by opinions, trust, applies, levies, way to live, art, aptitude, etymological, food behaviours, and economy etc; Cultural growth gave identity to the civilizations that named, Muslim or Christian or Hindu or Jewish or Buddhist etc; have changed nations. So, when we come across art, customs etc; we identify what is their ethos or which conviction they appropriate.

Culture effects many features of our life, private and community, from foreign activities to love affairs. It positively influences various factors that on various levels and through dispersed apparatuses contribute to create a marvel known as nation imprinting.

Anholt regards culture in triple role:

•  Source of value,
•  Communicator of value and
•  Revenue earner.

He contends that culture delivers or even establishes the “third dimension”. In other words, he claims nation stamping is all about the culture as without it the arena shrinks and fades to

look like merely a ‘normal’ profitable marking. He also calls for converging on culture in country promotion and opposes the relegated status of culture as ‘not-for-profit movement, kind of generous responsibility within the overall elevation of a country.

Cultural features measured are insights of a country’s tradition, its fashionable cultural “vibes” from music, films, art and poetry, as well as the country’s excellence in sports. Various cultural activities are presented to defendants to gauge their sturdiest images of a country’s national “product”

Culture of Bangladesh:

Bangladesh has an amusing, assorted culture. Its deeply rooted tradition is thoroughly echoed in its style, dance, literature, music, painting and fashion. The three prime religions of Bangladesh (Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism) have a great stimulus on its culture and history.

The people of Bangladesh have an amusing imaginary legacy, with the first available form literature being over a thousand years old. Bengali literature industrialized significantly during the medieval period with the rise of popular poets such as Chandi Das, Daulat Kazi an Alaol.

The old-style music of Bangladesh is very much the same as that of the Indian sub-continent. The music in Bangladesh can be separated into three main classes: traditional, current and folk. Most widespread of folk songs and music ethnicities include Bhatiali, Baul, Marfati, Murshidi and. Lyricists like Lalon Shah, Hason Raja, Kangal Harinath, Romesh Shill, Abbas Uddin lead many unknown unidentified lyrists have enriched the institution of folk songs of Bangladesh. In comparatively modern context, Rabindra Sangeet and Nazrul geeti form valuable cultural tradition of Bangladesh. Both vocal and involved classical music is appreciated in Bangladesh. Ustad Ayet Ali Khan and Ustad Alauddin are two well-known classical contributory players that are worldwide known. Modern music is becoming more widespread and is experienced widely. Contemporary, pop songs and bands are also enjoying more widespread fame.

Several melodic tools, some of them native origin, are used in Bangladesh, and major musical tools used are bamboo flute (banshi), drums (dole), a single stringed instrument named extra, a four-stringed tool called dotara, a pair fo metal

bawls used for rhythm effect called mandira. Now, several musical instruments of cowboy movie origin like guitar, drums and saxophone are also used, sometimes alongside the traditional instruments.

Tribal dances are very popular amongst the Bangladeshis. The countryside girls are in the habit of dancing to popular folk music. Their dances require no guidelines are such, just a small amount of bravery and a big amount of beat. Popular songs like Shari and Jari are presented with the associated dace both male and female actors.

Another significant aspect of the culture of Bangladesh is clothing. Bangladeshi woman frequently wears Saris of the world famous and expensive. Excellently embellished quilted patchwork cloth produced by the hamlet woman. Woman will conventionally wear their hair in a warped bun, which is called the “Beni style”. Hindus will conventionally wear Dhuty for religious determinations. These days most men of Bangladesh wear shirts and pants.

Bangladesh has an antiquity. The land, the rivers and the lives of the joint people formed an amusing bent age with obvious changes from neighbouring regions. It has changed over the centuries and incorporates the cultural diversity of several social groups of Bangladesh.

Festivals and revels:

Festivals and revels are essential part of the culture of Bangladesh. Protruding and broadly renowned festivals are Pohela Baishakh, Language Movement Day, Independence Day, National Mourning Day, Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Azha, Eid-E- Miladunnabai, Muharram, and Durga puja.

Pohela Boishakh:

Pohela Boishakh is the first day of the Bangla datebook. It is the anniversary that is renowned by the people of all religions. In today’s Bangladesh, the festival is ahead prominence, which is not connected to religion. It is experimental with great eagerness on the first day of Baisakh. Its main distinguishing is that it is a social festival and its appeal is universal.

It is usually renowned on the 14^th of April. Pohela Boishakh marks the start day of the crop season. The most colourful New Year’s Day festival takes place in Dhaka. Large numbers of people gather early in the morning under the banyan tree at Ramna Park where Chhayanat artists open the day with Rabindranath Tagore’s famous song, Esho, he Boishakh, Esho Esho. Men Women Children also celebrate and they enjoyed very much in this day.  

Social and cultural administrations celebrate the day with cultural programs. Newspapers bring out superior complements. There are also special programs on radio and television. Prior to this day, special reductions on clothes, furniture, electronics and various deals and shopping reductions are available. Special line of sarees, usually cottons, and white sarees with red print/embroidery is sold before this day as everyone dresses up for this day. Jasmine flowers are also a huge sale for this event which adorns the women’s hair.

The Halkhat purpose, experiential mainly by the merchant community, the wholesalers complete their accounts of the previous year on the eye or New Year’s Day. On this day, the customers pay some advance and the merchants treat them with sweetmeats. There are some who prepare better quality food, including sweetmeats, on the New Year’s Day.

Language Movement Day:

In the world individual Bangladesh is the country who war for freedom for her Language. Language Movement Day is an exceptional part of the culture of Bangladesh. Every year on February 21 this day is experiential to pay tribute to the martyrs who foregone their lives to establish Bengali as the official language of then East Pakistan in 1952. The mood of the day is sad and modest.

The festivity of Language Movement Day goes on the entire month of February. Ekushey book fair is a book fair decided to mark this occasion every year. The fair has also become an integral part of the culture of Bangladesh. Authors and readers in Bangladesh willingly await the fair each year.

To honour this movement, Shaheed Minar, a symbolic sculpture, was created in the place of the massacre. Today the Shaheed Minar is the centre of national activities in Dhaka. On the morning of February 21 each year, people from all walks of life including the national leaders pay tribute to the martyrs by leaving flowers at Shaheed Minar. A very harmonious and melancholy song, Amar Bhaier Rokte Ranano Ekousae February Ami ki Volitay Pari, written by Abdul Gffar choudhury and composed by Altaf Mahmud, is played repeatedly in electronic media and cultural.

assemblies throughout the month, and especially on February 21. This song, too, has become a representative mark of culture of Bangladesh. In 1999, UNESCO declared the day as ‘International Mother Language Day’ and is observed the day though out the world.

Independence Day:

One of the main state festivals in Bangladesh is ‘Independence Day’. The day is observed on 26 March in every year. In this day in 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh. In this day, the country attires a celebratory look especially in principal city and other major cities of the country. People from all corners of the society including development leaders, social-political organizations and freedom battalions place, cultural administrations, students, intellectuals, journalists,

 Head of the foreign missions, floral wreaths at the National Martyrs Monument at savar. Bangla Academy, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and other socio-cultural organizations hold cultural functions, discussions, meetings comments all over the country. For a dazzling look, all public and private buildings and establishments are illuminated.

Victory Day:

Another important state-festival is observed on 16 December in every year as the ‘Victory Day’ of the country. Dissimilar agendas are introduced on this day like the ‘Independence Day’ throughout the country. The leader of the Pakistani livelihood forces submitted on 16 December 1971 at Suhrawardy Uddayan formerly known as the Race Course Maiden in Dhaka and Bangladesh became as an independent country.

Eid ul-Fitr:

As the most vital religious festival for the majority Muslims, the festivity of Eid ul-Fitr has become a part of the culture of Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh declares holiday for three days on Eid-ul fitr. People living in towns having their relatives or parents in hamlets go to their hamlets to meet relatives and celebrate the festival together.

Adult Muslim males in Bangladesh accumulate at the Eid Ghah for prayer in the morning of the Eid day. On Eid day, Eid prayers are held all over the country, in open areas like fields or else inside mosques. In Dhaka, the main Eid prayer is held at the national Eidgah. The biggest audience of Bangladesh is held at Sholakia in Kishoreganj, where about half a million people join the Eid prayer. After the Eid prayers, people return home, visit each, other’s home and eat sweet dishes called Shirin. Throughout the day aristocrats hug each other. It is also usual for junior members of the society to touch the feet of the seniors, and seniors returning sanctifications (sometimes with a small sum of money as a gift). Eid ul-Azha: The celebration of Eid ul-Adha is similar to Eid ul-Fitar in many ways. The only big change is the Qurbani or disadvantage of domestic animals of Eid ul-Azha. Many temporary market places of different sezes called Haat operate in the big cities for sale Qurbani animals (usually cows and goats).

In the morning on the Eid day, unswervingly after the prayer, those who can afford to slaughter their animal of choice. Less affluent people also take part in the festivity by visiting houses of the affluent who are taking part in Qurbani. After the Qrubani a large portion of the meat is given to the poor people.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi:

Eid-e-Miladunnabi is the birth and death anniversary of the great Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (s) which is very central day to the Muslim community.

He was born and died the same day on 12^th Rabiul Awal (Lunar Month). The Muslim community offers superior prayers, milad mahfils, munajats and the deliberations are arranged on the Islamic ideals, way of life and teaching of the prophet (s). the day is countrywide a holiday.

Muharram:

The Day is experiential through a traditional sorrowful procession of Muslim civic which is observed in 10^th Muharram in (Arabic month) in memory of the awful death of Imam Hussain (RA) on this day at Karbala in Iraq.

Bishwa Istima:

A three-day long biggest audience during December-January is held in every year at Tongi, Gazipur near the principal city Dhaka. It is the second biggest Muslim assembly in the world shadowed by the Holy Hazz at Mecca. About 15 to 20 lakh Muslim aficionados from the different part of the great Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (s), offer a special prayer for the peace of Muslim Ummah as well as for the well-being of the world at the end of the audience.

Rabindra and Nazrul Jayanti:

Birth bicentenary of the noble laureate Rabindranath tagore on 25^th Baishakah (7 May) and some of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on 11^th Jaystha (25 May) are experimental throughout the country. Different cultural programs are decided and deliberations are held on those junctures.

Durga Puja:

The Hindu civic observes their biggest religious centenary popularly known as Durga Puja throughout country for ten days and the last three days being conclusion with

the idol engrossed in rivers. Another very good-looking festival of Hindu civic which is known as Langalbandh Mela is experiential by them every year near Sonargaon on the last day of Chaittra (last Bengali month).

Christmas:

The main festival of Christmas civic popularly known as “Bara Din (Christmas Day)”

is celebrated in 25^th December including illumination of churches, decoratin Christmas tree and other Christian festivities and it is also a govt holiday. Several day-long large gatherings are held a St Mary’s Cathedral at Ramna, Portuguese church at Tejgaon, Church of Bangladesh (Protestant) on Johnson Road and Bangladesh Baptist Sangha at Sadarghat Dhaka.

Buddha Purnima:

The main and significant religious festival of Buddhist community is observed

throughout the country. They also celebrate Baishakhi Purnima and Maghi Purnima throughout the country. In adding to that, various other centenaries are usually observed by Bangaless all the year round.

Pohela Falgun and Valentine Day:

Thousands of fledgling people, both male and female, are taking part in the twin revelries of Pohela Falgun [The first day of Spring rendering to Bangla calendar] and Valentine’s Day acclaiming the arrival of spring and distribution the great day of love. The youths revel the junctures wearing colourful dresses, carrying flowers in their hands and singing love songs as well as spring songs.

People of the country wait keenly all the year for spring centenary with new hopes and ambitions. Spring is the most good-looking season of the year and girls welcome the arrival of spring in Pahela Falgun tiring yellow saris.

Around 1,50,000 companies come to enjoy this colourful event each year. Folk dances, folk music, recitals and rallies throughout the premises of the University of Dhaka are carried out as part of the Bashanta Utshab. The nearby area turned into Bashanti (yellow) colour with almost everyone rotating up in yellow sarees, kameezes, or panjabees. Some of them even painted their faces to make the day yet more colourful.

Lalon Mela:

Fokir Lalon Shah, a protuberant theorist poet in the cultural history of Bangladesh, recognized a characteristic ritual of logical thoughts through his thousands of songs

 
and configurations. This fabled figure was born on 1774 CE and died on 1890, leaving contentious issues concerning his individuality. He lived in the village Cheuria at Noda of British-India era and Kushtia district of present Bangladesh. He is called as the Baul Shamrat (the Emperor of Bauls) for his characteristic views about life which denies the concrete businesses of the search of trance of human soul. His own vision on human life has become the important jin developing baul thoughts among the Bauls in this arena of the world.

Every year, on the first week of April, a fair is prearranged on the eve of his birthday at Kushtia. The akhra (the place where Lalon lived) is ornamented colourfully during this time and thousands of his followers from different places of the country gather here to revel the day.

Singers of Lalon Academy with ektara and other musical instrument, perform Lalon’s song all through the night for three days.  Several crowds of Baul sit at dissimilar places of the Akhra. Among the Bauls, Fakir Humayun Shah is the prominent one. Lots of people join the crowd to enjoy the song of Laloon from Humayun’s and his fans’ voice. On this day, the place becomes a meeting of Lalon’s fans who remember him practicing his logical thoughts and execution his thousands of arrangements.

weddings:

Bengali weddings are usually in five parts: first it is the bride and groom’s Mehendi

Shondha, the bride’s Gaye Holud, the groom’s Gay Holud, the Beeya and the Bou Bhaat. These often take place on detached days. The first event in a wedding is an relaxed one: the groom gifts the bride with a ring marking the “engagement” which is gaining admiration.

For the mehendi shondha the wife’s side apply henna to each other as well as the wife. for the bride’s Gaye Holud, the groom’s family- except the groom himself- go in parade to the bride’s home. Bride’s friends and family apply turmeric paste to her body as a part of Haye Holud of bride, and they are usually all in matching clothes mostly orange in colour.

The real formality “Beeye” shadows the Gaye Holud rituals. The wedding ceremony is decided by the bride’s family. On the day, the younger members of the bride’s family barricade the entrance to the venue, and demand a sort of admission charge from the groom in return for allowing him to enter. The bride and groom are seated distinctly, and a Kazi (authorized person by the govt. to achieve the wedding), convoyed by the parents and a  Wakil (witness) from each side e formally asks the bride for her consent to the union, and then the groom for his consent.

The greeting, also known as Bou-Bhaat (reception), is a party given by the groom’s family in return for the wedding party. It is characteristically a much more relaxed affair , with only the second-best wedding outfit being worn.

Jabbar er Boli Khela:

Boli is an old-style form of struggling in Bangladesh, chiefly popular in the Chittagong area. Boli menas an influential person in Bengali, while Khela denotes a game. It is chiefly played in the month of Chaitra (March-April) of the Bangla Calendar. The present-day boli khela was introduced in 1909 by Abdul Jabbar Saodagar.

Nobanno Utsab:

Nobanno is the centenary of severest in Bengal. The word interprets as “New Rice”. The centenary takes place in the month of agrohayon or Aghran of the Bangla Calendar. Revelries include making traditional cakes named “pitha”.

Nabanno ‘the old-style yearly event marking the harvest of new crops, was famous with much fanfare across the country. In the capital, the university of Dhaka celebrations are held at Bakultala at the Institute of Fine Arts on November 15. The Jatiya Nabanno Utshob Udjapan Parishan has been taking steps to encourage Nabanno Utshob in Dhaka for the last twelve years. They decided the day long revels.

The centenary included recitations, dance and folk songs, particularly Jari and Sari with members of several cultural governments performing traditional dances. The country’s leading artistes and cultural organizations, including Udichi, Kachi Kanchar Mela, Khelaghar also took part.

Sports:

Football, cricket are most general games in Bangladesh. Kabaddi is the national sport of Bangladesh. Cricket is a game which has an enormous and fervent following in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has linked the best group of countries eligible to play Test cricket since 2000. The Bangladesh national cricket team goes by the nickname of the Tigers—after the Royal Bengal Tiger.

The cricketing philosophy is not a new marvel in Bangladesh. Following the liberation war which ended in Bangladesh ahead independence in 1971, cricketing popularity has sustained to grow. Recently Bangladesh women’s cricket team champion the Asia Cup against India. This is Bangladesh cricket history.