Hello friends

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@steem4bangladesh

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Assalamu Alaikum

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I am @jollymonoara from Bangladesh .

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How are you all I hope you are well I am also well with your prayers . It's been a long time since you've been away and busy with family.Still trying, now to participate in the challenge through regular activity.

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Every country has some important festivals, special days of those festivals are special times we all people of the country irrespective of caste and religion celebrate every year with great joy.

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Steemit Engagement Challenge-s17w3 : National Festibal

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This season 17 Week 3 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge, we are asked about our national festival and how it makes us special so through this challenge I will try to answer questions challenging my clear opinion.

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What is the national festival of your country? How it started

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The national festival of Bangladesh generally refers to joyous festival celebrated in religious, social and traditional context .This festival can be celebrated internationally or socially and nationally some are celebrated religiously and some politically .However, as a result of the evolution of time, some of these festivals have changed their form, some have disappeared and some have been created in a new way, such as the #Pahela-Boishakh festival traditionally celebrated by Bengalis. But at the root of all festivals is joy and joy.

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Muslims, Hindus, Christians and Buddhists live in Bangladesh of different religions and there are people of different small ethnic groups in different hill districts .There's festival variation as well .

Such as-

• Muslim religious festivals Eid-ul-Azha and Eid-ul-Fitr.
• Hindus have Durga Puja and various festivals .
• Buddhist full moon of Buddhists and Christian Christmas and Easter Sunday .
• Sangrai of Rakhines and Biju festival of Chakmas in hill districts.There are also other types of festivals .

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Liberation war took place in Bangladesh in 1971 to achieve independence to save the country and its people from subjugation . Again there was a language movement in 1952 demanding Bengali as the national language . Many people of Bengal have gained independence at the cost of their lives in the liberation war and language movement, so special days are celebrated every year on special days of Bangladesh in their memory .

Such as-

• Martyrs' Day,
• Independence Day,
• Martyred Intellectuals Day and
• Victory Day .

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On national festival days in our country we have public and private holidays that day .
President and Prime Minister deliver speeches on the occasion of every national festival and highlight the significance of celebrations on every day .

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Martyrs' Day

• On February 21, 1952, the student society started a movement to establish Bengali as the state language in Bengali, the mother tongue, and when the Pakistani government opened fire on the students' march, Salam Barkat Rafiq Jabbar was martyred. To honor the Bengali language and the martyrs, from that day till today February 1st is officially celebrated as Martyr's Day as National Festival or Martyr's Day .

Shaheed Minar has been constructed in various educational institutions and offices, courts and places to honor the honor. Every year on this day of February 1st, garlands of flowers are placed in the central Shaheed Minar installed near Dhaka Medical College, both public and private, to honor the martyrs .

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Independence Day

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Independence Day is celebrated on March 26 every year since 1972. On this day in 1971, the struggling Bengalis broke the chains of subjugation from the groups of the Pakistani invading forces and won the war. Independence as the only Bengali nation achieved independence by winning a long nine-month war .To celebrate this day with due dignity every year through various programs nationally public and private with joy . Wreath laying at Savar National Memorial to honor martyred freedom fighters at sunrise . Besides, various cultural programs are organized on the occasion of Independence Day in various educational institutions and private institutions.

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Martyr Intellectual Day

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Intellectuals Day is celebrated on 14th December every year in Bangladesh
On this day in 1971, the Pakistani invasion forces killed the best intellectuals of Bengal .Pakistani Razakar Al Badr surrendered on December 16, two days after the assassination .And Bangladesh emerged as the only independent country .Since that day, this day is observed as Intellectual Day and every year wreaths are officially laid at Mirpur, Dhaka.

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Victory Day

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On ** December 16**, 1971, the final victory of Bengal was achieved through the surrender of Pakistani troops. Bangladesh emerged as a Bengali marriage nation . This day is observed as Great Victory Day.

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Pahela Boishakh

This 14 april day is the New Year festival which the Bengali nation celebrates every year with many joyous festivals.Celebrating Bengali New Year or Pahela Boishakh This day is the oldest tradition of our country . And social and cultural flows keep this tradition alive .Learn to move forward by erasing the old and accepting the new.

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Apart from these festivals and many other festivals of Bangladesh such as Navanna festival, Baisabi festival is another festival and every year in February it is book fair festival and every year in January international trade fair .

Each step of cooking Beef Birani is shown.

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Any kind of joyous event is a festival and this joyous festival removes all kinds of frustrations and worries of people and makes people more lively by making people happy. In this joyous festival, the rich and the poor, the poor, the poor, forget the differences between Hindus and Muslims and celebrate together..
Eid is the biggest religious festival of Muslims .

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Eid means joy Eid means happiness and this Eid brings messages of joy and union for Muslims. Rich and poor all forget violence and hatred together and chat together sharing happiness, sadness and joy .

Celebrates Eid-ul-Fitr after a month of fasting .The rich pay some amount of money from their accumulated wealth of one year through .

Eid-ul-Azha Qurbani Eid On this Eid, Muslims slaughter animals to please Allah according to their ability and distribute the meat of slaughtered animals among the poor and relatives.

Muslims all wear new clothes and pray Eid prayers together in Eidgah, rich and poor, chat with each other and visit relatives' houses. Various types of food are arranged and everyone eats together. Good eating, meeting with loved ones, searching stories and people of all classes can participate in this joy.

Social and national festivals are celebrated annually by the government and private sector and certain rules and regulations are adopted to celebrate each festival.

When the independence of Bangladesh was achieved after nine long months of bloody war, such festivals were observed with due solemnity and enthusiasm and following certain rules .

Especially on February 1st, mourning day is observed, so on that day the national flag is at half-mast and everyone wears black and white clothes and offers flower garlands barefoot at Shaheed Minar to pay respect to the martyrs.

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Cultural programs are organized in educational institutions at every festival.
On the occasion of Victory Day and Independence Day, schools, colleges, university offices and roads are decorated with red and green flags, hoisting of the national flag, military parade held at National Parade Square and this fuchkawa is attended by members of the country's Army, Air Force and Navy .The day is celebrated by team national anthem and cultural programs of various cultural patriotic songs.

This day wears red and green clothes, everyone attends cultural events.In addition to cultural programs, painting competitions, fairs, action competitions and various theater programs based on the Liberation War are organized .

No joyous festival is organized on February 1st as Martyr's Day .Everyone observes day of mourning .Also celebrates Victory Day on Independence Day.

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Pahela Boishakh everyone expressed joy and excitement
After settling the old accounts, new accounts are opened. Buses are introduced which are all Halkhata festivals and Baisakhi Mela festival is celebrated on this day.

This New Year festival starts in full color a few days before the preparations start .The day begins with different types of fairs and Mars processions, Bengali women in different colored sarees are decorated in pure Bengali style .May the mood of this festival be colorful in the whole of Bangladesh. May the mood of the New Year be scattered everywhere in the villages and towns. Welcome the new year with a bangla.

• Among the festivals of Bangladesh, this Pahela Boishakh festival is celebrated as a public festival and the officially declared day is observed as a holiday and on this day all employees are paid as festival allowance along with bonus.

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On this day, on the occasion of Pahela Boishakh, the University Fine Arts Institute took out a procession with different types of masks and animal portraits and toured the different roads of different cities . This Mars procession depicts the rural life of the villages of rural Bengal and all these classes of people participate in it.

A music program was organized at Ramna Botmule in the capital's Dhaka under the initiative of cultural organization Chayanot. April 14th marks Pahela Boishakh and the event begins early in the morning to welcome the new sun.

Do you have any special clothes or food to celebrate your national festival?

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Our national festivals are celebrated by wearing different types of food and different types of clothes especially around Pahela Boishakh. April 14 is the first day of the month of Baisakh in Bengal. And on this day fried hilsa fish with panta rice is a very popular dish, from various restaurants to homes, this dish is organized with different types of bharta.

Besides, various shopkeepers completed their calculations on the occasion of the Halkhata ceremony and distributed different types of sweet food to everyone .

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Besides, a variety of snack foods like Nimki Murali Batasa are available for purchase around the New Year fair .
Apart from this, different types of food are organized in different institutions especially biryani in national festivals. Biryani is a very popular dish that is served on any occasion.

Eid special food

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Tell us about your favorite memories from celebrating your national festival।

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Our national festivals are every year that day is a memorable that is written in the pages of history . Which we remember and observe every year.

Various national festivals used to organize cultural programs on different nights and day sports around that day . Every occasion I attended and performed patriotic and solo music . Participating got a prize every time.

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I have a very nice memory I shared that memory on the occasion of Pahela Boishakh. Usually we wear white and red sarees early in the morning with garlands of flowers in khopa and go to Ramnabotmule to watch cultural events and cheer all day long. But it's too late to go to my ramnapark that year .I left home for Ramana around ten in the morning but I went to Ramana Park that day . Due to the crowd we were in TSC premises of Dhaka University.

When my friend and I came home after wandering around all day, I saw on TV news channels that there was a bomb in the early hours of the morning. Many people died instantly at that spot and were hospitalized .I was absolutely amazed by the news that I don't know so many people died here in the morning, bombs exploded. And if I had gone there early in the morning, maybe I would have had to come back as a corpse. Many public and private political people died that day .

Many have their hands and feet blown off, eyes and body burning . I still feel what that terrible day was.

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I can't forget about this day. Bomb blast at Chayanot's New Year festival in 14 April,2001 at Batmule in Ramna .

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The friend users I would like to invite to this contest are:@raqueluchap77, @quiaratiby, @dasudi and @uzma4882

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