BP # 6 - Freewriting - Parmita Roy

Topic: What Spring Time Rituals, Holidays or Festivals do you have in your home culture?

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When spring comes, naturally lots of change with our mind. Every year in spring in Bangladesh we were celebrate April 14 is Bangali New Year. Bangali New Year called in Bangali “Pohela Boishak”. Pohela Boishak(spring) is the first day of the calendar.

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Pohela Boishak is an important day in the bangali people. This day is really excitement day. Usually on Pohela Boishak , The home is really scrubbed and cleaned, people bath early in the morning and dress in new and bright cloths. Bright cloths means the Bengali people it colors white and red. We spend much of the day visiting relatives, friends, neighbors and going to fair.

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The most colorful celebration of the Bengali New Year begins at the Ramna Batamul at dawn with an elaborate programmed undertaken by Chhayanaut Artists From Chhayanaut  will welcome the day Robindranath Tagore’s famous song under the banyan tree at the Ramna Park. We are really enjoy the holidays.

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Outline the Essay:

INTRODUCTION:

General Statements: Festivals are common to all societies and cultures. With the change of social and nature of festivals.

Thesis Statements: In the Bangladesh, I had been celebrate Bangali New Year with my family and friends. When I enjoyed that holiday, I thought life is so beautiful.

BODY ( STORY ) + REFLECTION :

Paragraph # 1 : How Pohela Boishak was come? When it came?

Reflection: After the long time how we felt that day………………..

Paragraph # 2 : What we ate that day, What we wore, What is the religion rituals?

Reflection: I learned from the holiday a lot of thing…………………

CONCLUSION:

Summary : I learned a lot of from when we enjoyed the holiday together.

Final Thought : I am really thankful to God because we got a big holiday and happy moment in the life.

v  # 5 Topic of essay= What spring time rituals, holidays, or festivals do you have in your home culture?

Festivals are common to all societies and cultures. With the change of social and economic structures, the nature of festivals also changes. But some festivals are so deeply rooted in the social organism that they continue to entertain generation to generation. Some of the festivals bear the mark of the community and nationality; some have the stamp of religion. The festivals which got started in the primitive society centering on the prayer for food, have now been filled with various colors and varieties. In the Bangladesh especially in the spring time I had been celebrate Bengali New Year and some religion rituals with my family and friends. When I celebrated the Bengali New Year with my family I thought God gift me a good family for celebrate the any holidays or rituals.

Like the history of Bengal, the celebration of Pohela Boisakh 'also has a long history. The references to New Year celebrations can be found at the time of Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar. The schedule was designed by the astrologer at the court of Akbar, Aamir Fatehullah Siraji, was named San Fasli. Thus, a new calendar that both the existing lunar calendar Bengali calendar combined solar ushered in the new agricultural year in March, 1584. He later became popular as Bônggabdo. Thus, especially for the timing of Bengal was introduced Pohela Boishakh.  According to the policy of Akbar all the rights that were established during the last day of Choitro and so the next day was marked as the first day of Bengali New Year or 'Boisakh Pohela. In the Bengali language 'Pohela "refers to the first and' Boisakh 'becomes the first month of Bengali calendar, so first Boisakh day is celebrated as the Bengali New Year's Day. The day continued to be celebrated in East Pakistan as a symbol of Bengali culture. After 1972 it became a national festival.

After the East Pakistan and West Pakistan argument East Pakistan mean Bangladesh achieved their favorite festivals Pohela Boishak or Noboborsho or Bengali New Year. It is a symbol of the Bangladesh nationalist movement and an integral part of the people’s culture heritage. I learned from the history how struggle do I need to alive my own culture and rituals.

The Bengali calendar is closely connected with the Vedic Hindu solar calendar based on the Surya Siddhanta. This day every hindu family or mainly the business community celebrate the Bengali New Year in different ways. Traders and shopkeepers open ‘Kalkhata’ new books of account. The businessmen complete their accounts of the previous year on the eve of the New Year’s Day. On this day, the customers pay some advance and the businessmen treat them with sweetmeats. There are some who prepare better quality food, including sweetmeats of the New Year’s Day. This day men wearing Panjabi – Pajama, women wearing white sari with red borders and children in colorful dresses. And then people ate ‘Panta Bhat’ mean watered rice with fried hilsha fish, lentils, green chili and onions at home. Restaurants and fairs following the rich tradition of Bengali culture. The biggest function on the first day of Boishak is the holding of fair.

On this day my family made some sweet and watered rice with fried hilsha fish. We are all together ate all traditional food. I was really enjoyed the Pohela Boishak with my family. Also my friends and I are gone to the fair. Fairs are arranged in many parts of the country. Various agricultural products, traditional handicrafts, toys, cosmetic and various kinds of food and sweets are sold at these fair. We were also gone some functions. You know Pohela Boishak is not only celebrated in Bangladesh but also in West Bengal of India, Nepal.

People in different religious are celebrating Bengali New Year in their own way. There are some people celebrating Pohela Boishak as religion festivals and some people celebrate Pohela Boishak as spring festivals. People from all communities would join the Pohela Boishak festival at one time in Bengal. The meaning of Pohela Boishak it’s not just a holiday, it is a day of beginner of life. I really learned a lot thing in my cultures or festivals. When I had been celebrate Pohela Boishak with my family and friends I felt really happy and I thought God gave me a slide of Haven.

Happy Bengali New Year.

My all Friend.