The main Muslim festivals are Eid-ul-fitr and Eid-ul-azha. Muharram, Shabe-barat, Shabe-kador are also most popular. From time to time folk culture has unfair these festivals, as a result of which the original religious practices have changed.
Eid-ul-Fitr is observed after the end of the month of Ramadan. The social meaning of Eid is a joyful festival, while its etymological meaning demotes returning lime and again. Like all other social festivals, Eid returns every year it times on Hejri. It is the case with Eid-ul-Azha. The celebration of those two festivals in the early time was biased by the folk belief of the peasants. One of the main features of the Eid festival is the reimbursement of special food and drink. The food would include korma, pilau and various types of homemade pitha, semai and jarda. One of the main features of Eid in the nineteenth century Dhaka was the Eid procession.
The Bengali Muslims do not have community songs and dances. A festival is a community participatory outdoor event. The jamaat (of Eid namaaz) is an outdoor and participatory do exercises, but truncates the society by prohibiting women from participating with the males, and secondly, it is wholly religious prayer, at best could be the 'bismillah' ceremony of the festival. But then you have no more outdoor participatory party’s where the whole society, male and females, could take pleasure in themselves in togetherness.
The main characteristic of Eid-ul-Azha is the sacrifice of animals, especially cows and oxen. Many people in the villages sacrifice domestically raise cows or goats. The majority of the professional in towns sacrifice cows on a share basis. Eid for the common people means meeting family members and friends, buying new clothes and preparing delicious food on the Eid day. So Eids, for various reasons, falls short of a national festival. It is at best a religious festival of the Muslim community.
