What is Festival?

Festival is an event celebrated by community or a country to show their tradition, culture , and heritage significant of that day.

Example: Diwali, Eid, Republic day 

Types of Festival:

Types of festival
  • Religious Festivals
  • National Festivals
  • Arts Festivals
  • Seasonal and harvest Festivals
 

1) Religious Festivals :

Religion Festival are celebrated by the people of same religion group. most of the time, celebrations to honor God or gods.
Examples:

Hindusim

Muslim

Christnity

Sikhism

Diwali

Eid ul Fitr

Christmas

Gurpurab

Holi

Eid ul aadha

 

Navratri

 

2) National Festival:

 

National Festival are celebrated by the whole county irrespect of their religion, caste, sex, race.

Examples: Independence Day, Republic Day and Gandhi Jyanti.

3) Arts Festivals:

Arts Festivals are also most specificc types of festival, which showcase intellectual or creative achievement in different fields 
Example: Science Festival, Music Festival, International Film Festival.

3) Seasonal and harvest festivals:

Seasonal Festivals are mostly determined by solar and lunar calendars and by the cycle of the seasons, like harvesting season or spring season starts.

Example: Bihu, Pongal, lohri, 

Why are these festivals so important? 

the essence of the festival they make us aware of the goodness around us they make us aware that you know what every single day we must aspire to become better we need to take the good out of it and stop blaming religion at any point for the flaws in us. these festivals also teach us how to live together. learn  to tolerate each other, learn how not to judge each other.

festivals are actually you’re to allow us to come and do peace with ourselves to come in to acceptance of the other human being to come into a place where we should actually start focusing more on giving to the society.

Why do we celebrate Festival?

It is human nature to love to celebration. Festivals teach us values and bring humans together they bind us with each other. Each celebration has its history valid reasons and an interesting story every country in the world has its unique geography and history in this world not a single stone  is similar to one another, and nature itself is diverse.

This universe is full of various cultures traditions even in one country people mostly fight among themselves for one or another reason so what makes them come together it it’s their culture and civilization. Festival is part of culture and civilization because it helps us remember the values of the great people to whom it is related.

For Example: the christmas festival reminds us of the values and  principles taught by jesus christ ,buddha jayanti teaches us universal brotherhood lord buddha has taught the world how one  can alleviate sorrows; Mahavir Jain taught the world to live and let live; each religion taught humanity to love brotherhood and peace.

Festivals celebrated also has social and economic reasons: 

  • festivals bring freshness to life
  • they remove boredom.
  • They are the catalyst for national unity and integration. 
  • In addition, they help us remember our cultural values 
  • Festival are beneficial to the unity and integration of a nation.
  •  Many people find work as a result of their celebration, which also helps the economy grow.
  • in view of their festival the country’s economy additionally creates.

 we celebrate festivals we become physically more active and this increases our metabolism and regulates blood circulations and this is good for our fitness, one of the most important scientific reasons behind celebrating festivals is showing gratitude towards nature and protecting the planet from global warming in the third world war because the world has become like a family.