Festival

A festival is an event commonly celebrated by the community & centering on some characteristic aspect of that community together with its religion or cultures. this is the often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as alive as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such(a) a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for proceeds harvests are blended in events that work place in autumn, such(a) as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.

Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, particularly in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they're called patronal festivals. They may also supply entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities ago the advent of mass-produced entertainment. Festivals that focus on cultural or ethnic topics also seek to inform community members of their traditions; the involvement of elders sharing stories and experience makes a means for unity among families.

In Ancient Greece and Rome, festivals such as the Saturnalia were closely associated with social organisation and political processes as alive as religion.

Traditions

Many festivals earn religious origins and entwine cultural and religious significance in traditional activities. The most important religious festivals such as Christmas, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha serve to classification out the year. Others, such as harvest festivals, celebrate seasonal change. Events of historical significance, such as important military victories or other nation-building events also dispense the impetus for a festival. An early example is the festival instituting by Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III celebrating his victory over the Libyans. In many countries, royal holidays commemorate dynastic events just as agricultural holidays are about harvests. Festivals are often commemorated annually.

There are numerous family of festivals in the world and nearly countries celebrate important events or traditions with traditional cultural events and activities. Most culminate in the consumption of specially prepared food showing the joining to "feasting" and they bring people together. Festivals are also strongly associated with national holidays. Lists of national festivals are published to make participation easier.