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Dhaka Culture

People in Dhaka enjoy hosting friends and family, expect to be hosted when visiting others, and have distinctive food preferences including tea and biscuits for breakfast and biryani. Gold is highly valued for weddings. Women wear saris or shalwar kameez and men traditionally wear lungis and panjabis. Wedding rituals include formal engagement, giving paan and chini to guests, the bride receiving turmeric paste from the groom's family, the wedding ceremony itself, and a reception the next day for the bride at her new home. Anniversaries are held for deceased loved ones as well.

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Dhaka Culture

People in Dhaka enjoy hosting friends and family, expect to be hosted when visiting others, and have distinctive food preferences including tea and biscuits for breakfast and biryani. Gold is highly valued for weddings. Women wear saris or shalwar kameez and men traditionally wear lungis and panjabis. Wedding rituals include formal engagement, giving paan and chini to guests, the bride receiving turmeric paste from the groom's family, the wedding ceremony itself, and a reception the next day for the bride at her new home. Anniversaries are held for deceased loved ones as well.

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Hospitality:

People of Dhaka always search for any excuse to invite their relatives and friends at
home and treat them with various types of foods. They also expect to be served when
they visit anyone’s home.

Food habit:

People of Dhaka like to take a cup of tea with a special type of biscuit which is known as
Bakorkhani at the time of breakfast. Biriyani is one of the favorite foods of the people of
Dhaka. Different types of Kabab and chicken dish are very famous among the people of
Dhaka. They also make different types of cake which is known as Pitha.

Gold Addiction:

People of Dhaka are fond of gold. At the time of wedding, it is always counted how
much gold a bride gets from her parents and also from her-in-laws.

Cloth:

Women wear sarees or shalwar kameez. Some cover their heads and some cover their
faces. Some wear all black and some wear all color. The traditional dress for men is a
lungi and Panjabi, but young people like to wear shirt and pant.

Wedding:

At the time of wedding, people of Dhaka follow some rituals such as Paka-dekha, Paan-
Chini, Gaye holud, Wedding ceremony, Bou Bhaat.

The official engagement must follow from formal consent given by the family elders
from both sides. Through a ceremony called paka-dekha or dekha-dekhi, the alliance is
formalised so final wedding preparations can proceed in due course with confidence that
it is indeed intentional and assured to take place.

Paan chini, chini paan or sinifaan is a tradition to give two betel leaves and areca nuts to
the guests at any auspicious occasion. Thus the name was derived from the servings.
'Paan' (betel leaf) being served with silver foil signals festivity and during such propitious
occasions it is also common to bring sweets. These gestures friendship and a heartening
promise.

This ritual is followed by turmeric ceremonies taken place before the wedding ceremony.
There is one turmeric ceremony for the bride and another for the groom. For the bride's
give holud, the groom's family - except the groom himself - travel in procession to the
bride's home. They carry with them the bride's wedding dress/outfit, some wedding
decorations including turmeric paste, candy/sweetmeats and gifts. They also take a large
Rohu fish decorated as a bride.

The wedding ceremony is arranged by the bride's family. The groom, along with his
friends and family (Borjatri), traditionally arrive later in the evening. At the wedding,
there is a tradition to give money (as blessing) to bride and groom. There is also another
tradition to receive bride with some rice paddy, grass, milk and lamp.

The second day of the bride at her new home is celebrated as Bou Bhaat as on this day.
The day is celebrated as a reception party, where all the distant relatives along with the
close ones from the groom's side are invited and introduced to the bride. The bride's
family members 'Konyajatri' also attend the reception with 'tatwo' (gifts of clothes,
sweetmeats, jewellery, and all other essentials for the bride and her in-laws).

Dead Anniversary:

People of Dhaka arrange dead anniversary for their beloved family member who are not
alive. When anyone die in any house, there is a tradition to provide foods to the family
member of the died person by his/her relatives for four days. There is another tradition to
arrange a ceremony seeking blessing for that died person after forty days .

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