It was Eid Mubarak on Tuesday, August 30, 2011.
For those who don’t know what is Eid Mubarak, I’ll tell you a bit.
Eid Mubarak or Idul Fitri is a Muslim holiday (which is my religion) as a sign of the end of Ramadhan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Muslim celebrate it after twenty-nine or thirty days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadhan. Eid Mubarak is marked according to the Islamic calendar, which is based on the lunar phases of the moon. In the morning of Eid Mubarak, Muslims offer the Eid Pray at the Mosques or in open fields.
Eid Mubarak, besides mean a brand new day and brand new heart, is also mean new clothes, cannon festival, family gathering, a bunch of yummy and sweet foods, and fireworks, for me. :p
I played some fireworks with my sister in the last night of Ramadhan, Monday night. Our local city night was full of huge fireworks and citizens were get outside their houses and watching it until midnite. I stayed at home cz, you have no idea, how crowded the traffic was.
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this is our fireworks. I didn’t get a chance to picture those huge fireworks in the sky ): |
did I mention ‘cannon festival’? yes.
That’s my local city’s tradition. Cannon Festival is so many cannons detonated towards the river. So it’s like a war. It’s gonna be like.. BOOOOM here and BOOOOM there. There is a story behind it. My grandpa told me, Cannon Festival began a hundred years ago. That’s our ancestor’s tradition to scared ghosts and such bad spirits. We still keep this tradition anyway. Because all these citizens think that this is fun and this Cannon Festival is so rare.
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| don’t stand too close with the cannon or your ears get hurt! |
So, what’s your local city’s tradition in Eid Mubarak? ;)
