CULTURAL CONTEST- @krishna94- Sri Lanka

Hi Friends,

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I’m going to write about my culture. Actually I’m one of individual who live in Sri Lanka and I’m Sinhala Buddhist citizen. So I like to describe what is my culture around. My country is rich with artistic tradition, with distinct creative forms that encompass music, dance, and the visual arts. The population of Sri Lanka is predominantly Sinhalese with sizable Sri Lankan Moor, Sri Lankan Tamil, Indian Tamil, Sri Lankan Malay and Burgher minorities. They all types of religions have different cultures. As the author of this article, I would like to describe about my culture but personally I’m respect for all others because my mother is Catholic and Father is Buddhist so I love Jesus and Buddha both.

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Culture and Religion.

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Buddhism is at the heart of our cultural holidays , by learning of the great Sinhalese Kings who brought Buddhism here, or visiting a contemporary temple or monastery and just meeting local people, with over 90 per cent of Sri Lankans being Buddhist. The four leaves on their flag even represent those of the sacred Bo tree, and the four pillars of Buddhism, which has been gives the meaning as Kindness, Friendliness, Equanimity and Happiness. Our culture have given special place to the religion. The best simple example can be mention is Secret tooth relic temple as in below image.

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Culture and Heritage.

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Sri Lanka is home to some of the world’s most renowned ancient cities which are full of archeological monuments like Sigiriya, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kandy, and Dambulla among others. Sigiriya is the 8th World wonder and it is a world heritage. These cities are renowned for Buddhist cultural and architectural significant achievements across Asia and Europe with giant stupas, intricate moonstones, beautiful parks, and imposing statues all scattered over a wide area of woodland.

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Music and Dancing.

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Traditional Sri Lankan music includes the Kandyan drums and the drumming was and is very much a part of music in both Buddhist and Hindu temples. Most western parts of Sri Lanka follow western dancing and music also. With some of invasions in ancient period, there were kaffrinha and baila styles also. I personally like Cultural Devil dancing, kandyan dancing and music. You can see there were different types of cultural dance styles in this video. Kandyan Perahera shows and take special place linking with our culture.

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Culture and Foods.

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Our main food is Rice and Curry. Mostly we are with vegetable, green leaves, fruits, milk, eggs, meat and fish. In addition to thay we are using different kinds of oil and beverages, and spices. The components like carbohydrate, fat, protein, water, vitamin and fibre which need to be included in a balanced diet according to nutrition experts are more or less contained in our traditional meals and our ancestors possessed the knowledge of different methods of food processing and ways and means of natural preservations also. We are cooking Milk rice occasionally on special events like New year and some kinds of sweets too.

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Main meal with Rice and Curry.

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Foods with Carbohydrates.

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Sweets on New Year table.

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Culture and Architecture.

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Our Culture and Architecture displays a rich variety of architectural forms and styles and Buddhism has had a significant influence on Sri Lankan architecture ancient period, since it was introduced to the island in the 3rd Century BCE. There were many Archeological and historical places that can be see now- a-days also. But in present we are with simples constructions to live and busy with westernizations.

Ancient Architecture in Polonnaruwa Period.

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Present Architectures.

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Arts and crafts.

The paintings were the most popular method used to decorate walls of the shrines, palaces and other important constructions. This traditional Sri Lankan art, which are dated back thousands of years can still be found. We have a proud heritage of cultural arts and crafts and you’ll find a distinctive memento to take home among the wide range of items for sale in Colombo. Popular handicrafts include gold and silver jewellery set with gems, wooden masks, intricate lace-work, lacquerwork and ceramics. The few of most famous are Sculpting, Mask making, Handloom, Batik industry, Jewelry Making and Pottery.

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Culture and Festivals.

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Our festivities don’t only showcase the culture and religions of the country, but also its intriguing history and beautiful traditions also. So our main festivals are New year and Vesak festivals. New year festival is linking with Sinhala customs and traditions. So we celebrate and love that festival. We enjoy so much with different cultural games and so on. Below is some images we took while we are celebrating new year.

Vesak festival is for Buddhist people that we are celebrating Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment and Pass away. On that day we are worship and going to temple, observe sill, participate for the arms giving and decorate house with bulbs, oil lamps and Vesak lanterns.

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Hope You all will enjoy my article with information I had provide about my culture.
I would like to tag @belenguerra , @writingnreviews & @fendit for this article.

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Thank you..