How food shows the kind of celebration going on

It is not new that in most celebration, there must be food to be share among the people that came for the celebration, either wedding, naming ceremony, burial or remembrance. In my country, food plays a very important role in any celebration, a celebration that were food is not share, such celebration isn't mostly honoured. I will be taking my country as a case study for this write up.

In my country (Nigeria), almost all achievement is celebrated, from house warming, to naming ceremony of a new baby, wedding, burial, graduation and so on, mention it and I will tell you it can be celebrated.

1.Wedding ceremony

Wedding is a great celebration in my country, when celebrating a wedding, there are three stages to pass through, firstly the traditional stage, the Christian or islamic wedding stage and the court stage. In all this stage, there must be food to be prepare.

When you see this kind of food in a celebration, swallow and rice, you would know it must be a wedding, but the kind of swallow food is there, it either semo, pounded yam, or amala. All this swallow food is what is mostly prepared in wedding.

Swallow food: This is a kind of food that is mostly eaten with the bare hands in my culture with soup, different kinds of soup, you mold this swallow food substance with your hand, touch the soup and swallow it.

2.Burial or remembrance celebration

For burial celebration, especially if its an elderly person burial, the food prepared is like that of a wedding, but when it is remembrance, the food prepare is "Akara". When you see Akara being shared, you would know the remembrance of a person that has passed away is being done. You can use the Akara with bread, garri, or pap.

3. Naming ceremony of a baby.

Like I said, we celebrate almost every thing, for a child naming ceremony, if the child is the first child, the ceremony is done in a enormous way, there would be a lot of food, just like that of the wedding and burial. When you attend a naming ceremony and beans is shared as food, then you would know that the person celebrating his or her child naming day, the person has given birth to twin. It is composary in my culture to prepare beans as food to celebrate the birth of a twins child.

In my culture(yoruba) after the birth of a child, you name the child after seven days of the child on earth, it is the tradition of the people to name their child after 7days of his or her birth.

With this, you would understand that, food actually determine the kind of celebration that is going on, and also when you want to celebrate a thing, you should know there are some things to consider before you chose the kind of food to be prepared for that celebration

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