Adha is based on the remembrance of the prophet Ibrahim and his son Ismail. God asked Ibrahim to slaughter his son Ismail, but when he went to slaughter him God sent him a sheep as a substitute for Ismail. From This day Moslems celebrate every year by slaughtering a sheep, and distributing its meat to poor people. In addition, to these two feasts there is the Prophet Birth day which is the day that Prophet Mohammed was born. Although, this feast is a religious feast people celebrate it in a very strange way.
Every parent buys a sweet doll to their young girls, and sweet horse for their young boys.
Also there is an important feast in our Islamic religion which is the Islamic New Year. Every Moslem celebrates in these major feast days by doing certain things, and by eating certain kinds of food . Moslems are used to eating certain kinds of food on each of their feast days. Adha they are used to eating meat, especially lambs' meat . In addition, Moslems eat certain kinds of sweets on the Prophet's Birth day.