Why are Indians good at catching snakes?

Because Indians have to make a living. That is, Indians catch snakes because Indians have to play flutes and dance with snakes.

Scary snake charmers in India

Snakes play an important role in culture, especially in India. Indians worship snakes as the embodiment of "God", and the cobra is particularly revered and is known as "Nurapambu", the "good snake".

India has a snake temple, snake village, snake dance, snake boat race, there is a snake festival every year. Worshipping the snake god is an ancient Indian religious ritual, and many Hindus will offer eggs and milk as offerings to the snake god on the day of the snake festival. In recent years, the Indian government efforts to develop the tourism industry, full excavation of the country's ancient traditional cultural projects, and the city of Sheralai because of the snake **** dance for hundreds of years, is considered by the Indians as "Snake Festival" origin, so the Indian tourism sector will be listed as one of the key tourist cities.

Annually in August of the Snake Festival, Shiralai citizens regardless of men and women, young and old, all will coincide to the outskirts of the countryside to catch a snake, they will catch the snake centrally placed in an ancient temple "stockpile". After dinner, they will come to the temple, scrambling to catch a snake or a number of snakes with their bare hands, step out of the temple began to enjoy the carnival, and snake **** dance. Almost everyone in their hands are carrying a snake, some people will hold the snake in their arms, and constantly kissed; some people will be wrapped around the snake in the body, strutting in a square step, as if to show off their own boldness; there are many young women even the snake tied between the navel, as a beautiful "belt"; there are also some small children, only wearing shorts, barefooted. Wearing shorts, the naked body hanging upside down eight or nine red and green mottled snakes ...... Although many people will be snake bites and injuries, but they are proud. These people believe that being bitten and entangled by snakes portends a disaster-free and disease-free life in this world.

Snake boat race

In the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, there is a kind of auspicious activities about snakes - snake boat race, like China's Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race. A snake boat is competing in the race with tall coconut trees on the banks of the race site, gongs, drums and trumpets. This is the spectacle of the traditional snake boat race of the Onam festival in the Rammulla, Champakulam and Kottayam districts of the Kerala River. The prow of the racing boat is a vivid snake head with a long red tongue, 60 meters long and 14 meters above the water with its tongue upturned. The Snake Boat Race is considered a major event in each village, and the strongest competitors are selected to participate in the race. The contestants wear white pants and white scarves and hold short paddles, and each boat is decorated with red or yellow umbrellas. Competition, the contestants neatly seated on both sides of the boat, according to the boat singers short high, rhythmic horn paddle. At that moment, hundreds of snake boat competition, splash, horn sound, shouting into a piece. If they win, the whole village celebrates their success.

All India believes that Hinduism accounts for about 83% of the total population, in the eyes of pious Hindus, snake is not poisonous, but the human nature of God. As long as people do not hurt the snake's heart, the snake has no intention of harming people. The appearance of the mighty cobra is the embodiment of the god of wealth, as long as you treat it well, and for its food, life will certainly go lucky. In India, many rural areas have incense-filled snake temple, some have not yet given birth to good men and women, in order to seek a man and a half, the temple enshrined in the snake God is worship.

For thousands of years, India has been active in a group of snake charmers. They walk the streets every day, a few baskets of different sizes, a flute constitutes all their belongings. Most people would rather stay away from snakes, but the Indian snake people see them as friends. Indian snake charmer's ancestors mostly live in the deep forests, forming a natural environment so that they are accustomed to from a young age with venomous snakes as friends. Let the general people shy away from the cobra, python in their command, all bowed to the order. Even if they are accidentally bitten by snakes, they will use herbs to quickly detoxify the poison. The snake-handling industry is also a kind of "eyeball economy", in the modern civilization and the impact of technology, the ancient Indian snake-handling industry has now shown signs of decline.

This centuries-old art and culture became illegal after 1972. The Indian government cracked down on street snake charmers after 1972 in an effort to ban the snake skin trade. The Indian government realized that a thousand-year-old art was about to be lost. In order to protect snake charmers, the government will soon launch a "snake charmer training" program. Snake charmers who have undergone government training will officially become handlers at the National Zoo and will be labeled "reptile experts." The snake charmers will explain wildlife anecdotes and jungle life to children visiting the zoo. In addition, the government will set up a "snake charmer hotline" to help the public catch invasive snakes that suddenly crawl into their homes.

King Cobra

India is home to some of the world's largest, most famous and deadliest snakes. For example, the king cobra, known for its fearsome habits and dangerous venom, and the reticulated python, which can reach a length of more than 10 meters and is the longest snake in the world. Both of these snakes are so rare today that they exist only in a few regions of India and are rarely encountered by humans in the wild. Another 259 species of snakes are found throughout India, of which about 50 are venomous and some are very dangerous. While many are concerned about the deadly dangers of India's snakes, they are themselves one of the highly endangered species in the ecosystem.

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