Information about exotic customs

Australians have both hearty westerners and reserved orientals. They have a wide range of interests and like sports, such as surfing, windsurfing, horse racing, fishing, horse betting, bocce, Australian rugby and swimming. In Sydney, if you can't swim, you will be laughed at. In Darwin, a commercial port, swimming usually takes place at night because of the high temperature during the day. The citizens of this city especially like to drink beer. It is said that the sales volume of beer is second only to Munich, the Federal Republic of Germany.

Indigenous people living in some tribal areas in Australia still protect their customs. They hunt for a living, and boomerang is their unique hunting weapon. Most of them still live in shacks made of branches and mud, surrounded by a piece of cloth or kangaroo skin, and they like tattoos or painting various colors.

Usually, only the cheeks, shoulders and chest are painted with yellow and white, red in the war, white after death, and painted all over the body during festivals or festivals. Tattoos are mostly thick lines, some like raindrops and some like ripples. For the indigenous people who have passed the rite of passage, tattoos are not only for decoration, but also for attracting the love of the opposite sex. At the carnival dance, people wore colorful decorations and painted colorful patterns, and danced in groups around the bonfire. Dance is simple, reflecting hunting life, etc.

Indigenous tribes practice primitive distribution system, and totem worship prevails. Indigenous men must go through a series of rigorous exercises and tests after entering adulthood, and receive education in tribal traditions and ethics. Australia has a special kind of funeral. Once someone dies, family members will get together, and special people in the family will cut down some wooden stakes, color them and put them around the grave. Each pillar symbolizes the dead or alive in the family. The corpse hangs high, even if it has begun to rot, it will not be taken down for burial until the next full moon.

Finally, the family members of the deceased will hold a purification ceremony, that is, after the funeral, the family members will not go home until it rains. For this reason, family members sometimes have to sleep out for days or even weeks, because according to local customs, only rain can play the necessary purification role.