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The four major traditional ceremonies go all over the world and it is a constant truth that when you enter the country, follow the customs. Indians have 4 major traditional ceremonies, which are birth, funeral, marriage and Puja. In addition, when traveling in India, you must know the 10 special customs and 6 taboos in India, to ensure that you have fun and a safe journey.

Etiquette

Birth rites Traditionally in India, boys are favored over girls, because when a daughter gets married, her parents must prepare a rich dowry, and without it, the daughter can't be married off. Hindus bathe in the holy waters of the Ganges River

Going. The way Indians celebrate the birth and safe growth of a child is to go to a temple to perform the "Puja ceremony," sing prayers, and then have a meal with friends and family.　When a child is born in India, the parents have a fortune teller and the child's name is often taken from a hero or a deity. The child's birth name is especially valued, as it can determine the child's future marriage partner.　Funerals When Hindus die, a cremation ceremony is held at the river altar. When a Hindu dies, the family wraps the body in yellow or white silk cloth and places it on two bamboo stretchers and carries it in a procession to the river altar cremation site.　Traditionally, the task of carrying the deceased to the cremation site would have been performed by the family, but now most people leave it to a specialist. In India, those who specialize in funerals are considered to be untouchables of the lowest caste status.　Burial ceremonies are usually very simple, but wealthier families may have musicians playing in front of them in a grand procession.　Wedding The Indian wedding is a representation of social status and a major ceremony in a lifetime. When young people in India reach marriageable age, they will be replaced by their parents to find a partner of the same social class and language, as well as an astrological match.　The Indian wedding ceremony is quite complicated. Before the marriage, both parents will discuss the dowry through the priests who act as matchmakers, and the woman must agree to the amount of dowry proposed by both men and women before both parties can choose the auspicious date and begin to prepare for the wedding. The day before the wedding, the bride must follow the traditional make-up style, start anointing with oil, bathing, dressing, combing her hair, applying eyeliner and lipstick, applying red color to her feet, dotting her forehead with red tikka, dotting her chin with a black mole, then painting her hands and feet with plant dyes in hanas, then perfuming her hands and feet, putting on perfume, wearing jewelry and hair ornaments, and finally blackening her teeth, chewing betel nut, and wiping off her lipstick, before she is considered to be done with her wedding.　On the wedding day, the groom rode a white horse to the bride's house. By this time, a fire altar has been set up in the woman's house, and friends and relatives from both sides walk around the fire altar to offer prayers amidst the auspicious words recited by the priest. Afterwards, the bride surrounded by female companions to the front of the fire altar, the priest will be the bride's sari and the groom's scarf tied together, on behalf of a long and lasting marriage.　The Indian wedding dinner is held at the bride's home, where the couple sits in the wedding reception to receive the blessings of family and friends. The groom spends the night at the bride's house on the evening of the wedding day, before welcoming the bride home the following day.

Puja

Puja is a Hindu ritual of worship to a deity, which must be performed by a priest. During the ceremony, devotees decorate the idol and carry it out of the temple in a procession to celebrate, and make offerings of flowers, coconuts, tikka powders ...... and so on. At the end of the ceremony, the priest, holding an oil lamp, performs an arati in front of the idol.　"During the arati, the devotee gently covers the lamp in the priest's hand with his hand and then touches it to his own eyes to signify the acceptance of the power given by the deity.　Often after the Puja ceremony, the devotee is given some sacrificial flowers, tikka powder or water, called "Prasada". That's why in India, whenever you see an Indian coming out of a temple to worship, there is almost always a red or white powder on their forehead.

Costumes

In India, one can tell the religious beliefs, race, class, region, etc. of the local people by the different costumes and dresses. Indian Women

Men Wrapped in Turbans: Most Indian men are wrapped in a turban, which is called a Turban.There are various ways of wrapping the turban, including the Sikh male turban, which has a specific style.　According to tradition, Sikhs are required to grow their hair and beard and wear a turban from childhood to adulthood. Children's turbans are simple, made of black cloth tied in the shape of a bun. Adult turban style is more complex, first must use the black elastic band to tie the long hair into a bun, and then a piece of cloth about 3 meters long, wrapped into a turban, the style of the two sides of the opposite into a regular shape. Sikhs have a wide range of colors in their turban, and some even match the color of their clothes.　Most Indian men wear a loose-fitting stand-up shirt (Tunic), with narrow-legged pants (Dhoti), men in Rajasthan, pants are wrapped in a piece of white cloth, the head of the turban, the pattern of the many variations, color.　Women wear sarees: The traditional dress of Indian women is the sari, a piece of fabric 15 yards long or more that is wrapped around the body in a drape. Indian women are good at using techniques such as tying, wrapping, tying, wrapping, wrapping, draping ...... and so on to make different variations of the sari on the body.　Rajasthani women's sarees are shorter and are only draped over the head, but they are colorful and have gold and silver embroidered borders. Rajasthani women's blouse, somewhat like a collarless Chinese phoenix dress, the bottom is a piped floor-length skirt.　Sari: The traditional dress of Indian women is wrapped in a piece of cloth up to 3 meters long, which is called a sari. The Indian sari is worn in many different ways, with different colors, textures, and wrappings for different races, regions, and beliefs. When Indian women wear a sari, the top is a short-sleeved, belly-button revealing corset (Choli), and the bottom is a floor-length straight petticoat (Ghagra).　The basic way of wearing a sari can be divided into the following steps: 1. First, pull the left end of the sari fabric and tuck it into the right petticoat skirt. 2.　2. Wrap the sari around the lower circumference from right to left, about three or four times. 3.　3. Fold the sari fabric into four folds on the right front and tuck it into the petticoat head. 4.　4) Take the remaining pieces of fabric and drape them around the right armpit from the back of the left side to the left shoulder. 5) Finally, place the sari fabric directly onto the left shoulder.　5. Finally, drape the sari directly over your shoulders or head.

Religion

After the 6th century B.C., India entered the period of the Sixteen Great Powers, with frequent civil wars and the emergence of sastric thinking against the dominance of Brahminism, and the rise of Buddhism and Jainism. The internal strife also invited external invasions, with Persia and the Greeks attacking India one after another. In 323 B.C. the Peacock Dynasty unified North India and the great Emperor Ashoka converted to Buddhism and promoted it vigorously. The Peacock Dynasty fell in 185 B.C. and India entered the age of the Great Powers. It was not until the 4th century A.D. that the first united feudal dynasty of ancient India, the Shudras, emerged and brought two centuries of peace and prosperity. During the Shudra period, Hinduism, which evolved from ancient Brahmanism, emerged and gradually became dominant. It was also during this period that ancient Indian culture reached its peak.　From the 8th century A.D. onwards, the Arabs, who believed in Islam, continued to invade the South Asian subcontinent, and at the same time introduced Islam into the region, adding a new color to Indian civilization. Islam and Hinduism became the two major religions of ancient India, while Buddhism and Jainism declined. 1526, the Mongol-Turkish nobles who believed in Islam established the Mughal Empire.　Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, the British colonizers gradually took control of the South Asian subcontinent, which became the most important raw material supplying area for the British Empire. from the end of the 19th century onwards, the people of India carried out an unyielding independence movement, in which the non-cooperation movement headed by Gandhi made a significant contribution to winning the support of the masses to the cause of nationalism. 1947 was the year when India finally became independent. After two Indo-Pakistani wars, the South Asian subcontinent was formed into the present three countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.　India and Pakistan have had an ongoing dispute over Kashmir, but bilateral talks and the building of mutual trust since 2002 are reducing tensions in the region. India's current economic success is remarkable, but it also faces a number of challenges, such as severe overpopulation, environmental degradation, large numbers of poor people, and ethnic and religious conflict in the country. India's economy has expanded dramatically over the past decade.　In India today (2001 census data), 80.5% of the population is Hindu, 13.4% Muslim, 2.3% Christian, 1.9% Sikh, 1.8% other, and 0.1% unknown.