Libyan traditional music

Masai is a nomadic people in East Africa and one of the existing distinctive ethnic minorities in East Africa. At present, there are 584,000 Masai people in Kenya, accounting for about 2% of Kenya's total population, mainly living in the Rift Valley near the Tanzanian border.

Marseille men are tall and handsome, slightly arrogant. They were once called "noble barbarians" by western colonists. The traditional Masai people live a nomadic life, mainly eating beef and mutton, milk and blood, and live in areas where lions, elephants, bison, leopards and other wild animals haunt. The existence of * * * for many years has formed a tacit understanding between Masai people and wild animals, and they usually do not interfere with each other.

Most Masai people live in arid grasslands with sandy shrubs. Because of their traditional habits and conditions, they are mainly engaged in grazing and raising longhorn cattle and sheep, as well as raising a small number of camels and donkeys. They live a nomadic life, maintain many traditions and Nile culture, and maintain the traditional belief of animism, especially advocating pasture and cattle. They seldom eat food, and live by eating beef and mutton and drinking milk from cattle and sheep. There is also the custom of drinking fresh cow blood. Maasai people regard raw blood and fresh milk as delicious drinks, cow blood as traditional breakfast, and boiled milk of cattle and sheep as medicine only for sick people.

In nomadic life and hard environment, Masai people also pay attention to hygiene. When guests come, they sometimes rub their hands with sand and pat them again. When serving meals, they wash their hands with dry or wet cow dung. Some saw Masai people run to the cowshed and grab a handful of steaming cow dung, rubbing it up and down repeatedly with their hands, patting it and shaking it again, even if it was washed. Why do Maasai wash their hands with cow dung? It is said that living in the desert grassland with sandy soil everywhere, shrubs are left to fend for themselves, and they are located in drought, expecting natural sighs and begging for water; It is because the Masai people think that cows are sacred animals given to them by the gods, and everything on them is the cleanest. So it is not surprising to wash your hands with cow dung in the absence of water. If foreigners encounter this situation among Maasai people, they need not be surprised, let alone feel sick. But do as the Romans do. It is said that some foreigners go to this area to investigate and study. Under the hospitality of Masai people, in order to get first-hand information, some people really "put down their airs" and went deep into ethnic areas to do as the Romans do, drink milk from cattle and sheep and eat beef and mutton together.