Introducing the folk customs of Egypt during the time of Ramses II.

Customs

Every Friday is the "Lord's Day Gathering", when the mellifluous sound of the call for salute is heard in the mosque, the Islamists flocked to the nearby mosque to do collective worship. A large number of believers still devoutly observe the five daily worship services: the morning service, the ringing service, the feeding service, the evening service and the night service. On religious holidays, television also shows footage of presidents and heads of government going to mosques.

Egyptians like to eat sweets, formal banquets or rich family meal is the last dish on the sweets. Famous sweets are "kunafa" and "Qatayf". "Mallow soup" and "Kisum" are the best foods in the Egyptian daily life. "Gemeldin is a must for the Egyptians during the month of Ramadan. "Fava beans are an essential food. There are many different ways of making them, and the food they produce is also very different. For example, cut broad beans, fried broad bean cakes, stewed broad beans, dry fried broad beans and raw green broad beans.

Every Egyptian adult man to the age of marriage, the first to the father of the intended bride or in the maternal relatives and neighbors to choose a spouse. After the proposal is made, the man and the woman begin to discuss the amount of the woman's dowry, usually 2/3 of the dowry being given to the woman by the man as a bride price. Then, under the auspices of the village chief, the marriage contract is concluded. Weddings in the Egyptian countryside are a lively and extravagant affair. Before welcoming the bridegroom, the man hosted a feast, accompanied by songs and dances, sometimes for several days. Welcome, the groom's mother led a number of beautifully decorated carriage to the bride's home to receive the bride, the bride to sit in one of the expensive Kashmir silk, roses and other decorative floats. After dinner, the groom will be led by a band to the mosque to perform prostrations, and finally return to the new room, and the bride *** drink a cup of spring water, to show that they share the sweet happiness. Such a wedding lasts about 30 days and costs about a thousand Egyptian pounds. In the oasis of Siwa in the western desert of Egypt, there are unique wedding customs. The girl is betrothed at the age of 8 and the marriage is consummated at the age of 14. In the meantime, the young man should constantly present gifts to the girl's family. The bride's head to be knotted many hair braids. Half of it is braided by the mother's family and the other half is done by the in-laws. The dowry of a girl is 100 robes and skirts. So, as soon as a daughter is born in a Siva family, the mother has to start busy stitching the dowry gowns for her.

In the southeastern part of the city of Cairo, there is a centuries-old cemetery. It was originally a place where graduates of Al-Azhar University and prominent figures were buried. Later, it gradually became a public ****ing cemetery for the surrounding area. People come here to build a place for themselves to live and die, and so neatly arranged bungalows have been built in a "city of the dead". Whenever a major Islamic festival, friends and relatives of the deceased come here to gather, remembering the dead, the formation of Egypt's own unique funeral customs.

The needle is a sewing tool, almost a household necessity for daily necessities, but in the minds of Egyptians have a few mysterious colors. Every day 3-5 pm, Egyptians never buy and sell needles, which has become an unwritten precept in their lives. According to legend, every day at this time, the sky god down to give people some of the necessities of life, but the god of the sky to personally observe the situation of people. The richer the person is, the more he receives; the poorer the person is, the less he receives. The poor people always threaded the needle and sewed all day long, so in order to make the poor people get more rewards and avoid being embarrassed for the rest of their lives, people would never sell their needles at this time of the year. Under the influence of this myth and legend, some people in Egypt do not even dare to do needlework at night, otherwise it is thought that it will bring disaster to their mothers. Some women in the countryside to borrow the needle is also regarded as a taboo, in the must borrow, the lender to insert the needle in the bread to the borrower, the borrower does not dare face to face with the hand to take out the needle. Needle sometimes also become some women to each other's verbal abuse, if a woman was called a needle, then she will be as a great shame, pain. Today, the needle still has its unique and legendary status in the minds of Egyptians, and the taboo on needles has been inherited.

Special etiquette

Egyptian etiquette of interaction with both the traditional customs of the nation, but also the practice of Westerners, both, the upper class more inclined to European and American etiquette. Egyptians meet with unusual enthusiasm. In general, see the less familiar people, the first to greet the person who said the world's Muslim greetings - "Ansai two eyes? Erlaikum" (directly translated as "peace be upon you", meaning "hello"). Our Muslims call it "Selam" for short. If it is an old friend, especially after a long time, then embrace the face salute, that is, with the right hand to hold each other's left shoulder, the left arm around each other's waist, first left and then right, each stick once or more. And will also send a string of greetings like a series of artillery: "How are you?" "How are you?" "How have you been?" "How is your body?" And so on.

If you visit a friend at home, the host will repeat one or more times: "Ai Hiran Use Hiran Umair Hapan" (meaning "You meet a loved one, you walk the plains, you are welcome"). Sometimes it is also said simply: "Love Hiran! Ehran!" Females are more likely to use the gentle face-to-face salute as a courtesy or sign of affection, usually once on the right, then once on the left. The opposite sex usually shake hands, and only relatives perform the face-to-face salute. Men and women can not shake hands, men should not take the initiative to reach out, shaking hands should not cross, that is, four people were "cross" shape face to face. Men must get up from their seats when shaking hands, but women do not have to, you can continue to sit on the chair.

Egyptians are not afraid of foreigners visiting their homes, and even welcome their visits and take pride in them. But visits from the opposite sex are forbidden, even among Egyptians, male and female classmates and coworkers are not allowed to visit each other's homes. Except for poor families, Egyptians have living rooms in their homes, and bedrooms as private rooms are not welcome to outsiders. Home visits should take the initiative to greet the elderly and talk with them, the Egyptians are happy to talk about all sorts of things, generally should be in the end of a topic of conversation after the farewell. The host says to the guest, "Mai'a? Salamah" (directly translated as "peace be with you", meaning "safe journey" or "goodbye"). It is not appropriate for the guest to repeat this, but he can still say: "Ansar al-Salam" (peace be upon you). The guest should not repeat this, but can still say: "Ansar al-Amr?

Egyptians (Muslims are so) that "the right is better than the left", the right is auspicious, do things from the right hand and the right foot to start, shaking hands, eating, handing things must be used with the right hand, wearing clothes first right sleeve, wearing shoes first wear the right foot, the first into the home and the mosque to step right foot. The reason for this is that Mujrim use their left hand for "convenience" and to do their dirty work, so their left hand is considered unclean, and it is extremely impolite to shake hands with others or pass things with their left hand, and it is even regarded as insulting.

Taboos for women. According to Islam, a woman's "attractive parts" are not to be seen by anyone other than her husband. Even people of the same sex should not look at each other's private parts, and therefore short, thin, transparent and revealing clothing is forbidden. Even a baby's body should not be uncovered, and public **** baths were not seen in the streets. Although Egyptians are tolerant of foreigners and are not as strict as in some Islamic countries, a word of caution must be given; wearing tank tops, shorts and ultra-short skirts in Egypt is strictly forbidden in mosques.

Generally, try not to yawn or sneeze in front of Egyptians; if you really can't help it, turn your face to cover your mouth and say "sorry". Egyptians hate yawning, that yawning is the devil in worship. A person who yawns, as if he has committed a crime, hastens to say, "Please forgive Allah." And sneezing is not considered necessarily bad; a person who sneezes in front of a crowd says, "I testify that all is not the Lord but Allah." And the person next to him says, "Allah have mercy on you." He then says, "Allah forgive me and everyone else."

Ancient Egyptian civilization

Ancient Egyptian civilization refers to the history of the Tassa culture in the area of the First Falls of the Nile to the delta, with a time break of 5000 AD to the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641 AD. Experts actually explore the timeframe of ancient Egyptian culture, from the first union of the northern and southern kingdoms of Egypt in 4245 B.C. to the occupation of Egypt by Alexander of Macedonia in 332 A.D., and the fall of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which is commonly referred to as the Pharaohs, which lasted for more than 3,000 years.

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