Indian customs and taboos

I. Customs:

1. Traditionally in India there is a strong preference for sons over daughters, because when a daughter marries, the parents must prepare a rich dowry, and if there is no dowry, the daughter will not be able to get married. The Indian way to celebrate the birth and safe growth of a child is to go to the temple for the "Puja ceremony", singing prayers, and then hold a meal with friends and family.

After a child is born in India, parents have their names read out to them, and most children are named after heroes or gods. The child's birth date is especially valued, as it can determine the child's future marriage partner.

2. Funerals

When Hindus die, they are cremated 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.

Two, taboos

1, most of the Indians believe in Hinduism, the middle and upper class people eat a lot of vegetarians, the more the status of the people less grass-fed (also eat eggs, butter, milk, Hindus in the carnivorous ban on eating beef fish. But Hindus avoid taking food in the same food plate, Islam into the restaurant meals, should be in accordance with the recipe food pork, beef, India has many vegetarian restaurants and brigades supply meat.

2, according to the traditional concept, 10 to 50 years of age, women are not allowed to enter the temple Hajj, because this age group of women have menstruation, will "defile" the temple, this traditional taboo in 1991, supported by the Kerala High Court.

Expanded:

Primitive India:

Some fragmentary early finds in the Narmada valley A few scattered early human fossils (later named Narmada Man) found in the Narmada Valley region indicate that India was inhabited at least during the Middle Paleolithic. The generic classification of the Narmada people is undetermined (Homo erectus or Homo sapiens); dates for their existence range from 200,000 to 500,000 years ago. The Late Paleolithic began about 40,000 years ago and ended 15,000 years ago.

The Mesolithic corresponds to the geological Holocene. Mesolithic cultures are widely distributed throughout the subcontinent and in Sri Lanka; the earliest Mesolithic sites have been found in Sri Lanka, and the most northerly sites are found in the Hindu Kush Mountains, where the cultures appear to be a direct development of the Paleolithic cultures of the same region.

The Neolithic period began in various parts of India from about 6000 BC onwards. Neolithic cultures were more widely distributed. The Neolithic culture in India is generally later than the Two River Valley culture.

The Gold and Gold Age, or Red Copper Age, in India, but metals had also entered human life. Goldstone Age cultures are found mainly in the inter-river lands of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, as well as in Rajasthan, Punjab, and Gujarat.?

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