Indian women married what to pay attention to?

India is known as the Kingdom of the Cow, and the cow is the most sacred and inviolable animal in the region. When driving on the road, be careful not to hit a cow, and do not wear cow products into the temple, and it is best to try to avoid taking pictures of cows. There is also a particularly different custom in India, when answering the other side of the question if you will tilt your head to the side or shaking your head, it is a sure sign, do not get the wrong idea, causing undue trouble. Hindu Indians practise a caste system, and it is extremely impolite to inquire about the caste of the local people

Don't touch a child's head

People in India and other places don't want others to touch any part of their head, and they don't like to touch other people

They believe that the head is the tallest part of the human body, and it is also the most sacred part of the human body, especially a child's head, which is regarded as the place where God stays. They believe that the head is the highest part of the human body and the most sacred part of the human body, especially the head of a child, which is considered to be the place where God stays

Being invited to dinner without having to be polite in the minds of the Indians, when you eat something you have to share it with everyone and eating alone is a petty and impolite behavior, so the Indians invite people to **** meal, never in the way of the sentimentality of the false sympathy, but a sincere invitation to refuse to be rejected outside of a thousand miles of the people of course, people are not pleased

Don't eat with people with different identities. The Nepali people attach great importance to status in India if the status of different or different class, can not be the same *** table, eat together Nepalese people have a similar class division, in their country, the importance of status, more than anything

Buy alcohol time limit in Thailand, there is a rule, after 2:00 a.m. no longer allowed to buy alcohol, or else the police will be fined

There is a time limit in India in New Delhi, Tuesday, Friday, public holidays, the police will not buy alcohol, but to buy alcohol. In New Delhi, India, Tuesdays, Fridays, public holidays and the first day of the month are no-alcohol days, when even the most powerful people can't buy alcohol

No photos on Buddha statues

In Southeast Asia's Buddhist countries, it's considered a sin for travelers to act rashly toward temple statues and monks. Some unknowledgeable tourists were once punished for sitting on a statue of the Buddha and taking souvenirs of it, or placing them in a place of worship, which is not allowed in the city. The souvenirs that you want to take back with you should not be placed on the ground because in a Buddhist country, although you own the statue you bought, you must have a respect for it, and if you treat it as a plaything, place it at random or move it roughly, this kind of behavior will cause the people of that country to be unhappy

Birth

Births

Traditionally in India are very patriarchal because when a daughter gets married, the parents have to prepare a large dowry, and if there is no dowry, the parents will be forced to give a dowry. dowry, without which the daughter cannot get married. And this is really a huge burden for poor families.

Indians will clap their hands if they give birth to a daughter, which means they come empty-handed. But if the birth is a son, it is very different, the family will immediately celebrate by banging a gong, indicating that the son's future wife, can bring a loud dowry.

Indian national customs talk

Back to the city horse to take everyone to go shopping, in the car he is already "fall full of mouth head" (Cantonese, meaning to sell the lobby) introduced India's perfume how expensive, how good tea, etc. "Szema Zhaozhi's heart," he said, "is a good idea, but it is not a good idea. "Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows", what he wants, of course, we understand, look at it, suitable to buy a little bit, in fact, he brought to the Indian store selling perfume is very expensive, a small bottle of 15 U.S. dollars, rose, jasmine, lavender and sandalwood, buy five get one free, I do not know if it is not the introduction of the small horse natural material refining.

Dinner, is in Delhi, an antique restaurant to eat, the hotel are the British colonial era of things (sort of antiques, right) old cars, old tables, chairs, photographs, lamps and what to do decoration. First of all, upstairs to see the song and dance show, the projector in order to introduce the various ethnic groups in India, each introduced to the performance of a national song and dance, the actors on the four women and two men, although the image of the actors almost, sound and color art! Half an hour of performance, music and dance are not bad, happy full of foreigners happy extraordinary. After the show, we went downstairs to eat Indian food, there are roast chicken, curry food, pancakes, etc., honestly not very good. As for many people concerned about, go to India whether can't drink Indian water, to drink will have diarrhea, according to my whole feeling, is not a thing. Maybe not really drink the water of the Ganges.

On the way back to the hotel, the horse answered everyone's questions, for example, India's schools, said that compulsory education, but also to collect monthly management fees, public schools are 10-100 rupees, of course, is different from different schools charge differently. But private schools are more expensive, 2-3000 rupees per month. The school system in India is six years of elementary school, four years of middle school, three years of high school, thirteen years, and then college. Talking about the Indian marriage customs, Xiao Ma said with a smile, India is still a lot of parents arranged, unmarried still do not know who their bride is, the Indian people are married first and then fall in love. He said that in Hinduism there is no such word as divorce, Indians marry only once in a lifetime, a woman married, will be fixed for life with a man, no divorce. Married women are easy to distinguish, that is, between the eyebrows will be a little on the red dot of makeup. It is said that all the women who died of their husbands, they have to wear white clothes all their lives, can not wear jewelry. There are also free love marriages, but they are not as good as arranged marriages, and many of them end in divorce. Talking about the remote areas of India in the past, there are women married to their husbands, the husband died, in the husband's cremation, "martyrdom" thing. Some in-laws thought the bride's dowry was not enough and burned the bride to death. Xiao Ma admitted that in the past, there was, as to whether it was thrown into the fire, or jumped into the fire, it is not known. However, Ma repeatedly emphasized that "there has been no such thing since the 80s". When it comes to the population of India, Xiao Ma smiled and said that Hinduism and many other sects do not have family planning, and that India has a population of nearly 1.1 billion people (according to the official statistics released by India in 2002, the population of India is about 1.027 billion.) Soon it will surpass China and become the world's most populous country.

The way Indians celebrate the birth and safe growth of a child is to go to a temple for the Puja ceremony, sing prayers, and then have a meal with friends and family.

After a child is born in India, the parents have their names read by a fortune teller, and the child is often named after a hero or a god. The child's birth name is especially important because it can determine the child's future marriage partner.

Funerals

Hindus are cremated at the river altar when they die. 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 dead to the crematorium was supposed to be taken up by the family, but nowadays most people leave it to specialists. In India, those who specialize in funeral matters are considered untouchables of the lowest caste status.

Generally burial ceremonies are very simple, but wealthier families may have musicians playing in front of them in a vast procession. Before the cremation, the eldest son of the deceased must walk around the body three times with an oil lamp in his hand, and when the cremation woodpile is lit, the eldest son of the deceased must shave his hair, leaving only a small tuft at the back of his head, and then go to the river to bathe and purify himself. At the end of the cremation, the ashes of the deceased are swept into the river, representing that the soul has been freed from the body and liberated.

Weddings

Indian weddings are a representation of social status and the most important ceremony in a lifetime. When young Indians reach marriageable age, they are asked by their parents to find a match of the same social class, language, region, and background, as well as an astrological sign that can match.

Indian wedding ceremony is quite complicated, before the marriage, both parents will act as a matchmaker through the priest to discuss the dowry matters, the woman must agree to the amount of dowry proposed by the man and woman before the two sides to choose the auspicious date, begin to prepare for the wedding. The day before the wedding, the bride must follow the traditional make-up style, start anointing, bathing, dressing, combing hair, eyeliner, lipstick, and painted red on the feet, red tikka on the forehead, black moles on the chin, and then plant dyes on the hands and feet to decorate the hanas, and then spritzed with perfume, jewelry and hair accessories, and finally blackened teeth, betel nut chewing, and lipstick, and then considered the completion of the work.

On the day of the wedding, the groom rode a white horse to the bride's home. By this time, the woman's home has set up a fire altar, the two sides of the family and friends in the priest recited the auspicious words, around the fire altar to pray. After that, the bride surrounded by female companions to the front of the fire altar, by the priest will be the bride's sari and the groom's scarf tied together, on behalf of a long and lasting marriage.

The dinner of an Indian wedding takes place at the bride's home, where the couple sits in the wedding feast to receive the blessings of friends and relatives. The groom spends the night at the bride's house on the evening of the wedding day, before taking her home the following day.

Puja

Puja is a Hindu ritual of worship to a god, and the puja ceremony must be performed by a priest. During the ceremony the 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. The ceremony ends with the priest holding an oil lamp and performing '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 acceptance of the power given by the god.

Often after the Puja ceremony, the devotee is given a share of some ritualized flowers, tikka powder or water called 'Prasada'. That is why in India, whenever you see Indians coming out of a temple to worship, they almost always have red or white powder smeared on their foreheads.

Traditional Dress

In India, the religion, race, class and region of the local people can be seen by the different dresses and costumes.

Male Wrapped Turban

Most Indian men are wrapped in a turban, which is called (Turban). There are various methods of wrapping the turban, among which the Sikh male turban, has a specific style.

Traditionally, Sikhs are required to grow their hair and beard and wear a turban from childhood to adulthood. Children's turbans are simple and are tied with a black cloth in the shape of a bun. Adult turban style is more complex, first of all must be tied with a black elastic band long hair into a bun, and then a 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 turbans, some even match the color of their clothes.

Most Indian men wear a loose-fitting, stand-up collar tunic with narrow-legged pants (Dhoti), and men in Rajasthan, the pants are wrapped in a piece of white cloth, and the turban on the head is very varied and colorful.

Women Wear Sari

The traditional dress of Indian women is the sari, a piece of fabric 15 yards long or more, which is wrapped around the body in a shawl. Indian women are good at utilizing the techniques of 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 edges. The blouse of Rajasthani women is somewhat like a Chinese phoenix dress without a collar, and the bottom is a floor-length skirt with piping.

Sari Wearing Style

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 a variety of ways, different races, regions, beliefs, there will be many different colors, textures and wear wrapped in different ways. When Indian women wear a sari, the top is a short-sleeved, navel-exposing bodice (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 and tuck it into the right side of the petticoat.

2. Wrap the sari around the hem from right to left, about three or four times.

3. Fold the sari fabric in four at the right front and tuck it into the petticoat head.

4. Then take the remaining fabric and wrap it around the right armpit from the left back and drape it over the left shoulder.

5. Finally, drape the sari directly over the shoulders or over the head.