What are the characteristics of gypsies?

1, lifestyle

Gypsies don't care about farming and mulberry, and generally don't raise food animals, but rely on urban and rural residents to make a living. Traditionally, gypsies have been around towns and rural residential areas, seeking a livelihood suitable for their wandering life. Men are engaged in selling livestock, training animals, mending pots (black and white blacksmiths) and acting as musicians. Women are engaged in divination, selling medicine, begging and performing.

2. Family structure

A typical gypsy family consists of a couple, several children, at least one married son, his wife and children. After marriage, the couple live with the man's parents.

3. Appearance characteristics

The long face is a little square, the face is wide and narrow, the chin is a little sharp, the eyebrows are long, the eyes are big, long and bright, occupying more than half of the upper face, the nose is long, tall and straight, the mouth is a little wide, and the expression is calm and mysterious, with a little indifference.

The British call them Gypsies, the French call them Bohemians, the Spaniards call them Flamengos, the Russians call them Zgang, the Albanians call them Evgiz, the Greeks call them Aginganos, the Iranians call them Rory, the Sri Lankans call them Iaquintaka and so on.

Extended data:

Gypsy language and culture have a history of more than 500 years in Europe. Nevertheless, in Brittany, France, Gypsies are still regarded as foreigners and may be detained by the police at any time. And the related customs and agricultural land laws and regulations have also produced more and more unfavorable restrictions on it.

Gypsies have many names, and this situation lasted until the end of18th century. After hundreds of years of research, speculation and discussion on the origin of Gypsies, two German scholars Rudiger and Grellmann and British scholar Jacob Bryan made this outstanding contribution at the end of18th century.

All three of them are linguists. They independently and almost simultaneously verified that the languages of European Gypsies came from India by studying the Gypsies dialects in the 1980s from 65438 to 2008, and many of them are very similar to Indian Sanskrit.

Since then, many scholars have studied the language of gypsies, and finally come to the conclusion that the language of gypsies originated from the language of India, and the birthplace of gypsies should be in India.

Europeans always hope that Gypsies will continue to play guitar and dance by the campfire, but at the same time they hope that they will settle down, have a normal job, pay income tax regularly and send their children to school for education. However, gypsies don't think so. They want to continue to live like gypsies-wandering around.

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