Where do modern gypsies live?

Gypsies are also called tzigans. A country characterized by vagrancy. Originally living in the northwest of India, 10 century began to move out and spread all over the world.

Shigang language belongs to Indo-European Neo-Indian language family. Gypsies now speak their local language and believe in local popular religions. Good at singing and dancing.

The Ibokan people have a racial name. Cigang people have different names in different areas. The British call them Gypsies, the French call them Bohemians, the Spaniards call them Flamengos, the Russians call them Zgang, the Albanians call them Evgitz, the Greeks call them Aginganos, the Iranians call them Rory, and Sri Lanka calls them Iaquintaka ... Gypsies call themselves Roma, and they call themselves.

Zigong people have traveled all over Europe, Asia, America, North Africa and Australia, but since World War II, the Balkans has become the most concentrated area of Zigong people in the world. In the cities of Balkan countries, Zgang people are everywhere. In Yugoslavia, there is even a proverb that "a town cannot be called a town without Zgang people".

According to the latest research, the ancestors of the Shigang people lived in Punjab, India. After about 10 century, under the pressure of war and famine, Cigang people began to leave India and emigrate. They don't have a fixed residence, but take caravans as their homes and means of transportation, make a living as street performers, wander from one city to another, and gradually become a world-famous wandering nation. With the progress of the times, in today's Yugoslavia, it is difficult to see the typical Zgang caravan, and most Zgang people live a settled life. But most of them don't have stable jobs. They mainly make a living by cleaning cars, reading palms, selling smuggled cigarettes and buying and selling foreign exchange.

From the French writer Merimee's Carmen, we can see some characteristics of this nation: enthusiasm and unrestrained, free and easy, wandering between the city and the countryside. Gypsies wander all the year round, unwilling to be bound by any other laws, which has become the norm since the eleventh century. Even today, 95% of gypsies still live in stone houses, but they still stick to the tradition of their ancestors and live tightly in a small space decorated with carpets, just like they used to live in an open carriage.

In their daily customs, there are two important concepts-purity and impure. For example, a woman's skirt accidentally sweeps into a man's bowl, so that bowl of vegetables will inevitably be dumped; In the convertible where they wander all the year round, there are always three buckets of water, one for washing food, one for washing face and the third for washing feet. If someone makes a mistake carelessly, they will be punished. It has its own court. When a person or a family has a dispute lawsuit, there is no trial prison. Punishment can kill a person, but it can't deprive a person of his freedom. Serious criminals classified as "unclean" will be excluded from the tribe. An isolated gypsy, the value of survival is almost zero.

Fortune-telling is a traditional occupation of gypsies, especially gypsy women. Nowadays, there are few traditional gypsies with mysterious crystal balls. Fortune tellers mostly use special gypsy fortune-telling cards to tell people's fortune. Most gypsy fortune tellers can play a "good hand": they turn a deck of cards around in their hands, wave a stack, throw another stack with their backhand, and then let you draw a few cards from it.

For centuries, the traditional occupation of Gypsies has been "bearing people". They buy cubs from people who specialize in poaching, then pull out bears' teeth and sharp claws, and then train them to perform various performances. But today, there are not many people still engaged in this old industry. Most people prefer to take "government asylum" as their occupation-receiving relief subsidies from the Social Security Bureau. For them, this is not as shameful as begging, but a job given by God.

Gypsy language and culture have a history of more than 500 years in Europe. Nevertheless, in the French province of Great Britain, 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. 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 will continue to live like gypsies-wandering around.