Indian customs and taboos

1. Traditionally, India prefers boys to girls, because parents must prepare a generous dowry when their daughters get married. Without it, her daughter cannot get married. The way for Indians to celebrate the birth and safe growth of their children is to go to the temple for "Pujia ceremony", sing prayers, and then hold a dinner with relatives and friends.

After Indian children are born, parents will find someone to tell them divination, and most of the children's names are taken from heroes or gods. Children's birthdays are especially valued because they can decide who they will marry in the future.

2. Funeral

After the death of Hindus, the cremation ceremony was held at the altar by the river. After the death of Hindus, their families will wrap the bodies in yellow or white silk, then put them on two bamboo stretchers and carry them to the crematorium on the river beach in the form of a parade.

Second, taboo.

1. Most Indians believe in Hinduism. There are many vegetarians in the upper and middle classes. The more people there are, the fewer herbivores there are (they also eat eggs, butter and milk. Among Hindus, meat eaters don't eat beef and fish. However, Hindus are forbidden to eat on the same plate. When Islam enters a restaurant, it is necessary to eat pork and beef according to the menu. There are many vegetarian restaurants and brigades serving meat in India.

2. According to the traditional concept, women aged 10 to 50 are not allowed to enter the temple for pilgrimage, because women of this age will "defile" the temple because of their menstrual period. This traditional taboo was supported by Kerala High Court 199 1.

Extended data:

India in primitive society;

Some scattered early human fossils found in Narmada Valley (later named Narmada) show that humans have lived in India at least in the middle of Paleolithic Age. The genus classification of Narmadan is uncertain (Homo erectus or Homo sapiens); Its age ranged from 200,000 years ago to 500,000 years ago. The late Paleolithic period began about 40,000 years ago and ended at 1.5 million years ago.

The Middle Stone Age is equivalent to the Holocene in geology. Mesolithic culture is widely distributed in the subcontinent and Sri Lanka; The earliest Mesolithic site was found in Sri Lanka, and the northernmost site was found in the Hindu Kush Mountains. The culture there seems to be the direct development of Paleolithic culture in the same area.

From about 6000 BC, all parts of India entered the Neolithic Age. Neolithic culture is more widely distributed. The Neolithic culture in India is generally later than that in the two river basins.

India's stone tools and stone age, or bronze age, but metals have also entered human life. The culture of the stone-and-stone era is mainly found in the land between Ganges and yamuna river, as well as Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. ?

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