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What’s special in India?

The Republic of India is commonly known as India. The northeast is bordered by China, Nepal and Bhutan, Bangladesh is sandwiched between the northeastern territories, the east is adjacent to Myanmar, the southeast is across the sea from Sri Lanka, and the northwest is bordered by Pakistan. It faces the Bay of Bengal in the east and the Arabian Sea in the west, with a coastline of 5,560 kilometers.

The climate is generally tropical monsoon, and the year is divided into three seasons: cool season (October to March), summer season (April to June) and rainy season (July to September). Rainfall is unevenly distributed.

India is the world’s second most populous country and one of the BRICS countries. India’s economy and industries are diversified, covering agriculture, handicrafts, textiles and services. Two-thirds of India’s population still depends directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. In recent years, the service industry has grown rapidly and has become the world’s most important exporter of services such as software and finance. The world’s largest exporter of generic drugs, and the world’s first in remittances.

India is a developing country with an extremely uneven distribution of social wealth, and the caste system problem is more acute.

Language

The language families in India mainly include the Indo-European language family, the Sino-Tibetan language family, the Austro-Asiatic language family, and the Dravidian language family. The language is complex.

The official language of India is Hindi , spoken by 30% of the population; English has terminated its status as the only official language (same as Hindi) in 1965, but still retains its “second additional official language” status , is also a national lingua franca, mainly used in political and business exchanges. There are also 21 other predetermined official languages ​​of ethnic minorities.

There are about 2000 languages ​​in India, 55 of which have their own script and literature. Nineteen well-established languages ​​with their respective literary treasures are designated as official languages ​​of India.

Religion

Every religion in India has its followers in the subcontinent. Throughout the Indian subcontinent there are countless beautiful temples, majestic churches, grand mosques, incense-filled Buddhist temples, synagogues and Zoroastrian monasteries.

Mumbai, a commercial megacity in western India, can be said to be a microcosm of India’s religious, ethnic and linguistic diversity. In addition to the temples and churches of the above-mentioned religions, there are also famous Armenian churches, Shinto temples and Datong temples in the city.

Apparel – men’s turban

Men in some regions and beliefs in India have the custom of wrapping headscarves, which are called Turbans. There are various ways of wrapping the turban, among which the turban for Sikh men has a specific style. According to tradition, Sikhs must grow their hair, beards, and turbans from childhood to adulthood.

The style of children’s headscarf is relatively simple, only black cloth is used to tie it into the shape of a bun. The turban style for adults is more complicated. First, the long hair must be tied into a bun with a black elastic band, and then wrapped into a turban with a piece of cloth about 3 meters long. Sikh headscarves come in many colors, and some even match the color of their clothes.

Most Indian men wear a loose stand-collar tunic (tunic) with narrow-leg trousers (Dhoti). For men in Rajasthan, the trousers are wrapped in a piece of white cloth, with a towel on the head, and the patterns vary greatly. , bright color.

Women wearing sari

The traditional dress of Indian women is sari, which refers to a piece of fabric more than 15 yards long, which is wrapped around the body in a wrapping manner when worn. Indian women are good at using techniques such as tying, encircling, tying, wrapping, wrapping, draping, etc., to make saris have different changes on the body.

Rajasthani women’s sarees are shorter, only draped over the head, but are colorful and trimmed with gold and silver embroidery. Rajasthani women’s tops are somewhat like a collarless Chinese impatiens dress, and the bottom is a long, floor-length skirt with piping.

Specialty

The origin and development of Indian tea was long before tea became a commodity, that is, around 1830 AD. Most of the tea trees were wild and distributed in the jungles of the northeast of Assam.

Around AD 1598, a Dutch tourist named Jan Huyghen van Linschoten wrote a book about his expedition. He said that India eats a leaf as a vegetable and boils it with curries, oil, and even boils it as a brewed drink.