Indian culture is full of cultural syncretism and cultural pluralism is constantly absorbing customs, traditions, and ideas from invaders and immigrants while continuing to maintain the tradition already established and spread the culture of India to other places in Asia.
India is one of the countries - countries in the world that still uphold most of their custom. sometimes some fairly rare abandoned kjarena no longer conform to modern India. India are somewhat unique, there will be no out - ending discuss about ethnic and culture of India from her unique that sari to a variety of other unique cultures.
1. Custom Clothing India
Traditional clothes vary by region in India. Colorful and traditional clothing styles depend on various factors, especially climate. In the form of cloth draped clothing is a fashion style that is popular in India. Women wear clothes called sari, and a man dressed in dhoti or lungi called. Clothes sewn from fabric are also popular, such as salwar kameez worn women. Men wearing kurta pajama following, in addition to pants and shirts were also popular European style.
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2. Traditional cuisineIndian cuisine includes a variety of typical dishes from various regions in India. Characteristic of Indian cuisine is the use of spices and herbs that diverse. India's staple food is rice (mainly in southern and eastern India) and wheat in eastern India. Spices like pepper is originally from the Indian subcontinent. Chilli became popular in India thanks introduced by the Portuguese. examples of the most popular Indian dishes are Murg Makhani and Martabak
some strange culture of India which on average are left out are:
1. Culture Sati
Sati funeral culture is the practice among some Hindu communities where a new widow woman would voluntarily or by using violence and coercion to sacrifice himself burnt on a funeral pyre of her husband. This practice is now rare and abandoned in modern India.
2. Crab Ritual
In the city of Gujarat India, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, hundreds of Hindu followers to stand in long queues to offer crab as a sacrifice to Lord Shiva in the temple of God in mid-January. Special crab has become a ritual of age-old and people believe that their wishes will be fulfilled by offering crab at the Ramnath Shiv temple Ghela.
3. Burying Tradition
Another Hindu tradition and very strange is the practice of burying disabled children live up to their neck for six hours during a solar eclipse for approximately six hours; Hindus say that they do this practice to counteract the ill-effects caused by the eclipse of the sun.
4. Thaipusam
Thaipusam is a festival which is celebrated by Hindus Tamil during the Tamil month of Thai (January-February), also celebrated by non-Indian Hindus who were in Sri Lanka-, Malaysia and South Africa; Thaipusam is dedicated to the Hindu god Murugan, son of Shiva and Parvati. On the day of Thaipusam, the vast majority of the god Murugan gave him the fruits and flowers of yellow or orange color, favorite color and also decorate the dress of the same color, many people do abuse their bodies to please the gods to forgive them.
5. Health Strange Ritual
In some parts of India, this tradition practiced by Hindu religious leaders to heal children who suffer ailments such as flu, fever. Every year, Indian police arrest people who perform this practice; This strange and dangerous ritual that has been done in India about 500 years.
I think one of the most in India are proud of their ancestral culture still memgang firm and maintain and strive not affected by cultural modernization.
