Chapter 57 Indian Asan

Dear Xiaowen: In ancient times, there was a man who had the ability to stand on one foot for a long time. He said to the people of Sparta (in today's Greece): "I don't believe you have this ability." (I do not believe you can do as much. ) But the Spartans replied to him, what a big deal, "Every goose can." (True, but every goose can.) The ancient times have passed, but there are still people who stand on one foot to show off in modern times. These are Indians.Indians have a lot of tricks like this, standing on one foot, holding one hand up, standing exposed to the sun for many hours, remaining with the head bent down, and holding the head bent down. Make a fist and let the nails grow through the palm of the hand (Keep their fists closed for years, so that the nails grow through the palm and out of the back of the hand.), or buried in the ground for a few days, still alive (remain buried for days at a time and emerge from their “graves” alive). ...

These boring stunts are all Indian skills.The most decent part of this set of skills is called "yoga 1. (in Hindu religious philosophy) a system of ascetic practice, abstract meditation, and mental concentration, used as a method of attaining union with the supreme spirit. 2 . a system of exercises or rigid physical positions for achieving serenity and well-being.), those who believe in yoga are called yogi, and many Indians believe it.The father of the current Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Gandhi mentioned in his letter to you on October 19 last year (who has been in prison for ten and a half years) gets up early every day to take a big top. It is said that this can relax himself (Nehrus wife died in 1936 and his only daughter is his official hostess. He likes playing with his two grandsons. Every morning he starts his day by standing on his head to relax himself.).There is an old Chinese saying that saving the common people is "relieving the people from hanging upside down". If the common people take pleasure in "hanging upside down" like this, then what a fart it is! (The last letter mentioned that Peter asked to be crucified upside down to show his respect for his teacher Jesus, probably Peter is also a yogi!)

Indians seem to always have something on top of their heads, "Baotou" is the minimum, and there are many other things on top of their heads!Indian women have a kind of "The Dance of the Water Pots" (The Dance of the Water Pots), in which a large copper teapot is placed on top of each person's head. The Chinese are ambitious, but they are more practical and specific than the Chinese. There are six million people in India who wear their own beards on their heads. These people are called Sikhs. They advocated equality between men and women very early on. Shave (but if they shine shoes, they may be caught by barbers, because Indian barbers look like shoe shine stalls).

There are about six million Sikhs, and their picturesque appearance distinguishes them from the rest of the population. They are strong, tall and vigorous, and in cities often serve as policemen, watchmen and cab drivers.), so barbers dare not catch them, nor can they catch them.Why don't Sikhs cut their hair, because they believe in Sikhism, and Sikhism is not allowed, so Sikhs tangle their beard and hair together and wrap them with white cloth on top of their heads. (Keeping the hair and beard tied in a knot above the head.) (The Sikhs religion forbids them to cut their hair or beards. It strongly emphasizes the brotherhood of all men and forbids the drinking of alcohol. These soldiers have their hair fastened into a tightly-rolled topknot on the crown of the head and are wearing the characteristic beard retainer, a fine net attached to the ears at either end.)

Although Sikhism is "a hairless", it combines the strengths of other religions and advocates equality.Its leader, who lived in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, died in prison for his faith.Sikhs are also not allowed to drink alcohol, so not only the director of the Barber Association hates them, but also the director of the Tobacco and Alcohol Sales Bureau hates them. Do you remember that in the letter Dad wrote to you about cattle on February 16 last year, it was mentioned that "cows are so used to walking on the road" in India?This is because 85% of India is Hindus. Hindus only use cattle to plow fields and pull carts, but they are not allowed to eat beef because they think cattle are sacred.During the Indian election, because there were too many people who could not read and did not know which party belonged to which party, a picture was printed on the ballot paper, and a cow was used to represent the Congress Party (that is, the party of Mrs. Gandhi). As a result, everyone Vote for bull! (Besides cattle, monkeys and snakes are also sacred.)

Hinduism (The religious (Polytheistic) and social systems of the Hindus, developed from Brahmanism, and embodying animalistic beliefs. The caste system is the chief characteristic. , the social class system is its main feature) Although it is polite to cattle, it is extremely rude to people.Hinduism divides people into four castes, and each caste does what it will do forever (from grandpa's grandpa to grandson's grandson).Among the four classes, the third class is farmers and merchants (Gandhi belongs to this class, Gandhi has been in prison for nearly six years and five months, and Dad talked to you in the letter of October 19 last year), the fourth class A slave, a servant.There is another kind of non-grading called "Untouchables". They are not even allowed to be slaves, servants, or even to work, and they are only allowed to beg (even forbidden to work, and can only beg). Be sure to ask for money from the person who gave the money, and hide far away. The person who gave the money throws the money on the ground, and the Untouchables will pick it up again. It is not acceptable to give it directly.

The shadow of Untouchables will not work if it touches the four classes mentioned above!If you are touched by a shadow, you have to take a shower quickly! There are 60 million Untouchables - four times the population of Taiwan! People of other classes, if they break the rules and are expelled, they will become Untouchables, so no one dares to pay a fine or eat cow dung and cow urine (cow dung and cow urine) to beg for mercy if they break the rules. Never dare to foul again (promise never to sin again), because once you become Untouchables, you become a political prisoner, and everyone will avoid you.

Have you seen?In Journey to the West, Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie went to the West to learn scriptures, that is, they went to India. India is the birthplace of Buddhism. The leader of Buddhism is Sakyamuni, who is five or sixty years older than Jesus and older than Confucius. Twelve years old.Buddhism is very strange. It has been spread in India for a thousand years, but it was lost. India itself disappeared, but went to other people's homes. India's neighbors (like China) and neighbors' neighbors (like Japan) are everywhere. Buddhists, but the number of Buddhists in India today is only three to four million (out of more than two hundred people, there is only one Buddhist believer), do you think it is strange?

In fact, it is not surprising, because Hinduism has absorbed Buddhism into its big pocket, so there are still many traces of Buddhism in India today. The bicycle wheel in the middle of the Indian flag is the Dharma wheel of "Long-turning Dharma Wheel" in Buddhism ( Flag of India. The saffron (orange-yellow) stripe is for courage and sacrifice; white is for truth and purity; and green for faith and chivalry, the wheel is an ancient symbol, the Dharma Chakra (Wheel of Law). Adopted in 1947), Asoka of India in the third century BC—the guy who tried his best to spread Buddhism to other people’s homes—has a carved stone lion, and this is the Dharma wheel below.

Another example is the "combination" of both hands, which is also a Buddhist habit.Pay attention to the gesture of Mrs. Gandhi, a political prisoner who has been in prison for one year and one month, mentioned in the letter on October 19 last year. The Ganges is a big river in India. In Chinese Buddhism, there is a word "the number of sand in the Ganges", which means many, many.Hindus believe that river burial can lead to heaven after death, so they not only bathe in the river, but also throw the ashes after cremation into the river. Indians cremate, because they believe that once a person dies, he can burn his soul out and free the soul from the body (China did not have cremation until the Song Dynasty. Have you seen it? Fighting tiger Wu Song’s older brother, Pan Jinlian’s husband, Wu Dalang, was cremated).

Cremation in India is public cremation. It is an ancient Indian custom. When the husband dies, the wife will jump into the fire to accompany him to death during the cremation!It is called suttee in English. The average life expectancy of Indians used to be thirty-two years old (now it is forty-one years old). Husbands are prone to die early, and wives will be unlucky if they die. This bad custom has now broken the law. (SUTTEE is a Hindu custom that people once practiced is India. Its name comes from the Sanskrit word sati, which means faithful wife. By the custom of suttee, a widow allows herself to be burned to death beside her husbands body on the funeral pyre . The pyre is a pile of material that burns easily. No one knows how the custom began. An ancient book states that a widow should lie by her husbands body on the funeral pyre. A few widows, especially the wives of kings, refused to leave the pyre and burned to death. In 1829, the British, then the rulers of India, made suttee illegal.) However, as an Indian wife, there is at least one person who has taken advantage of it, that is, Mahal, the wife of the Indian king Shah Jahan (Shah Jahan) three hundred years ago. After her death, her husband spent more than 20 yuan for her. In 2009, a beautiful large tomb was built - Taj Mahal, taj means crown in Arabic. Taj Mahal is the most representative building in India, in Agra, India (not on the map, Dad ordered a small spot for you and it is there).It is the most beautiful tomb in the world. (TAJ MAHAL at Agra, in north central India, the crowning jewel of Indo-Islamic architecture. A Mogul ruler, Shah Jahan, erected the monument as a tomb for a beloved wife, Arjumand Banu, better know by her title of Mumtaz Mahal or Taj Mahan 1 (Crown of the Palace). In 1631 she died after bearing fourteen children in eighteen years. The construction of the tomb, began the next year, employed some 20000 workmen for nearly twenty years.) Indian women have more small dots on their heads, called "auspicious dots", and they wear "sari", which is twenty feet long and three feet wide, and they don't need tailors (of course tailors hate this thing).Some women are so poor that they only have one sari, so they cannot change it. (Many Indian men have partly adopted European dress. Indian women, however, remain loyal to the national costume, the sari, a garment which emphasizes their dignified and majestic bearing. The simple yet extremely elegant line of the sari is reminiscent of the costume of ancient Greece, while its striking colors, and gold and silver embroidery, are a further example of the Indians love of bright things. The garment is a strip of cloth some twenty feet long and three feet wide. It is draped round the body without any pin or button being used. It is extremely simple in use and presents no dress-making problem.) Indian women like decorations, even decorations on the nose, which of course can only be done if you are very rich.The poor in India have no home at all, they sleep on the road, and the richest have billions of dollars!This is the most wrong thing.The British ruled India for 190 years. Of course, the British should be responsible for this phenomenon. India is too poor and has too many people (there are the most Chinese in the world, followed by Indians). India's constitution is the longest in the world. (The constitution of India is the longest in the world.) Indians eat with their right hand, thinking that their left hand is not as clean as their right hand. (The various Hindu castes have different food laws. Most castes eat only with the right hand because they consider the left hand unclean. Some castes eat meat, and others eat fish but not meat. Some castes eat meat, and others eat fish but not meat. eat neither meat nor fish, but so eat eggs. Still others do not eat eggs.) Indian elephants are a bit smaller than African elephants and don't look the same. It is Chinese ink.It is Chinese Bible paper.These two things are obviously Chinese, but they use Indian names. There are many snakes in India, killing 300,000 people every year.In India, there are snake-charmers or snake-charmers who play the flute in front of the snake. In fact, the snake can't hear it, but just watches his movements and moves accordingly. (Indian Snake Charmer may fool his audience, but he does not charm the snake. The cobra cannot hear the music of the flute. It sways merely to follow the movements of the charmer.) Indians like to watch the fight between mongoose and cobra. The mongoose moves faster than the snake, so it always has the upper hand.Meerkats are usually gentle, but they can be fierce when they see snakes. The most famous Indian writer is Tagore. He has been to China and won the Nobel Prize. A Chinese scholar, Liang Qichao, gave Tagore a Chinese name of "Zhu Zhendan". (Zhu is Tianzhu, ancient China called India "Tianzhu", and Zhendan is another name for "China".) (TAGORE was an Indian poet, philosopher, and supporter of freedom for India. In his many poems and songs, he stirred pride among his Hindu countrymen. He also had a strong influence on the West. Tagore was influenced by European models in his writings. He was a mystical and religious poet, and saw God in all beauties of nature. He wrote prose and poetry in the Bengali Language. These have been translated into many languages. Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.) You can ask grandma to buy you a book by Zhu Zhendan. "The Lost Birds" was also translated into "Wandering Bird Collection" or "Wandering Birds". dad April 20, 1975 P.S. All the books, cards, and pictures you sent have been received.