Clothing customs:
The Bhutanese man wore a knee-length robe named Guo, with loose cuffs pulled up and pleats on his chest as pockets. Knee-length skirts and stockings, belts. Wear leather boots on your feet and a hat made in yak hair on your head. Bhutanese women usually wear robes or Kira skirts. I like to wear earrings, bracelets, pearl necklaces, red, white and green beads and other decorations. In addition to military uniforms, senior officers generally wear red and yellow robes; Monks usually wear purple robes. A corner of the robe was loosely draped over the left shoulder, revealing the right arm. Except for senior monks, most monks still walk barefoot now.
Catering customs:
Bhutanese mainly eat rice, corn, buckwheat, wheat and highland barley fried noodles, eat more beef and mutton, pork and cheese, and like ghee, rice cakes and highland barley wine. Bhutanese also like to eat Chili, and cooking is very spicy. Pepper is used as a vegetable, not a condiment. Bhutanese in the central region like eat areca. Bhutanese offer tea first, and guests should not refuse to drink a second cup of tea to show that they are willing to be friends with their hosts.
Etiquette and customs:
Bhutanese are hospitable and polite. Rich or poor, the host always treats the guests warmly. When the host and guests meet for the first time, the host is used to offering Hada to the guests. However, today's Hada is limited to ceremonies and the use of the elderly. When the head of state visits, the form of welcome is usually the exchange of Hada between the king and other members of the royal family. If you are summoned by the king for the first time, you can present Hada to the king, and the king will usually give him other gifts.
Marriage customs:
In many rural areas of Bhutan, the status of women is higher than that of men. According to Bhutanese folklore, after marriage, the man must be adopted by the woman's family and the daughter will take care of her parents. Therefore, the daughter inherits most of the property. In some villages in Bhutan, wives even have the freedom to remarry at the same time as long as their husbands agree.
Most Bhutanese believe in Tibetan Buddhism, and most Bhutanese families have to obey the wishes of the Buddha in such important matters as marriage. Usually, after the parents decide to get married, they go to the temple to ask the Lama for divination. According to the date of birth of the bride and groom, it is estimated whether their lives overlap. If their lives don't match, the Lama will have to make another Dojo to solve it. In order to catch up with the auspicious time, many weddings will be held at midnight. Bhutanese believe that at this time, people's hearts are the purest and suitable for such an important thing as holding a wedding.
From 65438 to 0980, the Royal Government of Bhutan promulgated the Marriage Law, announcing monogamy, abolishing polygamy and prohibiting child marriage. The legal marriage age stipulated by the government is 2 1 for men and 16 for women. Bhutan practices intermarriage among ethnic groups, and the government encourages Bhutanese to intermarry with Bhutanese and rewards them. When you get married, you usually ask lamas to recite Buddhist scriptures.
Living customs:
The furniture in Bhutan residents' homes is very simple. Generally, they sit on the floor and sleep in hammocks. Restricted by the terrain, there are only a few families in Bhutan villages, and the houses are crowded and simple. Due to the differences in topography and climate, houses in the northern and southern regions are mostly bungalows, while buildings in the central region are mostly three or four stories high. With the continuous development of Bhutan's economy, some towns began to build reinforced concrete buildings and other buildings in the 1970s. Nowadays, wealthy families have televisions, radios, tape recorders, watches and other items.
Local taboos:
Before eating, drinking and drinking tea, you need to throw some food and tea wine into the air and pray for God's blessing.
You can't eat meat on the day of killing pigs; If your family is not at home, you can't sweep the floor that day. If your family is sick, stick branches at the door and forbid outsiders to enter the house. If someone in the family dies, the family members of the deceased can't sing and dance, kill chickens and pigs, hunt or get married for one year.
Bhutanese hunters believe that the head horns of wild animals should not be left in Shan Ye or given to others, but should be hung on the kitchen wall so as not to be touched by outsiders. Hunters' hunting tools shall not be lent to outsiders.