Food:

Myanmar is rich in rice, and the people take rice as their staple food. For breakfast, they often eat "Mohenka", coconut noodles, coconut porridge, cold noodles, cold rice noodles and various pastries and snacks made with glutinous rice, coconut and white sugar.

Burmese people have the habit of drinking morning tea. People drink coffee, milk tea and eat snacks in teahouses. Such as bread with butter, jam, cheese, meat buns, fried dough sticks and fried cakes, and also like to drink fish fillet soup, duck porridge, etc. ?

Burmese people are relatively frugal in their diet. It is often served with fish and shrimp paste, chili, boiled beans, and pickled cabbage leaf soup. Myanmar cuisine pays attention to oil, spicy, fragrant, fresh, sour and salty. The main methods of macro-adjustment are fried, grilled, stir-fried and cold. Fried and grilled food is easy to preserve, does not need to be heated when served cold, and can dispel heat. Myanmar has many rivers along the coast, rich in fish and shrimps, and easy to catch. There are many foods made from fish and shrimp as raw materials in Myanmar. Myanmar people like to pickle bamboo shoots into sour bamboo shoots and stir-fry them with other vegetables and meat, which is delicious.

Burmese people’s taste is sour, spicy, light, and not greasy. It is similar to the taste of Sichuan in China. Chili oil is generally required on the dining table. People like to eat chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, shrimp paste, fish paste, and curry, which requires a slightly sweet taste, preferably mixed with tomatoes. In addition to eating ordinary vegetables, people like to cook with fruits. For example, cut the mango into slices and mix it with soy flour, dried shrimps, shrimp soy sauce, onions and fried chili seeds. It tastes sour, salty, spicy and fresh.

Clothes

Myanmar is a country that has preserved its traditional culture very well. In Yangon, more than 80 people still wear national costumes. Both men and women wear sarongs on their lower bodies. The men's version is called "Longji" and the women's version is called "Temin". Although men and women wear them slightly differently, the colors are brighter. Men's and women's tops are all right-fronted, and some have double-breasted tops. Men's tops are collarless, double-breasted, long-sleeved blouses, and a pink, yellow, or white tulle or silk handkerchief is wrapped around their heads as a hat for attending events. Women's tops are mostly long-sleeved shirts with slanted lapels. The sleeves are long and narrow, and the color is mostly milky white or pink. In order to adapt to the tropical climate, they are mostly made of tulle. Women generally keep their hair long, curl it into buns, and arrange flowers. They also like to wear various jewelry. Burmese people rarely wear shoes and socks, and all men, women and children like to wear slippers.

Myanmar people:

There are 135 ethnic groups in Myanmar, with a total population of 51.419 million (2014). The main ethnic groups are Bamar, Karen, Shan, and Gram. Chin, Chin, Kayah, Mon and Rakhine, etc. More than 85% of the people in the country believe in Buddhism, and about 85% believe in Islam.

Ethnicity:

There are 135 ethnic groups in Myanmar, of which the Bamar accounts for about 65% of the total population. The other major ethnic groups include the Karen, Shan and Kachin. , Chin, Kayah, Mon and Rakhine, etc.

Religion:

More than 85% of people in Myanmar believe in Buddhism, about 5% believe in Christianity, 8% believe in Islam, about 0.5% believe in Hinduism, and 1.21% believe in Hinduism. Animism.

Buddhism in Myanmar is mainly Theravada Buddhism. Buddhism is not only the religious belief of the Burmese people, but also the source of their moral education. Buddhist scriptures, especially the "Auspicious Sutra", are the life philosophy of the Myanmar people and are deeply imprinted in people's hearts. Burmese people often visit gods and worship Buddha in their daily lives. Believers walk barefoot and are not allowed to wear shoes or socks. Do not act rashly toward temples, Buddha statues, or monks, and do not wear short or see-through clothes. In Myanmar, boys from Buddhist families are required to enter a temple as a monk for a period of time and live a life of retreat before they can return to secular life and get married. Myanmar people respect and admire monks very much. As long as a monk comes to ask for alms, they will not hesitate to give the best belongings at home to the monk. Myanmar people are devout to the Buddha, the folk customs are simple and kind, and the social crime rate is relatively low.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Burmese