1, Indian food tastes very strong, usually spicy and sweet. This heavy-taste eating habit makes Indians show strong subjective personality. This may be the main reason why India has become a multi-religious country and Indians generally believe in religion.
India has been associated with China since ancient times, but Indians can't eat with chopsticks. India was colonized by Britain for more than 300 years, but Indians didn't eat with knives and forks.
It can be seen that Indians live in their own spiritual world and are very resistant to external influences. It can be seen that Indian society is not very keen on innovation and change, and India's development is only a passive response to changes in the external environment.
3. Indians eat by hand, and the food depends on banana leaves. This shows that:
(1), Indians attach importance to rules, but also to personal opinions, and always keep a certain distance from others.
Separate meals, everyone has nothing to do with each other, each has its own way of eating, each has its own way of living.
2. Indians try to be simple and straightforward when dealing with people.
Grab food, one for each person, and eat when you catch it. You don't have to worry about other people's dining feelings, and you don't have to talk about dining etiquette. You can eat whatever you want. Over time, the Indian temperament will become simple and straightforward, and people will become casual.
Indians don't pay attention to eating, they only do things according to their personal preferences, so they don't pay much attention to eating.
Indians use banana leaves to transport food, one for each person. Therefore, you don't have to pay attention to eating, to other people, and to washing dishes. Over time, Indians will not care about other people's opinions or concerns, and they will not take the aftermath seriously.
Indians' food is mainly vegetarian, which means that although Indians have strong personalities, their violent tendencies are not serious. Usually meat is more violent than the main race.
For example, Russians are mild on the surface, but they are also violent, which is inseparable from Russian eating habits. Relatively speaking, the probability of violence among quality ethnic groups is much smaller.
To sum up, we can see that Indians don't pay much attention to promises and keep them. Indians value their own interests and pay little attention to the legitimate interests of others. Indians are a little stubborn, but Indians are not evil. They have their tolerant and kind side. Indians attach great importance to the gains and losses of the present and will not care too much about the right and wrong of the past.
Therefore, when dealing with Indians, we should take one yard at a time and don't think too much. When you do business with Indians, you should pay with one hand and deliver with the other. Don't digress, and don't care about new and old customers, or you will suffer in nine cases out of ten.
In a narrow sense, life is alive, and life and work are undoubtedly the whole main line, and they are interrelated and cross. The culture of a country comes from folk customs, and the rules of a country also affect the living habits of people in this country. The two complement each other. No matter whether a country is going to be strong or weak, we can't let the traditional folk custom develop naturally, but change it. Any country that can be good at change is very powerful. India, as an alternative, is also changing, but its unique traditional consciousness has hindered this change and formed the national style and folk custom of Indian style. And people's behavior will naturally affect diet, because half of people's behavior is life, and work attitude and personality can also be seen from living habits.
Looking at the Indian character and folk customs from the perspective of diet: Indian diet is also the inheritance of a nation's eating habits. India's climate is relatively hot, and food storage is prone to mildew. Therefore, India likes to chop all vegetables and things. They like to mix all kinds of food together and add salt and spices, which is easy to preserve. This is the root of the Indian diet. Indians do not pursue the diversity of diet, nor do they pursue color, fragrance, taste and beauty. Indians are not picky about food and seem indifferent. Food is only used to fill the stomach. They are more accustomed to pursuing spiritual enjoyment. Indians live in the spiritual world, not the secular world.
Indians pay attention to spiritual beliefs and ignore real life. Therefore, they are usually not used to obeying the rules, but are more used to being sloppy and muddling along. Indians live in the spiritual world and are influenced by Indian religious beliefs. They believe in the cycle of life, and religious beliefs also affect the diet of Indians. Everything is simple. Eating by hand also limits many kinds of food. Not all food can be eaten by hand. Therefore, the Indian diet is relatively simple. When you turn on the TV in India, you rarely see all kinds of food programs, all kinds of eating methods and all kinds of ingredients. If you don't control them, no animal will give you anything to eat. The pursuit of spirit is inevitably a disregard for reality. Therefore, Indians are free and loose, lacking self-motivation, muddling along, not used to doing things in an orderly way, not paying attention to hygiene, and their homes are dirty and messy. They seldom clean them. Indian religious belief defines people's material world as illusion. Since it is an illusion, why take it seriously? Therefore, the social order in India is very chaotic, and they are not used to obeying the rules.
The randomness of Indian diet is also reflected in doing things, which is related to Indian religious beliefs;
Indian religion advocates reincarnation of life. Indians believe that human life can be repeated. In this case, the tide turns, and there is nothing to fight for, just wait, this life is not good, and the next life is good. Therefore, the Indian character is like handling food, as long as you are full. Indians have a loose personality and no sense of time. For example, India has a caste system, which divides people into four classes (one class is not enough), namely: Brahman (religion: monk aristocrat), Khrushchev (military and administrative aristocrat), Vedas (ordinary Aryans, main business), sudra and Dapu Rongsu (conquered indigenous people, slaves). In addition to the above, most of them are the fifth kind of people without hierarchy, namely: untouchables, unacceptable people; India has abolished the caste system for a long time, but it has not resisted. Therefore, most Indians still generally abide by this system. Therefore, Indians are self-centered. They are not United and are not good at change.
Excessive attachment to the spiritual world and indifference to real life also make India short-sighted, proud of it and lose itself;
India is indeed a wonderful country. Can you imagine an Indian going to the toilet with his left hand to wash his ass and grabbing food on his plate with his right hand? If you can accept this, you can accept many strange phenomena and habits in Indian society.
Indians respect nature and pursue "cleanliness". Their religious thoughts are deeply rooted. They don't wipe their bottoms with paper, but wash them by hand. They don't build toilets at home, but defecate in the wild, and even solve it on the street, saying that this is the pursuit of nature. Cattle can walk freely in the street, and no one will drive them away. Cow urine is used as a drink and cow dung is used to make cakes. It is said that this is a gift from God, and many wonderful things, just to name a few, just refresh our understanding of the earth.
This shows how amazing the Indian diet is. It not only tastes "strange", but also has a spicy shape. They are all sticky and full of reverie. Indians eat with their right hand and wash their bottoms with their left. You can't mess with them. When eating, the right hand will repeatedly stir the food evenly and then send it to the mouth. If you go to India, it is absolutely difficult for you to eat, but Indians eat with relish.
Indians mainly eat vegetarian food. They believe that vegetarian diet can make people noble, holy, healthy and cultivate people's temperament. Most people are moderate and modest, lacking the spirit of resistance and fighting. Judging from the fact that the police beat citizens with sticks in the street during the epidemic, they were almost resigned and lazy. Indians' personality is as loose and sparse as curry rice they eat, and there is a pungent smell.
Indians eat what they eat and do well. We can only marvel that Sam is really amazing!
The Indian diet is characterized by its rich and colorful appearance, but in fact it is very single, with various spices and sauces mixed together. The author has watched the preparation of various Indian foods countless times, giving him the impression that he is mindless and unintentional, with only a mechanical sense of ritual. Because there is no culture (I always think that India's civilization and culture are very low, except Buddhism, which has declined in India), there is a lack of understanding of ingredients, the relationship between ingredients and people, the lack of technical adjustment in all aspects of cooking, and the lack of cultural guidance for upgrading and integration, which makes most Indian dishes unreasonable and unhealthy, with inflexible cooking methods and procedures, unable to effectively use ingredients and energy, and neither beautiful nor healthy.
However, India's injuries are like chemical corrosion injuries, which are disgusting, but superficial, while those in the West and Japan are stabbed and stabbed, which is fatal!
I have never been to India. My understanding of India was introduced by friends who have been to India through the media and the Internet. After listening and watching for a long time, I think the overall situation is true. This includes the diet of Indian folk and high caste Indians. First of all, it should be true that Indian food is made into paste in order to cater to the Indian habit of eating by hand. In our real life, Indian dishes are similar in color and shape to vomit and excrement. They mixed the paste and rice with their right hands and grabbed them into their mouths. This low-level stupid way of eating is called advanced in India, just like they wipe their bottoms with their left hands. This disgusting operation is used by Indians against the whole world, saying that toilet paper is not clean! From these habits of Indians, I come to the conclusion that all ignorance, stupidity, ignorance and shamelessness are in India!
Indian food, like Indians, has a high degree of regional specificity and diversity, which is largely influenced by Indian history, conquerors, trading partners and Indian religious and cultural customs.
Characteristics of Indian food
Although Indian cuisine has strong regional characteristics, it still has something in common. For example, dishes all over India are highly dependent on curry to match meat, vegetables or cheese, and the fluidity and ingredients of spice mixtures and soups depend on regional preferences.
Generally speaking, people in southern India prefer rice to people in other areas.
All local dishes like beans. Indian dishes may use more beans than any other dishes in the world: red beans, Bangladesh beans, cajanus cajan or peas, black mung beans and mung beans. Cooking methods are also varied, such as whole beans, broken or ground into bean powder.
Another feature of Indian cuisine is that cream is added to dishes without dairy products, and protein is added to vegetarian dishes.
The most striking feature of Indian food is the diversified use of spices. Indian spice mixtures basically use more than five kinds of spices, and sometimes more spices are mixed. Such as pepper, black mustard seed, fennel, turmeric, fenugreek, ginger, garlic, cardamom, clove, coriander, cinnamon, nutmeg, saffron, rose petal essence and asarum powder. Chana Masala is a very popular spice mixture, which contains cardamom, cinnamon and clove. The remaining spices vary according to regional and personal preferences.
external action
The influence of trade is obvious in Indian cuisine, and some dishes in certain areas have obvious foreign marks. Indian spices are highly sought after by Arab and European businessmen. In exchange, India got many commodities that influenced its cooking tradition. For example, Portuguese businessmen brought tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, which have been deeply integrated into Indian cuisine. Arab merchants brought coffee and Ferula.
India's conquest period also greatly affected the development of its cuisine. Mughal conquerors occupied India from the beginning of15th century to the end of16th century. They injected Persian elements into Indian cooking traditions, such as using cream and butter in sauces and adding meat and nuts to dishes. Representative dishes include Biennis, Samosa and prowse.
Britain introduced soup and tea to India, but it had little effect on Indian food. On the contrary, the colonial process brought Indian food into British culture. For example, Indian roast chicken is a very popular dish. In fact, it is a product of India, but it is called "the real national dish of Britain". Even the western concept of "curry" (referring to a lot of gravy and stew-like dishes) originated from the British explanation. In fact, curry powder was invented by the British, and the spice mixture in India was originally prepared by British chefs in the colonies.
Indian Character and Nation
Indians are highly diversified in personality, and their cultural characteristics are greatly influenced by religious and regional characteristics. Ayurvedic doctrine emphasizes the balance between mind, body and spirit, and also stipulates the collocation of ingredients and cooking methods, which has a great influence on Indian cuisine and the words and deeds of believers. In addition, about one-third of people in India are vegetarians, which is determined by their religious beliefs such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism or Buddhism. Therefore, meat is not included in most Indian dishes. In addition, Hindus believe in cows, which are sacred, while Muslims believe that pork is unclean, so they never eat pork. According to different religious beliefs, certain ingredients will be deliberately subtracted from dishes in specific areas to conform to religious rules, which also brings various norms and restrictions to Indians who believe in this religion.
Briefly summarize the Indian personality characteristics as follows:
Maharashtra and Mumbai: interesting, uninhibited and noisy;
Southern States: well-educated, generally good at English, open-minded, and the best attitude and behavior in India;
Northeast India: men are violent and rude, and girls are beautiful and open-minded;
North India: Rude, conservative and aggressive.
Under the historical background of long-term political conquest, value system, social structure and socialization, Indians, like Indian food, generally emphasize taste, prefer stimulation and increase complexity and diversity, but their national unity, religious piety and loyalty to the country are admirable.