1, Indian food tastes very heavy, generally spicy and sweet. This heavy-taste eating habit makes the Indian character show a strong subjective personality. This may be the main reason why India has become a multi-religious country and Indians are generally religious.
India has been associated with China since ancient times, but Indians don'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 their hearts 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 value rules, but also pay attention to personal opinions, and always keep a certain distance from others.
Eating separately, everyone has nothing to do with each other, each has its own way of eating and living.
Indians are as simple and straightforward as possible in dealing with people.
Grab a meal, one for each person, and eat when you catch it. Don't worry about other people's dining feelings, and don't 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 food, they only do things according to their personal preferences, so they don't pay much attention.
Indians use banana leaves to transport food, one for each person. Therefore, you don't have to pay attention to eating, others don't have to pay attention, and you don't have to pay attention to washing dishes. Over time, Indians will not care about other people's opinions, nor will they care about other people's concerns, nor will they take the aftermath seriously.
4. Indian food is mainly vegetarian, which means that although Indians have strong personalities, their violent tendencies are not serious. Usually meat is more violent than major ethnic groups.
For example, Russians are gentle on the surface, but they are also very violent, which is inseparable from Russian eating habits. Relatively speaking, the quality of ethnic violence tendency is much smaller.
To sum up, it can be seen that Indians don't pay much attention to their promises and don't 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, and they have their tolerant and kind side. Indians value the gains and losses of the present and don't care too much about the right and wrong of the past.
Therefore, when dealing with Indians, one yard at a time, don't think too much. When you do business with Indians, you should pay with one hand and deliver with the other. Don't stray from the subject, 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 thread, which are interrelated and cross each other. A country's culture comes from folk customs, and the rules of a country also affect the living habits of its people. The two are complementary. No matter whether a country is 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 human behavior will naturally affect diet, because half of human behavior is life, and work attitude and personality can also be seen from living habits.
Look at Indian character and folk custom from diet; Indian diet is also the inheritance of a nation's eating habits. India's climate is hot, and food storage is prone to mildew. So India likes to chop up all vegetables and things. They like to mix all kinds of food together and add salt and spices, so it 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 their diet, which seems 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 following 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. So 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 can give you something to eat. The pursuit of spirit must be indifference to 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 beliefs define people's material world as illusion. Since it is an illusion, why take it seriously? So 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 that case, the tables have turned, so what are you arguing about? 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, there is a caste system in India, which divides people into four classes (one is not hierarchical enough), namely: Brahman (religion: monk aristocrat), Khrushchev (military and political aristocrat), Veda (ordinary Aryan, main business), sudra and Dapu Zhengsu (conquered aborigines, 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. So most Indians still generally abide by this system. Therefore, Indians are self-centered. They are not United and are not good at change.
Excessive persistence in the spiritual world and indifference to real life have also made India short-sighted, proud of it and lost 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 to make drinks and cow dung is used to make cakes. It is said that this is a gift from God, and many wonderful things, just to mention a few, have simply refreshed our understanding of the earth.
This shows how amazing the Indian diet is. Not only the taste is "strange", but also the shape is very spicy. They are all sticky and full of reverie. Indians eat with their right hand and wash their bottoms with their left. You can't use it indiscriminately. When eating, the right hand will repeatedly stir the food evenly and then send it to the mouth. If you go to India, you will definitely taste bad, but Indians eat with relish.
Indians mainly eat vegetarian food. They believe that vegetarian diet can make people noble and holy, beneficial to health and cultivate their 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, with a pungent taste.
What you eat, Indians eat very well and cook very well. We can only marvel that Sam is really amazing!
The characteristic of Indian diet is that it seems rich and colorful, but in fact it is very single, with all kinds of seasonings and sauces. I have watched the production of various Indian cuisines countless times, and I have the impression that there is no brain and no heart, only a mechanical sense of ceremony. Because of lack of culture (the author always thinks that India's civilization and culture are very low, except Buddhism, which has declined in India), lack of understanding of ingredients, lack of understanding of the relationship between ingredients and people, lack of technical adjustment in all aspects of cooking, and lack of cultural guidance for upgrading and integration, most Indian dishes are unreasonable, unhealthy, inflexible in cooking methods and procedures, unable to effectively use ingredients and energy, and unattractive and unhealthy.
But India's injuries are like chemical corrosion injuries, disgusting, but superficial, but the injuries in the West and Japan are stabbing and fatal!
I have never been to India, and my understanding of India was introduced by friends who have been to India through the media and the Internet. After listening to it 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, in order to cater to the Indian habit of eating by hand, Indian food is made into paste, which should be true. In our real life, Indian food is similar in color and shape to vomit and excrement. They mixed the batter 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 have come to a conclusion that all ignorance, stupidity, ignorance and shamelessness are in India!
Indian food, like Indians, has a high degree of regional specificity and diversity, and is greatly influenced by Indian history, conquerors, trading partners and Indian religious and cultural customs.
Characteristics of Indian food
Although Indian cuisine has strong regional characteristics, there are some similarities on the whole. For example, dishes all over India are highly dependent on curry to match meat, vegetables or cheese. The mixing of spices, the fluidity of soup and ingredients all depend on regional preferences.
Generally speaking, people in southern India prefer rice to people in other areas.
All local dishes love beans. Indian dishes may use more beans than any other dishes in the world: red lentils, Bangladesh beans, cajanus cajan or peas, black mung beans and mung beans. Cooking methods are also varied, such as whole beans, breaking, or grinding 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 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 dishes in some specific 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, tomatoes, potatoes and peppers brought by Portuguese businessmen have been deeply integrated into Indian cuisine. Arab merchants brought coffee and Ferula.
India's conquest period also greatly influenced the development of its cooking. 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 are Biryanis, samosa and pulaos.
Britain introduced soup and tea to India, but it had little effect on Indian cuisine. On the contrary, the colonial process integrated 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 diverse, and their cultural characteristics are largely influenced by religious and regional characteristics. Ayurvedic doctrine emphasizes the balance of 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 belief in Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism or Buddhism. Therefore, most Indian dishes do not include meat. In addition, Hindus believe in cows, which are sacred, while Muslims think pork is unclean, so they never eat it. According to different religious beliefs, certain ingredients are deliberately subtracted from dishes in specific areas to conform to religious rules, which also imposes various norms and restrictions on Indians who believe in this religion.
Simply sum up the Indian personality characteristics as follows:
Maharashtra and Mumbai: interesting, unruly 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 excitement and add complexity and diversity, but their unity in nationality, piety to religion and loyalty to the country is admirable.