Social customs
Emphasis is placed on the splendor of dress and the updating of styles. Women regard make-up and beauty treatments as a necessity of life. They have a strong sense of time, plan their work well, and follow the principle of "ladies first". Customary handshake, have a certain social status of people to kiss the hand salute. Young girls often curtsy. Between men and women, women and men, and the habit of kissing on the cheek. Do not want others to ask about personal matters in socializing. The giving of perfume to women and the giving of gifts at the first meeting are frowned upon.
Taboos
Most are Catholic. Avoid "13" and "Friday". Avoid yellow and dark green. Avoid peacocks and cranes. Chrysanthemums, azaleas and walnuts are considered ominous. Loves arts and entertainment.
Dietary characteristics
French people will eat, but also pay attention to eat. French cuisine is popular all over the world. French people like to eat snails and frog legs, the most expensive dish is foie gras. Like to drink wine. French food is characterized by freshness and tenderness. French people also like Chinese food very much.
Clothing
French fashion in the world enjoys a great reputation, the selection of materials, excellent, bold design, production technology, so that the French fashion has been leading the world fashion trends. In Paris, there are 2,000 fashion stores, the owners of the slogan is: "fashion does not sell the second". And in the street, almost can not see two women wearing exactly the same clothing. Currently the most famous haute couture are: "Jilaijie", "Barangay Shaka", "Jiwangxi", "Chanel ", "Dior", "Cardin" and St. Laurent". In recent years, especially notable is the Parisian women's dresses, its style. The newness of the styles is difficult to see in other countries. The French are the smallest part of their income to wear the European countries, the French people are generally very aware of the appreciation of clothing, but also accept the cheaper and less elaborate imitations.
Small Animals
Today's French families, the small animals are doubly favored, not to spend a lot of money to buy feed. More than half of the families keep a variety of small animals, the total number of heads of more than 30 million. 1/3 of the families keep dogs, the number of dogs has nearly 40,000. Various dog hospitals and dog clothing stores are commonplace. Animals not only bring fun to the French people, but also cause certain disasters. In France, there are more than 500,000 cases of dog injuries every year.
Etiquette
France is a civilized and polite country. Being modest and polite to women is a proud French tradition. The French meet and greet each other, there is no more common way than shaking hands. However, when shaking hands, one is to hold time should not be too long, and secondly, there is no need to hold people's hands vigorously shaking. Generally, women extend their hands to men first, and older people extend their hands to younger people first. Superiors to subordinates reach out first.
Kisses
France was the first country to recognize kisses as a sign of affection. The French have strict boundaries for kisses: they are sticking to the face or cheeks when they see their friends, relatives and colleagues who have met after a long time, and elders are kissing their foreheads to their juniors, and only kissing on the mouth or kissing between lovers and couples.
Wedding customs
Before getting engaged, the ceremony is simple, and the woman's parents usually invite the man's parents and siblings to a banquet, and other relatives, or even one or two close friends, may be invited to attend at the same time. Weddings have been gradually simplified, but they are still the grandest of family festivals, with a solemn and sacred color. Weddings are celebrated by the mayor or one of his deputies, customarily on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The wedding is celebrated by the mayor or one of his deputies. After the wedding feast. In some places in rural France, a property marriage contract is signed and notarized before the wedding. The marriage contract should be written in all the property of the fiancé and the couple, the fiancée's dowry and the fiancé's estate. Marriage age commemoration has become a festive custom in folklore. A woman may remarry after 300 days of widowhood or after 300 days of declared separation from her husband, while there is no time limit for men.
Spirit's Day
Spirit's Day is celebrated on November 1 every year, which is equivalent to the Qingming Festival in China. It is customary for the French to go to cemeteries on this day to pay tribute to the memory of martyrs who died for their country. St. Catherine's Day Paris "older young women" holiday. Every year on November 25, the day, over 25 years of age and not yet married girls to the statue of Caterina to lay a bouquet of flowers, and then to the big boutiques to dance, drinking and revelry, and finally chose a most beautiful girl as the queen of the festival.
Dining habits
The French regard cooking as an art, and French cuisine is indeed a global phenomenon. Three meals a day in France are usually organized in this way. Breakfast: bread, coffee, hot chocolate; Lunch: Lunch is the most important meal for the French, usually around 1:00 p.m., and dinner after nine o'clock. The French social meal generally lasts more than two hours, the beginning of the first appetizer, then fish or spaghetti, and then the main course, the main course is accompanied by a lot of lettuce, salads, cheeses, fruits, and sometimes sweet snacks, after-dinner coffee is also indispensable.
Spain and its people
Basic overview of Spain
Spain is a country of romance and passion, its history, its art, and its temperament continue to attract curious people. Bullfighting, dancing, guitar.
① Geography:
Spain is located in the southwest of Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic Ocean (Mar Cantabrico) and the Mediterranean Sea (Mar Mediterraneo) shipping lanes of the throat of the mountainous (Cantab, Llanos, Goledo and Guadarrama and other mountain ranges), multi-river (Ebro R. Ebro, Duero, Tahoe R. Duero, Tahoe R. Ebro, Tahoe R. Duero, Tahoe R. Tahoe, Tahoe, Tahoe, Tahoe R. Tahoe). Duero, R. Taje, and R. Gualguivir), and high source countries. The central Meseta high source area covers about 60% of the country and has a continental climate. The northern and northwestern coastal zone has a maritime temperate climate. The south and southeast have a Mediterranean subtropical climate. Most of the area receives between 500 and 1,500 millimeters of precipitation. The south is almost frost-free all year round. The total area of Spain is more than 500,000 square kilometers. The population is more than 38.71 million. Most are Castilians Castilla, minority Catalans Catalu?0?9a, Basques Valencia and Galicia Galicia. the official language is Spanish. 94% of the inhabitants envelope Catholic.
②Political and economic environment:
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, with the throne being hereditary to Juan Carlos and his direct descendants. The king is the head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces. The government is a one-party government of the Socialist Labor Party (PSOE), which is overseen by Parliament. Madrid is the capital of Spain. Spain is a relatively developed capitalist industrial country. Because of the lack of power and industrial raw materials, the economy is more dependent on foreign countries,
The oil, iron ore, coking coal, etc. needed are imported. Exports include small cars, steel, cement, ships, textiles, mercury, fertilizers, alcohol, olive oil, etc. The European ****similarities and the United States are Spain's main trading partners.
Spanish cities and places of interest
① Madrid
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is a famous ancient city in Europe. Madrid is located in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, Guadarrama Mountain towers over it to the north, located in the high source of the Meseta, 670 meters above sea level, is the capital of Europe's highest terrain. Manzaneros River R. Manzanalis flows around the city. The city is well connected, with many lakes and shady trees and a pleasant climate. The center of Madrid is formed by the triangle of "Puerta del Sol, Plaza del Centro and Plaza de Espa?a". "Puerta del Sol" is the central square of Madrid, from which radiate out avenues in all directions, forming its dense urban structure like a spider web. In the middle of the square flower beds, erected on the head of a climbing in the berry tree on the robust brown bear sculpture, which is the city of Madrid micro. This sturdy and robust brown bear shows the indomitable and stubborn character of the people of Madrid. From the Puerta del Sol to the streets in all directions can see many ancient and medieval palaces, churches, sculptures, these buildings and works of art have Gothic, Arabesque, but also many forms of convergence in one. Especially the frescoes inlaid with various stones and glass are brightly colored and very beautiful.
"Columbus Square" - the navigator Columbus statue is located in the center of the square, pointing in the direction of South America, seems to be like the spirit of his discovery of the Bahamas County Island in October 1492, the round fountain surrounded by the statue, spraying a few meters high water columns, the night mapping out red, green and purple At night, it reflects red, green and purple lights, which is very attractive. There is a Columbus Museum built underground for people to visit.
"Plaza de Espa?a" - Plaza de Espa?a is home to a statue of the famous 17th century Spanish writer Cervantes and two of the main characters from his famous novel Don Quixote. Quixote" in his famous novel "Don Quixote" in the two main characters - the Lamanite knight Don. Don Quixote and his faithful servant Sancho Panza. Pansa.
"Central Plaza" - The Grand Plaza in the center of the city is a 16th- and 17th-century Renaissance building, completed in 1619. The main Christian church near Piazza Comillas is also a Renaissance building (built in 1535). The present Municipal Museum, the Library, the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs near Piazza dei Provincia and the Segovia Bridge over the Manzaneros River are all late 17th-century Baroque buildings. The General Post Office building, built between 1907 and 1917, was the first luxury building of the 20th century.
"Prado Museum" - Madrid **** has more than 30 museums, including the world-famous painting exhibition hall - Prado Museum has The Prado Museum is one of the world's most famous exhibition halls for paintings and drawings, and is known as the "treasure house of European classical art". The museum has 30 exhibition halls and collects the world's most precious works of Spanish art and more than 3,000 works by famous Italian painters from the 15th to 19th centuries. In addition, there are many materials from prehistoric times and relics from the Roman, Moorish and Middle Ages.
"Palace of the Orient"-The Palace of the Orient, one of the most complete and exquisite palaces in the world, is situated on a hill on the left bank of the Manzaneros River, west of Madrid. The Palace of the Orient is one of the most complete and exquisite palaces in the world. Its majesty in the British capital of Buckingham Palace above, can be compared with the French Palace of Versailles. It was built in accordance with the most popular architectural style of the 18th century. Its appearance has a typical French style, majestic; interior decoration is authentic Italian mood, luxury absolute theory. It is a jewel of the Spanish tourism industry, the palace's large and magnificent halls, beautifully furnished, so that visitors marveled at. Tapestry Pavilion contains the world's rarest and most valuable large tapestries. In addition, the Palace of the Orient also has a collection of 45 clocks and watches from various countries, which are still very accurate.
② Barcelona
Located in the northeast of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of Barcelona, is the second largest city in Spain, the "Iberian Peninsula of the Rose of Pearls," said before 1833, Spain's richest region of Catalonia's capital. The beaches are flat and wide, and the climate is favorable for people. In the old district, there are the remains of ancient Roman walls and 6th century palaces. The Gothic Catholic Church stands in the center of the old town and contains the crypt of St. Eulalia, the patron saint of Barcelona, where a white marble coffin is placed. There is also the Plaza de la Reina (14th to 16th century) and the Plaza de la Paz (near the harbor). In the harbor there is a replica of a sailing ship from Columbus' discovery of the New World, and the Columbus Monument in the plaza overlooks the harbor.
"Flower Market Street," the largest flower market, is connected by Peace Square and Ramblas Street in the center of the city's Catalunya Square. Catalonia Square has a stone statue of the goddess and a fountain. West of the city's Spanish Square, "Bright Spring", Montevideo Park's cascading waterfalls, water and light into the night. 14th century remains of the city's largest Spanish "Holy Family Church", every Sunday at noon there are folk dance performances.
Barcelona is the cultural center of Spain. There are the University of Barcelona (founded in 1430), the Liceo Theater and a variety of museums (Picasso Museum, Catalan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Wine, Spanish Village) more than 20. The rose show and bullfighting and the largest international trade show are very attractive four times a year.
Suburbs of the Costa Brava, is the Mediterranean coast of the famous resort.
③ Seville;
Located in the southwest of Spain, it is a famous cultural city with a history of more than two thousand years. The beautiful gypsy music, flamenco dance and bullfighting are famous throughout Europe. The Tower of Gold (12-sided, 30-meter-high curved top), is located on the banks of the Rio Grande. Because the Rio Grande is the only inland river that is passable in Spain, Columbus sailed into the sea from here. Gothic Seville Cathedral (built in the 15th century), is the most beautiful church in Spain, allegedly after St. Peter's in Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral in London, in the world's Christian churches in the third place (slender steeple, five chancel nave and ten side chapels and ancient enclosure).
④ Balearic Islands (La.Baleares);
Lansalote Island (the northernmost point of La.Baleares) geothermal water to cook lamb, Las.parmas port small plane to go to 50 minutes to Lansalote Island. The whole island is very small and rainy, but everywhere bananas green space, teach side swimming, ocean fishing fleet.
Spanish customs
① Spain's folk festival
Spanish people in the "New Year's Eve", the whole family gathered together to treat the 12 o'clock church bells ringing at 12 o'clock to eat 12 grapes, which symbolizes that the New Year of every month, all the best wishes.
Spain's "Mérida", every year in early October, is the Gypsy Women's Day (intermarriage within the tribe, free to find, but subject to parental consent, the wedding ceremony presided over by the matriarch, cut the bride and groom's back).
"Faye Festival" is one of the largest festivals in Spain, every year from March 12 to 19, in the eastern part of Spain on the Mediterranean Sea, the ancient city of Valencia held a fire in the image of realistic paper shapes (locally known as the Faye), in order to expose the social phenomenon of evil. During this period from all over Spain and the world to visit a lot of people, to the 19th activities reached a climax, from morning to night, the streets of the crowd, singing and dancing, in the afternoon, held in the city hall square selection of awards, people dancing and revelry, 12 midnight began to burn the city's paper shape, a huge paper shape in the burning fire, gradually turned into ashes.
Spain can be called "olive kingdom", olive groves, rolling hills. The olive fruit, olive oil (Aceite de olivo) is the world's largest. In addition to food, applied to the whole body of the ancient health and beauty techniques have been used to this day (bodybuilders also used).
"Spanish bullfighting", originated from Spain's ancient religious activities (kill the bull for the gods sacrifice). 13th century Spain King Alfonso X began this sacrifice to the gods evolved into a bull race show (real bullfighting show is the middle of the 18th century). Now there are more than 300 bullfighting stadiums in Spain (the largest is the Ventas bullring in Madrid, which can accommodate 25,000 people). Every year from March to November is the Spanish bullfighting festival, usually Sunday and Thursday for the bullfighting day (using the weight of 4,000 kilograms of purebred African bulls).
"Spanish cockfighting" is even more peculiar, a 3 square meters of round cage, put two roosters fighting each other. Cockerel weight shall not differ 1 two, each fight 30 minutes. Outside the cage is surrounded by more than 200 gamblers each bet on a chicken to train a chicken, it takes a year, a year can fight 8 games, trained cockfighting can be sold for up to 500 U.S. dollars, but also a large number of exports.
②Spanish life and etiquette
Spain is an ancient civilized country, civilized, polite. Warm, hospitable, kind-hearted people
Life, housing (farm villas, swimming pools), matriarchal society (women hold the home, many children, hygiene, the girl becomes a housewife personality differences - men fixated on the money clip, 10 o'clock at night to go home story), birthdays, Bar Mitzvah invitations to the story, to earn a dollar to spend two dollars, there is no red-eye. Wine bar, body odor, smell of olive oil (Aceite de olivo) in food. Poor sense of time (Asta ma?0?9an
Responders: yl661166 | Level 2 | 2011-6-7 11:20
History
Africa is the place where the evolutionary history of mankind has evolved from the Archaeopteryx, to the forest apes, the Lamar apes, the "fully-formed man" -Nergans, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and up to modern humans have existed on the continent. Anthropologists have discovered the earliest fossils of "fully formed man" in Africa. These discoveries led anthropologists, including Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, to conclude that Africa was the birthplace of mankind.
Archaeological material proves that the peoples of Africa created and developed glorious ancient civilizations at an early age. In ancient times, when the homelands of Western colonialists were still in the stage of glacial sealing, there was already a boiling life on the African continent. At that time, the Nile Valley was still an uninhabitable swamp, and the now uninhabited Sahara Desert was a forest and grassland with rivers running through it. About 10,000 years ago, the climate of North Africa changed drastically, and the savannah gradually dried out and turned into a desert.
The Nile Valley is one of the cradles of the world's ancient civilizations. Egypt on the lower reaches of the Nile is one of the world's four major ancient civilizations. Egypt as early as five thousand BC appeared in agriculture, know how to cultivate grains and build water conservancy. Egyptians developed astronomy very early, as early as 4241 BC, Egyptians developed a fairly accurate human earliest solar calendar. Solar calendar 365 days a year, divided into three seasons, a season of four months, 30 days a month, the last month plus five days as religious holidays. It has an error of only about a quarter of a day per year from the year of return. Ancient Egypt created hieroglyphics in the 35th century B.C., knew how to calculate the length of the sides of a square and the volume of a truncated angular cone in the 19th century B.C., and the Egyptians were able to determine pi to be 3-16 with near precision in about the 21st century B.C.
Ancient Egypt also made great achievements in the arts of architecture, sculpture and painting. The magnificent pyramids and sphinxes standing near Cairo on the banks of the Nile River are the masterpieces of ancient Egypt around the 27th century B.C.; they are wonders in the history of human architecture and monuments to the outstanding wisdom and hard work of the laboring people of ancient Egypt.
In the middle reaches of the Nile River in the area of the present-day Sudan, there was a Kush Empire in the 16th century B.C., which had developed agriculture, iron smelting and textile industry, and was one of the most affluent and prosperous countries in the world during the ancient times. Its capital, Mero?, was the largest ironmaking center south of the Mediterranean, and has been called the "Birmingham of Ancient Africa" by Western archaeologists.
What is now northern Ethiopia was an important center of ancient African civilization. Around the first century A.D. in the Aksum Kingdom emerged there, the fourth century had reached a high degree of prosperity, the domestic exchange of goods has developed to the extent that the use of gold, silver, copper coins, the words created at that time are still basically still in use, as high as 60 feet of the Aksum monoliths and the Lalibela rock churches are world-famous as one of the wonders of Africa's history.
The Berbers, who inhabited the Maghreb in ancient times, were engaged in farming from the end of the Neolithic period and built primitive water facilities, and copper tools were made around 500 BC. The Berbers founded the kingdoms of Mauritania and Numidia in BC, leaving behind a large number of petroglyphs and artifacts.
Sub-Saharan Africans began to develop from hunting and gathering wild plants to domesticating animals and cultivating crops around 2000 BC. More than 250 of the world's crops originated in sub-Saharan Africa.
West Africa is the birthplace of most African agriculture. Sorghum, oil palm, etc. are inherent in West Africa, and some of the statues and cave paintings left by history in the Sahara Desert are a reflection of the idyllic life of West Africans who first grazed their livestock and then lived in the fields. West Africa in the first few thousand years B.C. appeared refined terracotta sculptures, around the third century B.C. into the Iron Age, there have been Ghana, Mali, Songhai and other strong ancient empires.
Remains of the Iron Age can be seen all over south-central Africa, as well as the ruins of ancient terraces and artificial irrigation works. The ruins of the ancient city of Ngaruka, where thousands of houses were built, and the ruins of the Great Zimbabwean Stone Buildings, built around 500 A.D., are symbols of the ancient civilizations of Central and Southern Africa. In Central and Southern Africa, there were some famous countries, such as the Kingdom of Monomotapa, which had developed agriculture, mining and foreign trade, the Kingdom of the Congo, which had established a highly centralized system, the Kingdom of Kuba, which had achieved a high level of carving and artwork, and the Kingdom of Buganda, which had developed the social division of labor.
The east coast of Africa, bordering on the Indian Ocean, has been engaged in a prosperous trade since ancient times, trading iron and salt as early as before the Era. in the first half of the 15th century, the east coast of Africa had developed to the point where it was able to send emissaries across the ocean to visit China.
Africa is not just a "place of lions" as some Western scholars have portrayed it, but a highly civilized continent in ancient times. Africa has made significant contributions to the development of world civilization.
Africa is a continent rich in material and history. However, since the invasion of Africa by Western colonialists in the 15th century, more than 400 years of colonial rule have brought deep disasters to the African people. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Western colonizers trafficked more than 20 million black Africans to the Americas as slaves. Those slaves were subjected to inhuman abuse, and the vast majority of them died after less than 15 years. The Western Powers also seized African land and resources by force of arms, thus completely dividing Africa and establishing a barbaric and cruel colonial rule. Before the First World War, all the countries in Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, were colonized by the West in an area of more than 30 million square kilometers. The killings of the African people and the plundering of Africa's wealth by the colonialists and imperialists are too numerous to mention.
The people of Africa fought a long and arduous armed struggle against the invaders and created countless heroic achievements. Before the First World War, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ghana, Algeria, Guinea, Mali, the Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, and South Africa and many other countries in East Africa broke out against the aggressor's large-scale armed struggle and armed uprising. After a major war, the people of Africa rekindled the flame of their struggle against imperialism and for independence. The anti-fascist struggle of the Abyssinian people in East Africa had shaken the whole world, and Egypt in North Africa had won its independence. Before the Second World War, there were only three independent countries, Egypt, Ethiopia and Liberia.
After the end of the Second World War, the struggles of the African peoples against colonial rule and for national independence flourished and achieved major victories. by the end of the 1950s, the number of independent countries in Africa had increased to nine from the three that existed before the Second World War. In the 60's and 70's, the independence movement in Africa was in full swing, the national liberation movements of various countries united and cooperated with each other in support of each other, so that the vast majority of African colonies gained independence successively. the independence of Namibia in 1990 and the fall of white racist domination in South Africa in 1994 marked the liberation of all the African countries from the yoke of colonialism and racism except for a few small islands in the middle of the ocean.
The independence of African countries created conditions for the development and revitalization of the African region, while at the same time strengthening the power of developing countries and dealing a heavy blow to colonialism, imperialism and hegemony. Now, African countries are playing an increasingly important role in the world political arena and have become a force to be reckoned with in promoting world peace and development.
Responders: ヘルファック ゆアル | Grade 1 | 2011-6-7 17:28
(1) Social Etiquette
In interpersonal interactions, Poles are known around the world for their elegant demeanor, civilized language, and courteous manners.
When dealing with outsiders, Poles attach the utmost importance to address. Their habit is to use as much as possible some of the solemnity of the name. For men, the Poles must be called "Pan". For women, they have to call them "Pana" or "Pani".
When greeting someone in a social situation, Poles are sure to address them as "you". If they say "you" to each other, it probably means that they are very close and have known each other for a long time.
According to Polish custom, after being introduced to others on social occasions, one must take the initiative to shake hands with the other party as a salute, and at the same time to report their names, or else it is rude.
In Poland, the most common courtesies are the handshake and the hug. In Polish folklore, kissing is very common.
Generally speaking, the kiss is given to a married woman, and the best place to do it is indoors. In the ceremony, the man should take the woman's hand in both hands and kiss her fingertips or the back of the hand symbolically, if the kiss is loud or kissed above the wrist, are not norms.
(2) Dress etiquette
Polish people have their own distinctive way of dressing. In addition to wearing suits and dresses for formal occasions, the most important feature of Polish people's daily attire is that they emphasize individuality and distinctiveness.
(3) Catering etiquette Polish people's eating habits are similar to those of other Eastern European countries.
Specifically, Poles usually eat mainly pasta. They love baked, boiled and braised dishes with a lighter flavor.
In terms of beverages, they also love coffee and black tea. When drinking black tea, most Poles like to add a slice of lemon and don't like the tea to be too strong.
When it comes to dietary taboos, Poles do not eat mainly pickles and steamed dishes.
Polish people are very fond of inviting guests to dinner. When entertaining guests, Poles have quite a few preoccupations. First, it is taboo to have an odd number of diners. They recognize this as an unlucky omen.
The second is to eat a whole chicken, duck, goose, the Polish people usually pay attention to the youngest hostess present by the knife will be split, and then one by one to each guest in the food plate.
Thirdly, whether the meal is to their liking or not, the guests should try to eat a little bit more and express their gratitude for the host's hospitality.
Fourth, speaking with food in one's mouth is considered rude by Poles.
(4) Customary Taboos
Polish people generally love flowers. Among all flowers, they like pansies the most and have made them the national flower. When sending flowers to Poles, it is advisable to send a single bouquet consisting of one type of flower, but not a double bouquet.
The favorite animal of the Poles is the white eagle, which is designated as the national bird.
Polish public **** facilities are also marked with distinctive symbols. For example, the sign for men's restrooms is an inverted triangle, while the sign for women's restrooms is a circle.
There are three things to keep in mind when socializing with Poles.
First, Catholicism is a pervasive influence in Poland.
Secondly, the Poles have a very high sense of national pride, and it is most pleasing to them to mention the great men of Poland and their contributions to world civilization in their conversations.
Thirdly, Poles have a strong sense of propriety.
European countries-Poland
Respondent: Hot netizen | 2011-6-7 17:55
Australians are both Westerners and Easterners. They have a wide range of interests and enjoy sports such as surfing, windsurfing, horse racing, fishing, betting on horse races, boccia, Aussie Rugby and swimming, all of which have many enthusiasts. In the city of Sydney, if you can't swim, you will be the object of ridicule. In Darwin, a commercial port, swimming is usually done at night because of the high daytime temperatures. The city's citizens are particularly fond of beer, which is said to be second only to the city of Munich in the Federal Republic of Germany in terms of beer sales.
The Aborigines, who live in some of Australia's tribal jurisdictions, still protect their customs. They hunt for a living, and the "fly-away weapon" is their unique hunting weapon. Most of them still live in huts made of twigs and mud, surrounded by a cloth or kangaroo skin, and like to tattoo or paint their bodies in various colors.
On weekdays, only in the cheeks, shoulders and chest painted some yellow and white colors, in the war painted red on the body, after death painted white, festive ceremonies or festive songs and dances painted all over the body. Tattoos are mostly thick lines, some like raindrops, some like ripples, after the rite of passage of the indigenous people tattoos are not only decorative, but also used to attract the adoration of the opposite sex. In the carnival dance, people wearing colorful decorations on the head, body painting colorful tattoos, around the campfire dancing collectively. The dances are simple and reflect the hunting life.
The aboriginal tribes practiced a primitive distribution system, and totem worship was prevalent. Indigenous men into adulthood must undergo a series of harsh exercises and tests, and accept tribal traditions. The Aboriginal people have a special kind of funeral in Australia. Australia has a very special funeral. Once a person has died, the family gathered together, by the clan's special people to cut some stakes, painted with oil, planted around the grave, each pole is a symbol of the family of a dead or alive. The body is hung high in the air, and even if it has begun to rot it must wait until the next full moon before it can be removed and buried.
Finally, the family of the deceased has to perform a cleansing ceremony, that is, after the funeral, the family has to wait until it rains before they can go home, for which the family sometimes has to sleep in the open for several days or even weeks, because according to local custom, only rain can play the necessary cleansing role
.