The Republic of India, abbreviated as "India", covers an area of about 2.98 million square kilometers and has a population of 1.324 billion, and is a unified multi-ethnic state composed of more than 100 ethnic groups.
Both China and India are ancient civilizations, and although they are separated by mountains, the two civilizations have been in contact with each other for thousands of years.
1. The Indus civilization was one of the first civilizations in the world to enter the agricultural civilization and settled society. The Indus River is not in India, but in the territory of present-day Pakistan, and its source is located in the territory of Geji County, Ali Region, Tibet, China, and the source stream is called Bangguogong. Isn't that incredible?
2. The Mahabharata (between the 3rd and 5th centuries BC) is one of the two most famous Sanskrit epics of ancient India, which records a "nuclear weapon" called "Agnya", "the fire produced by the explosion is like tens of thousands of suns, the earth is scorched red, the birds are burned to death by the flames, the river boils, and none of the explosions survive." The Mohenzo Darrow site (5,000 years old) detected a nuclear explosion and discovered the same material. Isn't that incredible?
3. There is no such thing as Hinduism, but a general term for the various belief systems that have emerged from the six ancient Indian philosophies to this day. It is a religion that encompasses different kinds of knowledge or values, not a rigid, common belief. Isn't that incredible?
4. No one has not seen the movie "Avatar", right? Avatar comes from the Sanskrit transliteration of अवतार, meaning avatar, which is commonly known as avatar. The most famous of these is Vishnu's Ten Incarnations (Trumpets), often incarnated as different images to punish evil and promote goodness and save mankind from danger. The artificial blue-skinned monkeys in the Avatar movie are actually an avatar.
Vishnu
5. The sacred mountain of Hinduism, Mount Kailash, is the residence of Shiva and is the center of the world, but not in India but in China, in Puran County, Tibet, China. At the same time, Jainism believes that the mountain was the place of enlightenment of its ancestor, Rishapa Nat (Ṛṣabha-nātha). Isn't that incredible?
Shiva
6. The caste system in India divides people into four different classes: Brahmins, Shaktis, Vedas, and Sudras, but there are actually thousands of real castes. It is not necessarily that brahmins are of high status, and the caste system in India actually operates on their own closed social networks. When a Brahmin arrives in a new region, he loses his position because his social network no longer exists.
7. India may have more than 200 million dalits, or 15% of India's total population. They can only engage in very lowly industries, related to death, excrement, blood stains. In India, there are reports of a woman being taken to the river by her in-laws to strip naked and sent to a temple for torture and repentance simply for giving a Dalit (a Dalit) a glass of water.
8. Buddhism originated in India, but why is it no longer seen in India? After Buddhism reached the stage of esotericism, it had in fact abandoned its philosophical exploration and could not put forward much living ideas; assimilating into Hinduism, its independent existence status was naturally gradually lost; it was related to the invasion of Islam.
9. Kolkata is the only city in India with Chinatown, and from 1940 to 1945, the number of Chinese living in Kolkata reached as many as 100,000, mostly Hakka. After the 1962 conflict, some Chinese were sent to Rajasthan concentration camps, and some again fled. Unlike Chinatowns in Western countries, Kolkata's Chinatown has a unique and long history, a dusty place full of memories.
10. The RMB banknotes are printed in 5 languages, but the Indian rupee banknotes are printed in 17 languages. These languages include: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi , Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Isn't that incredible?
11. Most Chinese believe that Indians eat with their left hand and eat with their right hand. Although the public health conditions in India are extremely poor, most people actually rinse with water, not with their left hands.
12. India is a big agricultural country, with the world's largest production of millet, bananas, mangoes, lemons, ginger, betel nuts, papayas and jute.
13. The popular "Indian flying cake" in China is also available in India, but it is called Rumali roti, which is not common in India. Maybe it's two different foods, just a coincidence. Buns are found in India and are called steamed buns (momo).
Rumali bread
14. Indian Chinese food is very popular in India, such as Sichuan fried noodles (Schzewan Chowmien) and Manchurian soup (Manchurian Soup). According to relevant surveys, in 36 major cities in India, 37.6% of restaurants can provide Chinese food. Isn't that incredible? Indian Chinese food red is very important, so the Indians invented The Schezwan Sauce and manchurian Sauce. What exactly it tastes like, only you can taste it yourself.
Sichuan fried noodles
Manchurian soup
15. Indians think that non-stick rice is good rice, so boil porridge with Indian rice for an hour, and still the water is water and the rice is rice. Isn't that incredible?
16. India has the largest arable land in the world and can be planted three seasons a year with plenty of sunshine, but why is food production much lower than that of China? Who's going to tell me?
Topography of India
Topography of China
17. Tata Group is the largest group of companies in India, jaguar Land Rover is part of the Indian Tata Group.
18. In Hindi, the Chinese is "चीनी", and another meaning is "white sugar". So for Indians Chinese sweet.
19. In 1938, the Indian Parliament sent a medical team to support China's "War of Resistance", and the Indian doctor Ke Dihua died in China at a young age due to overwork. Everyone remembers Bethune, but few people know about this Indian doctor.
Today, a statue of Dr. Ke Dihua stands tall in the Martyrs' Cemetery of the North China Military Region in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. In 2014, during Xi's visit to India, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Friendship Award was presented to Ke Dihua's family representatives.
20. On 1 April 1950, the Republic of India established diplomatic relations with China and was the first non-socialist country to establish diplomatic relations with China.
You and I live in prejudice, and people's lives are to get out of prejudice. Read thousands of books to get out of the temporal prejudice, and walk thousands of miles out of the spatial bias. --Luo Xiang
May life be like a summer flower,
Death is like lightning,
Still my favorite.
Although I was not as good as a summer flower,
But I would like to die as quickly as lightning!
-- Tagore
Text: Xiao Ao
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