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In daily life, people will avoid cow dung on the road, lest they accidentally step on cow dung or get contaminated with stench, but the world is so big that people living in India will not only pick up cow dung, but even carefully make it into "cow dung cakes".
Just seeing this, some people may feel a burst of disgust, is this kind of thing really useful? In fact, for Indians, cow dung cake is not only useful, but also has a great effect, many Indian merchants put cow dung cake on the website, and even sold it out of stock for a time.
Why is cow dung cake so popular among the Indian people? What is the value of cow dung cake made from cow dung? Does it have any unique effects and significance? Indians even love cow dung so much, so what kind of life do Indian cows live?
1. Popular cow dung cake
If you wander the country roads of India, you will be surprised to find that although cattle can be found everywhere, there is very little cow dung as the excrement of cows, and even if there is "fresh" cow dung, then it will not be long before an Indian will come and pick up the cow dung with his bare hands.
People who don't know the truth may think, wow, Indians really love the environment, but people who know a little bit will understand that Indians pick up cow dung for other purposes, if it is to care for the environment, then why don't Indians pick up the excrement of other animals?
The cow dung that the Indians picked up and brought home is not simply thrown into the dung pit and laughed at it, while the cow dung still has residual warmth, the Indians will mix it with hay by hand and then form a ball.
This is not the end of the story, in order to make the made cow dung balls easier to dry and easier to use in the future, people will also slam the cow dung balls on the wall, so that he can form one cake after another on the wall.
If you see an unidentified round flatbread on the walls of an Indian house, don't touch it with your hands, because it's an Indian cake made of hay and cow dung.
The reason why Indians are keen to collect cow dung is inseparable from the religion of India, India is a country where various religions are intermingled, but if you want to talk about which god has the most believers in the hearts of the Indian people, it should be Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma.
Among them, Shiva's mount is a milky white cow, just as the cow will selflessly help people with farming, the spirit of Shiva is selfless dedication, in line with the attitude of loving the house and Wu, people have gradually become fond of the cow.
Because of the excessive love of cows with this creature, it is impossible to kill cows, and in the eyes of many Indians, cows are full of treasures, including cow dung and cow urine, and after the cow dung is processed into cow dung cakes, the value of cow dung has increased a lot.
In India, a box of cow dung cake can even be sold for hundreds of rupees, converted into yuan, almost a box can be sold for 40 yuan, for Chinese who do not believe in Indian religion, this is simply incredible, after all, the raw materials are only cow dung and hay, sold for 40 yuan is enough to show the huge profits of this industry.
What's more, there are still many audiences for cow dung cakes, and the cow dung cakes sold on Indian websites are often sold out in a short time, so what is the role of cow dung cakes that are quite popular among the Indian people, Indians will never be able to buy cow dung cakes back and play with them.
Second, the multi-purpose cow dung cake
In our rural areas of China, many farmers are fueled by wood or dead grass, but in India it is different, they often use cow dung cake as fuel, the reason why they can do this, this has a lot to do with the composition of cow dung, cow dung has more organic matter and biogas, mixed with licorice, it is simply a burning weapon.
In addition to the effect of burning, the people of India have also found that when the cow dung cake is burned, it produces an unusually large smoke compared to ordinary wood, and this smoke can cleanse the mosquito-infested Indians in the summer.
Therefore, the second function of cow dung cake in the hands of the Indian people is to repel mosquitoes, and the smoke produced by the burning of cow dung cake is simply a ready-made mosquito coil for the Indian people, so the mosquito coil sellers in India can never imagine that it is the cow dung cake sellers who beat them.
In the summer, the feces excreted by animals in the wild will inevitably attract many mosquitoes and flies, these mosquitoes do not know how many bacteria there are, and the feces naturally ferment in the summer, and will be filled with a strong odor.
However, when the Indians made cow dung cakes, this difficulty was solved, and the dried cow dung was no longer attractive to mosquitoes, and because it had been dried, it could be stored for a long time.
To the disbelief of many, many Indians have described that the stench of cow dung mixed with hay disappears after drying, replaced by a fresh scent of grass, but as for whether it is true or not, those who have not actually smelled cow dung cakes do not know.
India is a country with a very developed economy, and in the extremely cold winter, or the extremely hot summer, many Indians do not have the ability to turn on the air conditioning at home, and this is when cow dung cake plays a role.
Because the made cow dung cake will be attached to the wall, which is equivalent to adding an insulation layer to the wall, in summer, it will be more difficult for the heat to enter the house through the absorption of the cow dung cake, and in winter, due to the warmth of the cow dung cake outside the wall, it will be more difficult to lose the heat in the house.
For Indians, cow dung cake is simply an important material to ensure that they are warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is no wonder that people have more respect for cows, not to mention, not everyone in India can have a large number of cow dung cakes.
If they want to own cow dung cakes, they have to have more or less one cow in their home, and the amount of cow dung that a cow can excrete is limited.
If there is a large number of cow dung cakes outside the house, then the number of cattle raised by the family must also be large, and the value of a cow is expensive, which is enough to show that the economic conditions of the family are also at the upper middle level in India.
Just as the Chinese people will also have some choices about the trees that serve as firewood, sometimes pine wood, etc., because the cooked food will be more or less contaminated with the aroma of firewood.
And the people of India also feel the same way, some of the food they cook requires the use of cow dung cake as a burning material, only then the cooked food will have the aroma of cow dung cake, and the taste will be more beautiful.
However, there is no shortage of religious fanatics in India, and when other Indian people only use cow dung cakes as fuel to repel mosquitoes and keep their houses warm, these fanatical religious people have been able to eat cow dung cakes with a smile on their faces, and at the same time they will thank God for the blessings in their hearts.
I have to say that this is really the world's big, and there are no surprises, but when I learned that cow dung cakes have such a fanatical audience and love in India, many people can't help but wonder in their hearts, even cow dung has such a good treatment, so what kind of life does India's cow live?
3. Cattle as they like in India
"Gomata" is the name of the Indian people for the cow, in their eyes, the cow is selfless dedication, the cow is also industrious, and the cow will also bring countless wealth to the people, so that the family and society are more prosperous.
It is for this reason that although the mount of Shiva, the main god of India, is a white cow, the people of India also love the house and the cow, and are kind to all the cows, especially the family-raised farming cattle.
For these farming cattle raised by Indians, the food will be carefully prepared by the Indian family, as long as it is not during working hours, these cattle can go wherever they want, whether they want to go for a walk on the road or want to go for a walk in the fields, this is the freedom of Indian cattle.
Even if the crops were already planted in the field at that time, the cattle would inevitably trample on the crops when they entered the field, reducing the yield of the crops, and the Indians would not forcefully whip the cattle to stop them, after all, in their opinion, these are the freedom of the cows, right?
And when these cows are old, they can no longer bear the farming of Indian families, and at this time, Indians will not kill cattle for meat, they will release the cattle into nature, let them come from nature, and return to nature.
It is precisely because of the Indian people's penchant for releasing cattle back into the wild that there are so many cattle in the wild in India that they sometimes enter the fields in groups and eat in the fields.
Either the Indians can only build high guardrails outside the fields, or the Indians will ask people to guard the fields 24 hours a day, or they can only let the cattle do evil, hoping that they will eat less crops.
If the cow is obedient, then the Indians will simply drive it, the cow will leave the crop field and go to other places, if the cow is irritable, in the face of the Indian people's drive, there may even be an attack, at this time, whether the cow is a wild bull rush, or iron hooves trample people, the religious Indian people can only flee the desert.
The Indian people's love for cows is almost to the point of fanaticism, which is not only reflected in the reuse of cow dung, but also in the cow urine, which is also taken by Indians when the cow is excreted.
In their view, cow urine is also a sacred drink, insist on drinking it every day, then it will definitely achieve the purpose of driving away evil spirits, curing diseases, and protecting the body, which is not alarmist, the last prime minister of India took cow urine as a drink he must have.
Around the cow dung cake sold on the website out of stock, Indians love cow dung, more people finally have a clear understanding, but for Indians, cow dung cake is just a means of using cow dung, in India, cow dung can also be used to make toothpaste, soap, only you can't think of it, no cow dung can't do.
In India, where the economy is not developed, their love for cow dung cakes, in addition to religious beliefs, seems to be a realistic factor also exists, after all, a cow dung cake can achieve the purpose of repelling mosquitoes, and can also be used as firewood, reducing the loss of time to pick up firewood, but also to keep warm, reduce the use of electricity.
If you don't want to buy it from the website, you can simply pick up the cow dung near your home and make it, which is also extremely convenient and very low-cost, and can save a lot of money.
In fact, in the past, people in China occasionally picked up dried cow dung for fuel, but mixed it with hay by hand, formed a ball, and slapped into cakes, which the Chinese would not do.
I don't know if you've ever been to India? Have you ever bought cow dung cake from a website? Have you ever seen cow dung cake neatly outside the house, one after another? As for the taste of cow dung cake, is it really as Indians say, not only does it not smell, but has a faint aroma? You are welcome to leave your own opinions in the comment area and share your opinions with everyone.