The world is baffled by strange customs

Due to the influence of history and culture, festival customs vary widely around the world. This article will take you into the world family to understand the strange and unprecedented customs around the world! I promise to open your eyes!

Wayne Chicken Festival, Nebraska, USA

These dancers dressed as chickens are shirtless but unassuming, preparing to strut at the Wayne Chicken Festival. Every summer, this Nebraska town holds a colorful celebration with the theme of chicken. These include the world's most spectacular chicken dance, an auction of chicken works made of cement by local artists, and a chicken wing eating competition that may be a little sad for the festival's protagonist, the chicken.

Austria's "Schleicheaufen" Ghost Festival

When the five-year "Schleicheaufen" festival comes, a parade of slackers, savages and other oddly dressed monsters will appear on the streets of Telfs, Austria. They fill the streets and alleys, making the town a mysterious world. The festival was held before the beginning of the Lent fast and is documented to date in the 15th century, but it is also likely an older ritual that existed in the Tyrol region in pre-Christian prehistory.

Thailand Vegetarian Festival

The Thai Vegetarian Festival targets meat lovers, and Chinese participants will hold ceremonies in Phuket. This Taoist event began in 1825, when Chinese immigrants praised the gods for saving them from an infectious disease, while also attributed their escape to vegetarian food. Today, this nine-day event is widely circulated among believers. Out of piety, they will pierce holes in their bodies, making them more elaborate than ordinary piercing decorations.

Ancient customs in Honduras

The custom in Honduras is even more bizarre: "selling daughter-in-law". In some villages and towns in northwest Honduras, men can "divorce" their wives and auction them at the market, or exchange them with other people's wives. The purchased wife can be auctioned again. This somewhat scary folk custom is also a Mayan legacy. Back then, the Mayans killed all captured male prisoners to worship the gods, while the women could be used as wives or exchanged. There is nothing the government can do about this deep-rooted custom. Nowadays, according to the law, such transactions can only be held at specified "people's fairs" and can only be held every three months.

strange customs in Cambodia

In Cambodia, rural women generally get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and men at the age of twenty. The marriage customs are also very unique-many countries today have anti-smoking actions, but young girls in Cambodia must learn to smoke. According to tradition, when women reach the age of six or seven, their parents prepare pipes for them and begin to teach them to smoke. Parents believe that smoking can help children understand the bitter, spicy, sweet and sour tastes of people's daily production and life. Especially strong cigarettes can make people feel refreshed and they will not get lost no matter how far they travel in the vast forest. By the age of fifteen or sixteen, if young girls cannot smoke, they will be considered unbeautiful or even vulgar.

Strange customs in Togo

If you see a tall cloth shed on the street of Lomé, the capital of Togo, where men, women and children in colorful costumes sit around, singing, dancing and laughing endlessly, don't think this is a party or a street performance, because this is a traditional funeral for the Ewe people of Togo. The Ewi people believe that death means that the person's soul has returned to the gods and ancestors, and should be celebrated rather than sad. When someone dies, nearby relatives and friends will come first, build cloth sheds across the street on the busiest street next to the house, and inform distant relatives and friends to come as soon as possible.

Indigenous people in Bolivia celebrate the fighting festival and it is common for blood to be spilled

In Meca, a small town on the Bolivian plateau, hundreds of indigenous Quechua tribes gathered in a large circle to watch two women fight. This is a wonderful scene when the indigenous people of Quechua, Bolivia celebrated the Fighting Festival. The Fighting Festival is a traditional festival among indigenous people in Bolivia and has a long history among some indigenous tribes in the Andes Mountains of South America. For a long time, indigenous tribes living in the Andes have often fought for fertile land, and now this has become an important ritual for them. The winners of the struggle do not have any trophies or medals. What they receive is the sense of honor to win glory to their tribe and the blessings they bring for the rich harvest in the new year.

Mexico celebrates the Day of the Dead, and death and skeletons are running around the street

Mexico's Day of the Dead is held on November 1st and 2nd every year. This festival is similar to the Qingming Festival in China, but Mexicans have a lively time. Syntagma Square in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, has become a gathering place for Mexicans to celebrate the Day of the Dead. On Mexico's Syntagma Square, there are altars carefully arranged by the district governments of the capital. The altars are decorated with colorful paper-cuts, orange marigold, traditional Mexican food, and various skull shapes. Usually each altar has a theme, such as commemorating a celebrity, president, artist, actor, etc.

bride is selected in Turkish co-bathing baths

For Turks, Turkish baths are not only a place to clean the skin, but are also closely related to people's daily lives. Sometimes marriage matters are decided in the baths. It turns out that Turkish women who believe in Islam usually wear thick robes in addition to wrapping their heads and faces with headscarves. Outsiders cannot see the woman's appearance and figure clearly. As a result, the Turkish bath has become an important place for future mother-in-law to choose daughter-in-law. Generally speaking, the future mother-in-law, accompanied by a matchmaker, invites the future daughter-in-law to take a bath with her. In the bathroom, the future mother-in-law not only needs to look at her daughter-in-law's appearance and figure, but also looks at her pelvis. Only a woman with a large pelvis can bring good luck to the family with many children and many blessings. In addition, how the future daughter-in-law's body odor and whether she has body odor are also the focus of the inspection. Since the Turkish diet is dominated by cheese and meat, heavy body odor is inevitable. A woman with body odor is considered unlucky, and people believe that it is because God punished her.

"No toilet, no wife" has become a special custom in India

Almost every foreigner who has been to India will be deeply impressed by the toilets here. Some people laughed and said that in India, toilets are everywhere, and the earth is the largest open-air toilet. Indeed, both New Delhi, the capital, and Mumbai, the economic center, can be seen on the streets, railways, and coast, Indians looking calm and urinating everywhere. However, people in rural India are generally conservative in their thinking, and women can only hide in the bushes before sunrise and after sunset to "solve problems." This increases their chances of being subjected to violence and even snake bites, as they travel to remote places. Therefore, in order to promote toilet culture, Haryana in northern India has also launched a "no toilet, no wife" custom, urging women to reject suitors who cannot provide houses with toilets.

A rare traditional Indian festival: Men's Day

There is a story why women beat men. It is a long-standing legend: King Krishna of Nandgaon, Nandegaon, India, often went to Barsana, where he once mocked his wife and her friends, which aroused dissatisfaction among local ladies and expelled King Krishna. The female workers drove them away with iron sticks or big bamboo sticks. The name of the festival also comes from this. The more the women fought, the more they fought, the more they became, the more miserable the men fought. They couldn't be beaten up. One shield was not enough, so let's try again! There were also quite a number of onlookers, which was such a lively festival.

India's colorful Holi Festival

The Color Festival is a traditional festival in India. It originated from Indian mythology, Holi (Holi). It is a grand festival that symbolizes the victory of justice over evil and the success of justice. The festival lasts for two days in North Korea and is usually February or March according to the Indian calendar. On the first night, people would start celebrating kick off with high bonfire logs and dry shrubs, symbolizing the image of the burning demon Holika in Indian mythology). The next day, don't call it Dhuleti, but the colorful colors started from that day. On the streets, men, women and children, with colorful lacquer dyes painted on their faces or exchanging gifts, families gathered to welcome the arrival of spring and celebrate the victory in banishing the devil.

Boonyeong Mud Festival, South Korea

Get yourself dirty at the annual Boonyeong Mud Festival in South Korea. For an entire week in June every year, people can enjoy mud painting, mud art, and playing football on the muddy beach without worry. Although the festival is only 12 years old, it attracted more than 1.5 million tourists to experience the fun of mud last year. Mud from Dacheon Beach is rich in minerals and is used as a raw material in many cosmetic products. Unexpectedly, such a noisy festival would be good for your skin.

Songkran Festival in Thailand

Wash the mud off your body, because next time you will see the Songkran Festival in Thailand. In the past few years, this traditional celebration in Thailand has evolved from a ceremonial sprinkler to the world's largest "water war". Anyone who dares to go out on the street during the Water Festival will be the target of garden hoses and water balloon bombs. By then, they will be soaked to the skin, so remember to bring a towel.

French Pig Festival

Every year, France celebrates what they consider to be the greatest but easily misunderstood animal on earth-the pig on the occasion of the Pig Festival. The Pig Festival is held every year in mid-August in the small town of Trie Sur Baise, which once housed the largest pig farm in France. The festival includes piggy games for children, and includes feasting at a ridiculous banquet. But the most attractive one is the annual pig crowing competition. Experienced contestants will monopolize the spotlight while imitating the cries of pigs at birth, death and other times. A jubilant celebration may cure the late summer Boar Cathedral.

Mexican night radish

The name sounds like a vegan horror movie, and this catchy festival is actually a former Mexican Christmas celebration. Every year on December 23, thousands of people gather in Oaxaca, the main square of the city, to witness the creation of vegetarian sculptors who have sculpted great statues of saints and statues of Jesus, entirely with radishes, of course! The best sculptor will be rewarded, and sales of Mexican baked sugar surged that night and the street was dazzled with fireworks.

Hokitika Wild Food Festival, New Zealand

People with weak stomachs do not need to attend the festival held in Hostika, New Zealand every March. At this wild food festival, chefs and mad scientists will challenge the definition of "food" as they introduce creative new dishes such as bee larva ice cream and cucumber fish. Even more surprising, hungry travelers from all over the world flock in and actually pay for these weird foods. In 2003 alone, 22500 visitors visited. The quirky festival also raises questions for wine experts: What would it be like to drink wine and eat smoking eels and worm chocolate?

Torch Festival

Almost naked "Celts" hold up blazing torches and cheer at the May Torch Festival in Carlton Hill, Edinburgh. Such a popular celebration is a modern expression of this ancient Celtic festival. May was once a sign of the arrival of summer, the growing season, and it also marked the return of agriculture and human reproduction.

Ireland bans divorce

Irish law prohibits divorce. Because of this custom, Irish people have considered marriage matters extremely carefully, for fear that "one mistake will lead to eternal hatred." Over time, late marriage became a custom among Irish people.