Indian villages have a big wedding for frogs
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The frogs caught red on the head of the China Daily News World Online: A village in West Bengal, India, held a big “marriage ceremony” for two frogs last week, which was attended by 3,000 people, in an effort to alleviate the local drought and water shortage.
According to British media reports, India has experienced the rainy season this year, but has experienced the worst drought in 80 years, with severe drought in some areas.
A village called “Madhya Baragari”, located 750 kilometres north of the West Bengal State capital, Calcutta, decided to hold a frog wedding in the traditional way of praying for rain.
The wedding was organized by the village ' s villagers, and the two frogs married were named Ram and Sita, the most respected mythical couple in Hinduism.
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In accordance with the ancient Hindu tradition, the heads of two frogs were painted with red zu, and the “bride” was “dressed” with red clothes that symbolized festivities.
At the ceremony, the two frogs were first held face-to-face in front of the holy candle and then in parallel.
The women in the village were fasted early before the wedding, and after the “new man” ceremony they invited the river god to the ceremony and asked the river god to give blessing.
The head of the local village council, Sergeant Rai, said that they had invited some 3,000 villagers to the frog wedding, which was a very big event.
He indicated that it was because of the drought and lack of water that the villagers decided to hold the frog's “wedding” and hoped that the ceremony would be used to pray for rain.
The "wedding" of frogs is a custom in parts of India and Bangladesh.
*** Link: The legends of Ram and Sita
for Indians, Rama and Theta are like Adam and Eve in the Bible, Romeo and Juliet in the play, and Leung Sang-dee in China, like Zhou Young-dee, are well-known protagonists of love stories.
There are many versions of their stories, folklore, Hindu scriptures, poetry, theatre.
According to one of India ' s two great epics, Ramoyena, Rama and his wife Theta and brother Roshmana were exiled from the forest of Dandaka, and Rovana, the evil king of Ceylon, came to their hideout as a vigil, hunted while Román and his brother Roshmana took her and took her to Ceylon.
The brothers searched everywhere for Theta and eventually sought help from the King of the Monkeys and his General Hanuman.
So Hanuman went to look for Theta, and he crossed the Strait one step and found Theta at the palace in Rowana, and he immediately told Roma.
With the help of a large number of monkeys and bears, Román built a stone road through the sea to Ceylon.
After an intense battle, Rowana was killed and Romo rescued Theta.
In the fighting, Román ' s brother, Roshmana, was struck with an arrow and fell unconscious on the ground.
They say it's only HiA herbal juice on Mount Malaya can save him.
Hanuman crossed the sea only one big step to the Himalayas.
He recovered herbs from the top of the mountain and finally saved Rothmana。