Customs and habits in the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in the central part of the African continent, with its full name being the Central African Republic. Central Africa covers an area of 622,000 square kilometers. It was formerly known as the French territory of Oubangi-Chari and is one of the French colonies in Africa. Central Africa borders Sudan and South Sudan in the east, Congo (Brazzaville) and Congo (DRC) in the south, Cameroon in the west, and Chad in the north. There are 32 tribes, large and small, in the country, mainly Baya, Banda, Sango and Mangi Albanians. The official language is French, and Sango is commonly used.

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like bright colors. Central Africans used to believe in fetishism and ghosts. They believed that all natural phenomena in the world were caused by ghosts and gods. When people died and entered another world, their souls would come back to harass them. To this end, on the one hand, people set up altar to worship ghosts and gods, and on the other hand, they turned to wizards (women) to exorcise evil to eliminate disasters and diseases. Central Africans still maintain their totem beliefs. Every family worships an animal as a symbol of strength that cannot be hunted, let alone eaten.

Central Africans eat potatoes as their staple food, and others include corn, millet, plantains, etc. The edible oil is palm oil. There are many jungles in Central Africa, and most people mainly rely on hunting to get meat. Central Africans eat sitting in a circle with a pot of cassava balls and a pot of vegetables in the middle, or stewed meat pieces, fish pieces, or meat chowder. There are no dishes, all rice with your hands.

It is a taboo for people in China and Africa to eat animals that are regarded as totem. Women are not allowed to eat snake meat and leopard meat, children are not allowed to eat leopard meat, and most people except the Bharti do not eat dog meat. Men and women cannot sit together to eat. Children eat with their mothers, and sons eat with their fathers when they grow up. When relatives come to visit, men and women must also be separated. Men and women in the family can eat in two stalls in the same room, but men and women with different surnames must be divided into two rooms, and even son-in-law and mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and father-in-law cannot be together.

In the past, in Central Africa, people would bow their heads and bend their knees to express their respect when they met elders, chiefs, etc. Later, influenced by European colonialism, shaking hands and hugging became a way to greet each other. The formal etiquette now is to shake hands. People you are familiar with, or if one party is a woman, hug and touch their faces, with both sides touching their right cheeks once and their left cheeks twice. This is also used by government officials and diplomatic envoys to congratulate the President on holidays or on other grand occasions. Some tribal men put their left hand on their right arm to show respect when shaking hands with guests. In rural areas, some people bend their knees slightly and bow their heads when shaking hands to show respect for their guests. When rural women hug guests, they touch their left and right faces once, and kiss the third time. Central Africans are not allowed to shake hands with women in black, but can only greet them verbally or nod.