African customs and specialties

Africa is the continent with the largest number of upper-class races in the world. There are more than 2 continents, large and small. It speaks nearly a thousand languages. It is also the continent with the most diverse ethnic groups around the world. Each ethnic group maintains different ways of living such as religious beliefs, local traditions, hobbies, and moral etiquette, reflecting Africa's glamorous national characteristics and its rotten customs.

The Maasai people living on the eastern plateau of Africa have confirmed that the Maasai people have a more extraordinary appearance because of their different ethnic characteristics, fierce ethnic nature, colorful costumes and unique style: brown-black skin, slightly narrow face. The nose is slightly broad, and the figure is thin and long. Their customs and decorations are even more extraordinary. Men grow long hair or weave it into small pigtails and insert it with generous hair accessories. The girls shave it bald one by one. Maasai girls use it to tie one ear and soften one ear bone with butter to plug people's earrings. As the number of years increases, the weight of earrings is also increased. Various earrings such as gold, silver plating, stones, beads, and iron rings are hung up. The auricles are pulled longer and longer, and the ear holes are pulled wider and wider until the ears and shoulders are pierced through, and even big enough to stretch through a fist.

African customary

In many places in Africa, meals are eaten without tables and chairs, knives and forks, let alone chopsticks. Instead, rice is eaten with hands. When eating, each person sits around in a circle, with a lunch box and a vegetable box placed in the middle. Each person holds the edge of the lunch box or vegetable box with his left hand, grasps the rice and vegetables in front of him with the fingers of his right hand, and delivers them to the import. At this time, you will be at a loss and even have your hands full of rice. However, Africans themselves take clean measures when picking and eating rice. When guests eat, they should pay attention to not scatter the food on the ground, which is something the owner hides. After the meal, when the elders have not left the banquet, the younger generation must sit quietly and look forward to it; when future generations leave the banquet, they must bow and thank their parents; guests should wait for the host to finish eating and leave together.

In many places in Africa, there are strict etiquette when eating, and there are even rules for who eats each part of cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks. For example, in Mali, men whose thighs used to grow eat them, and the chicken breast meat belongs to older women; the heads of the family eat the chicken neck, stomach and liver; and the chicken's head, feet and accomplices are divided among the children. Another example is in Botswana, at a large official banquet, guests and men eat beef, and married women eat chop suey. The two are cooked and eaten separately, and are not allowed to be mixed. To follow the local customs, you must get to know each other.

Ancient Egypt created the earliest solar calendar in human history. As early as 4000 BC, the Egyptians had determined the year to be 365 days, dividing the whole year into 12 months, with 30 days per month, and the remaining 5 days for festivals; at the same time, they also divided the year into 3 seasons, namely, the "flood season","sowing season" and "harvesting season", each with 4 months. In fact, this calendar in ancient Egypt was not accurate. Since an astronomical year was 365.25 days, the ancient Egyptian calendar was one day behind the astronomical calendar every four years. However, in ancient times, it was the best calendar. During the Ancient Kingdom, the Egyptians investigated that when the Nile River began to flood, Sirius morning was on the Egyptian horizon at this moment, so the ancient Egyptians designated this day as the first day of the year.

African specialties

Africa has many types of proven mineral resources and large reserves. Oil and natural gas reserves are rich; there are large reserves of iron, manganese, chromium, cobalt, nickel, vanadium, copper, lead, zinc, tin, phosphate, etc.; gold and diamond have long been famous; uranium veins have been invented one after another, attracting attention. The reserves of many minerals rank among the hottest lines in the world. There are at least 40000 species of plants in Africa. Jungle area accounts for 21% of Africa's total area. It is rich in mahogany, ebony, rosewood, koba, ebony, camphor tree, chestnut tree, walnut, yellow lacquer wood, cork oak and other economic forests. The grassland is vast and covers 27% of Africa's total area, ranking first among all continents. There are abundant exploitable water resources. The coast is rich in sardines, tuna, mackerel, whales, etc.

African cash crops, especially tropical cash crops, occupy important positions in the world. The yields of cotton, sisal, peanuts, oil palm, cashew nuts, sesame, coffee, cocoa, sugarcane, tobacco leaf, natural rubber, cloves, etc. are all high. Frankincense, myrrh, carit, kora, and alphagrass are endemic to the continent.