Chapter 399: Esmeralda

Pinggo believes that it is necessary to quickly make up for the knowledge points about the Roma:

The Roma left India around 1000 AD and arrived in Europe via Afghanistan, Persia, Armenia, Turkey and other places. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Roma are known for their mystical figures, and Europeans once believed that the Roma had innate supernatural abilities (such as fortune telling, etc.). But Roma have also suffered discrimination and persecution throughout history, with Nazi Germany killing Roma in concentration camps alike as Jews, and killing hundreds of thousands of Roma. To this day, some people still have a very negative impression of the Roma as beggars, thieves or traffickers.

The Roma did not have a fixed place to live, but instead used caravans as their home and means of transportation, and made a living from their entertainers, wandering from city to city, gradually becoming a world-famous wandering people.

With the progress of the times, caravans have become difficult to find, and most people have lived a settled life, but most have no stable jobs, and live by cleaning cars, reading fortune telling, reading palmistry, stealing smuggled cigarettes, and buying and selling foreign currency.

Roma marry at an early age, and many women are married before the age of 20. The music also places particular emphasis on the use of high notes and the large spans between notes, and the singing is known worldwide for its emotional richness, and the Roma are the main source of the flamemengo dance that is prevalent in Spain.

It is said that even today, 95 percent of the Roma still live in stone houses, still adhere to the traditions of their ancestors, and live together and intimately in small spaces decorated with carpet, just as they did in open-top carriages in the past.

In the daily customs of the Roma people, there are two important concepts - purity and impurity. For example, if a woman's skirt corner accidentally sweeps a man's bowl of porridge, then the bowl of food is bound to be thrown away.

In the convertible car that wanders all year round, there are always three buckets of water, one for washing food, the second for washing face, and the third for washing feet. If someone accidentally makes a mistake, they will be punished. The value of an isolated gypsy is almost equal to zero.

Most of the fortune-tellers in Western movies are Roma, which is indeed a traditional profession for Roma women. Nowadays, traditional gypsies with mysterious crystal balls are rare, and most fortune tellers use special Roma fortune-telling cards for divination. Most fortune tellers play a "good hand" of cards, spinning a deck of cards around in their hands, waving a waving pile, throwing out a stack with their backhand, and then telling you to draw a few cards out of it - except that there are not many people left in this old trade, and most prefer to take "government asylum" as a profession - to receive relief subsidies from the Social Bureau.

For them, this is not regarded as a humiliation like begging, but as a reward from God.

The Roma language and culture have been in Europe for more than 500 years. But in the French province of Great Britain, Roma are still considered aliens and can be detained by the police at any time. The customs and laws of cultivated land have also imposed more and more adverse restrictions on them.

Europeans always want the Roma to continue to be around the campfire, playing guitars and singing and dancing, but they also want them to settle down, have a normal job, pay income taxes regularly, send the next generation to school, etc., but the Roma who are free by nature do not think so, and they need to continue to live like a romantic Roma - wandering around. Wandering everywhere.

Pingo, who is also romantic and free by nature, has a deep love for Carmen and Esmeralda, and even more likes the French poet Baudelaire's comments on the French writer Hugo, saying: "Hugo is a genius who transcends borders!"

Indeed, in the work "Notre Dame de Paris", Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy girl, has touched the hearts of many boys and girls, and Pingguo is one of them.

This novel is Victor Hugo's first major romantic novel. Victor Hugo is a representative writer of positive romantic literature in the early 19th century, a representative of humanism, and an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is a story created in 15th-century France with twists and turns and contrasts: Claude, the vicar of Notre-Dame Cathedral, is sanctimonious and femme fatale, loves first and then hates, and hates from love to hate, persecuting the gypsy girl Esmeralda. However, Quasimodo, the ugly-faced and kind-hearted bell-ringer who was used by Claude, gave his life to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism with a tragic ending, and praises the virtues, fraternity, and self-sacrifice of the lower working people, fully reflecting Hugo's humanist thoughts.

Special praise was given to Esmeralda, a unique Roma girl who resembled the "Emerald Girl" and the "Emerald Girl". Pure, beautiful, and kind, but he was tricked by the ruthless goddess of fate, fell in love with a handsome but frivolous officer who should not be loved, and finally died in the dire society of the time.

The most heartbreaking thing for Pingo is the events at the end of the reading or at the end of the film: about two years after Esmeralda's death, someone went to the Eagle Mountain Cave to find the body of Duke Olivier, because he had been hanged two days earlier, but Charles VIII was allowed to move the Saint-Laurent cemetery to be with the good people. The men searched among the horrific wreckage and dry bones, and found two skeletons.

One hugging the other in a peculiar pose.

One of the skeletons was a woman, with fragments of a white cloth dress on it, and a necklace of rosary tree fruits hanging around her neck, and a small silk sachet encrusted with green glass at the lower end, which had been opened and was empty.

The other person who hugged the skeleton tightly was a man, and I saw that the skeleton had a crooked vertebrae, its head retracted into the neck cavity, one leg short and the other long;

Someone was going to pull the skeleton he was hugging apart, and his remains immediately turned into dust.

Esmeralda. Quasimodo. How can people miss her, miss her singing and dancing, miss her kindness, miss her beauty, her sudden death makes Pingguo feel painful. What will never be forgotten is the scene when Esmeralda rescued Quasimodo in front of the Place de la Notre Dame in Paris, and the words: "The grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring!"

Facing Ping Hanhan, who was reporting the loss, Pingguo was packing his suitcase while thinking about it.

The daughter asked, "Mom, the credit card matter is over." Next, shall we go to the police?"

Pingguo said firmly: "Of course we have to go, and hurry up! When we meet the police, we must emphasize that we immediately need all kinds of documents in our wallets, especially visas and residence cards, because we will soon have to travel to Eastern European countries! Air tickets, accommodation, and so on have all been booked! We cannot tolerate any delay." I hope the police can help us quickly recover what we don't need for thieves!"

Ping Hanhan hurriedly checked the location of the nearest police station on the Internet, and then the mother and daughter were about to set off.

Before going out, the daughter felt sorry for her mother and said, "Mom, otherwise, don't go, just wait at home for a while, look at you, you can't straighten your waist!"

Pingguo thought about it, it's okay, he needs to let his daughter go.

It's also an independent form of exercise.