Chapter 62: Hijras (Shocking Harvest)
After visiting the Snake Temple, Liu Zi'an temporarily received a notice from China, so he said goodbye to Shakru and Amisha, and returned to China in a hurry with Wang Jing. It's just that neither of them expected that the two would meet again after seven years, and this encounter not only made the two parties really know each other, but also launched a very in-depth cooperation and established a deep friendship.
Next, Shakru accompanied Amisha to visit Jincheng Jensmail, Pink City Jaipur and Blue City Jodhapour, and then Amisha's summer vacation time was almost over, after saying goodbye to Amisha, Shakru hurried back to New Delhi, because his heart has always been very worried about the progress of his pharmaceutical factory and film shooting, although he can receive a call from his subordinates every day, but he is not very relieved to see it with his own eyes.
After returning to New Delhi, Shakru found that the construction of the factory and the development of new drugs were going very well, so he explained to Moody and went to the filming set in a small village in the remote suburbs of New Delhi. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived, director Rakuma ran over with an excited face: "Boss, it's so good for you to come, just come with me to the wedding." ”
Shakru asked with a puzzled expression, "Wedding?" Whose wedding are you attending? I don't think there was a wedding scene in this movie, right? ”
"Oops, I was in a hurry and didn't make it clear. Today is the wedding of the son of the village chief Javid, this time we can shoot the exterior here thanks to the help of others, so we have to celebrate this wedding, originally I was worried that my identity was not enough, I couldn't express our attention to others, now the boss is here, your identity is enough to deal with this kind of scene. LaKouma explained.
Indians can be said to be the most solemn wedding country in the world, as long as a little money, will make the wedding very grand, and especially like to invite famous people to attend the wedding, so as to show that the owner has a special face, Shakru is not only the owner of a company but also a high-caste Brahmin, so he went to attend the wedding of the village chief's son, and naturally he will be infinitely welcomed by the owner.
Although the wedding was very grand and lively, Shakru was not very interested, and the only thing that he found interesting was the scene of the groom riding an elephant. (The wedding process in India is extremely complicated, and most of the projects are related to religion, so I'll write the whole process in detail when the main character gets married, and I won't go into detail now.) )
Just when Shakru was bored, suddenly two very slender men dressed in extremely brightly colored saris walked in - men, yes, although they were very slender and richly painted, they could still see that they were men, and they were dancing as they walked.
Rakumachi on the side said: "Hey, there is no such thing as inviting Hijras in today's wedding process, why did two suddenly appear at this moment." Then he reacted and said, "Oh, I see, this must be uninvited again." Ay! These guys are getting tougher and tougher. ”
It wasn't until Lakuma uttered the words "Hijras" that Shakru realized what these two men who didn't look like men were doing. Hijra, eunuch is a modern Indian profession known as the "dancer of the gods", performed by male castrations of Indian religion to pray for the blessing of the owner of the wedding, funeral, and marriage. In India, it is common to see dancers wearing brightly colored saris and wearing heavy makeup, but still having many masculine features on their faces.
Traditionally believed that "they are the messengers of the gods and will bless the new man with abundant children", the origin of Hijlas can be found in the Ramayana, one of the two great epic poems of India. Completed around the 5th century B.C., the Ramayana follows Prince Rama (the god of the Indians) abdicating himself from the throne and leaving his wife and brother in self-imposed exile for 14 years. During these years, all the male and female servants left Rama, and only one castrated servant waited for 14 years until the return of the master. This servant became the progenitor of Hijras.
The Hijras have a relatively high status in the Indian religion, and in the past, they danced and prayed for the royal family, nobles and the army. With the development of society and the increasing complexity of their own ranks, they are gradually forgotten or even abandoned by society. But in the countryside, they still have many believers.
The current "Hijras" is no longer as pure as the "messenger of God", it has developed into a very complex social group. They include not only castrated people, but also homosexuals, people who have undergone sex reassignment surgery and people of both sexes, who, like the traditional "hijras", wear women's clothes and see themselves as women, but they do not adhere to tradition. Now Indians don't have a good impression of them, because many of them make a living by fraud and betrayal of their hues. Some people spend their days wandering the streets. As soon as they stopped by a shop, the interested shopkeeper would give them some money or food, because although the shopkeepers didn't quite believe that the "soured" "Hijras" still had magical powers, they didn't want to be cursed by them. Nowadays, many Indians don't invite "Hijras" to get married and have children, but at the celebration, these dancers tend to come uninvited, and if you don't want to "show it", you will hear the words, "Their offspring (or this child) will become like us". In addition, they can be seen in many ******** places in India. They tend to tease men in very sexy clothes, and most of the people who are with them are homosexuals. In India's health department surveys, the proportion of HIV patients and drug addicts among the "Hijras" is very high, which is one of the reasons why they are rejected by people.
Although the village chief Javid was not very welcome to these two uninvited guests, in order not to spoil the harmonious atmosphere of the wedding and not to be cursed by these two guys, he came forward to give some money and sent the two guys away.
After the two Hijras left, Shakru sighed, "I didn't expect that there really is Hijras in the countryside now." ”
Rakuma smiled: "Boss, this means that you rarely go to those messy places, in fact, there are also Hijras in New Delhi, but those places are more chaotic." But if you want to say strange things, they are really not strange, I have been filming here during this time, but I really met a very strange person! ”