Chapter 559: The People of Cigang (Part I)
Mr. Lian's demeanor and conversation are very gentle. However, this kind of urbane and polite gentlemanly style gives people a completely different feeling, no matter how amiable Sergei's attitude towards people, but you can feel the confidence in his temperament and the unquestionable majesty.
What about this Mr. Lian in front of you? His gentle and delicate temperament in his bones not only makes people feel the slightest domineering, but even makes people feel pity.
What a weak scholar! I suddenly understood why there are so many little women in Chinese dramas who rescue scholars in distress. It turns out that such a man can easily excite your Madonna heart.
I actually couldn't bear to look at Jingjing sad, so I offered to help them, at this moment, I actually felt that this Mr. Lian in front of me seemed to be more pitiful than Jingjing.
Mr. Lien told us that he was in the market with his camera in high spirits and was taking pictures when suddenly two gypsy kids came running up from nowhere and surrounded him.
He was very curious, so he took two pictures of them, but he didn't expect the two children to hold him in a gesture. Immediately afterwards, seven or eight gypsy children, big and small, the eldest looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old.
Before Mr. Lian could react, the group of children rushed up and turned over on him, and Mr. Lin pushed this one away with both hands, and that one came again...... A group of people tugged at him, and even tried to snatch the camera from his hand.
When Mr. Lian finally regained the camera, the group of children suddenly dispersed, and when he came back to his senses, he found that his wallet and passport were gone.
Mr. Lian said excitedly:
- "I can't imagine that such a small child, so savage, so terrible, is simply a group of bandits, stretching out their little dirty hands, constantly pulling my clothes, no matter how I shout, they just don't listen, I really can't get them alone!" β
- "You, you're too Sven. I said
I looked at the frustrated Mr. Lian in front of me with sympathy, and thought to myself, I don't blame Xiaohui for laughing at him, he is indeed too honest. If this was Andre, he would have stomped his feet and scared away the group of children before he could.
Alas! Who let this Mr. Lian look at it and bully!
It's also strange that he became the target of the group of Tska children.
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If you've lived in Russia, you've heard of the Tsgangs.
If you know Russian literature, then you must also know Pushkin's long poem "Tsgang".
In nineteenth-century Russian literature, the image of the Tsgangs is often positioned as follows:
They have their own special means of making a living, and there are many immoral ways such as stealing and cheating. The Cigang people are a wandering people, and they cannot survive without wandering.
In addition, the people of Cigang also have the character traits of being enthusiastic and advocating freedom, and they are willing to abandon love and life in order to pursue freedom, even at the expense of everything.
If we compare the image of the Tskam people in literature with the Tskam people in real life, it is not difficult to find that many of the qualities of the Tskam people loved by Russian writers in the 19th century were the imagination of the writers.
When the black-haired, Tsgang-speaking Tsgangs came to Russia, the Russians subconsciously thought of them as others. And when it comes to understanding the Tsgangan culture, Russians will inevitably use their own culture as a standard to measure the Tsgangan culture. Therefore, there are a lot of untrue rumors about the Tsgangs in Russia.
For Chinese, perhaps we are more familiar with another name for the Tsgangan people - gypsies.
Gypsies, a well-known cross-border people.
The British called them Gypsies, the French called them Bohèmes, the Spaniards called them flamencos, the Russians called them the Tsgans, the Albanians called them the Evgits, the Greeks called them the Ajinganos, the Iranians called them the Rories, and the Sri Lankans called them the Aiquintakas......
The Gypsies call themselves Rom, and in the Gypsy language, "Dom" means "man".
There are about 12 million Gypsies in the world, of which about 10 million are located in Europe.
Accurate estimates of their numbers are difficult due to their way of life (evasion of official population registration and censuses is a common feature) and their long-standing social and political discrimination.
Gypsies have a unique tradition that they do not intermarry with foreigners (the age of marriage is 12~13 years old). There are different "tribes" of Gypsies in various countries.
Although the Gypsies had a large population, they lived in a scattered area, and they suffered a lot, just as the Jews suffered in history.
During World War II, Hitler sent 500,000 Gypsies to concentration camps to be killed.
In 1979, the United Nations officially recognized the Roma (i.e., Gypsies) as a people. After the end of the cold war, Gypsies in Central and Eastern Europe were severely marginalized, their identities were not recognized, and their very existence was threatened.
The name Gypsy itself is wrong, as Gypsy or Gypsies are derived from the English word Egyptian, which is the traditional name given to them by the British and most of the world.
This is due to the fact that in the 15th century, Europeans did not know much about the strangers who wandered to them, and mistakenly thought that they were from Egypt, so they called them "Egyptians", and gradually became "Gypsies".