The Tsigon people are one of the largest ethnic minorities in Europe.

Originally living in northern India, around the 10th century AD, due to war, famine and other reasons, the ancestors of the Tsgangan people left their homeland in India and began to live a wandering life. Over time, they have traveled all over Europe.

The appearance of the gypsies is characterized by a long face that is a little square, a wide face at the top and narrow at the bottom, a slightly pointed chin, long eyebrows, large, long, and bright eyes, which occupy most of the proportions of the upper half of the face, the bridge of the nose is extra long, tall and straight, the mouth is a little wide, and the expression is calm and mysterious and somewhat indifferent.

Most Gypsies speak Romany, a language closely related to modern Indo-European in northern India; They also speak the main languages of their countries of residence.

In the world literary circle, there are many works that have created the image of the Cigang people. These works include both prose and poetry, not only in different genres, but also in different genres.

We are more familiar with the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda in "Notre Dame de Paris"; Bizet's opera Carmen; "Song of the Wanderer" by Salisti; the Indian film "Caravan"; Mexican film "Yesenia", etc.

For centuries, the international ethnological community has been interested in the study of wandering Gypsies, especially the origins of this unusual people, and the migration route has been studied as a specialized study.

However, due to the paucity of historical data on the origin, migration time, and wandering routes of the Gypsies, scholars from all over the world have often indulged in various controversial assumptions or oral traditions for a long time, rather than facing the historical reality.

In order to further argue that the Gypsies originated in India, it is necessary to study the social system, culture, and customs of this ancient people.

In ancient India there was a very widespread and well-known ethnic group - the Domes. By the 4th century A.D., this people, their ancient culture and unusual customs had come to the fore. The Domes are mostly music lovers and soothsayers.

The Domes are despised by the other ethnic groups of India. They did not have a fixed occupation, and in addition to going to the rivers and lakes as excellent servants, they were mostly hired to engage in lowly occupations, such as husbands, scavengers, execution-ground officials, craftsmen, etc. Although the Domes were versatile and adept at making ends meet, the local peasants of various nationalities looked down on them and forbade intermarriage with them.

During World War II, Hitler imprisoned Gypsies and Jews in concentration camps, killing as many as 500,000 Gypsies.

The Domes left India around 1000 AD and arrived in Europe via Afghanistan, Persia, Armenia, Turkey, and other places. (There are still Domes scattered in Iran and other places.) )

By the 14th century, the Domes had reached the Balkans, and by the 16th century they had spread across Europe, including Scotland and Sweden.

Others reached North Africa via Syria and then across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain.

At the same time, there are still ethnic groups similar to the Roma in northern India.

The reasons for the long-distance migration of the Roma remain a mystery to this day. Some scholars claim that the ancestors of the Domes were low-caste Hindus who were conscripted into the mercenary army, promoted to the Kshatriya (i.e., warrior) caste, and were sent west to resist the expansion of the Christian state.

Other scholars claim that after the conquest of northern India, its captives were reduced to slavery and developed their own unique culture, which became the predecessor of the Roma.

But it is a mystery why the Roma did not return to India after arriving in the Middle East, but continued their way into Europe.

It is believed that the Gypsies left India through repeated migrations, to Persia in the 11th century, to Southeastern Europe in the early 14th century, and to Western Europe in the 15th century. Gypsy traces in the second half of the 20th century have spread throughout North and South America and reached Australia.

The Gypsies came to China around the time of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the rise of the Mongols, the descendants of Genghis Khan made many expeditions to the west and continued to expand in the Middle East. They captured a large number of local residents, partly as slaves and partly as a supplement to the Mongol army. After these people were brought back to the Central Plains, some Gypsies came to China, known as "Luo Li Hui".

Luo Li Hui was first found in the literature of the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Chengzong of the Yuan Dynasty (1302), and they were included in the Semu class by the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, and as one of the exiles in the Western Regions, they enjoyed more privileges than the Han Nan.

They are small in number, still in tribes, maintaining the tradition of singing and dancing, wandering, and looting, leaving their footprints in the vast area from the northwest to the southeast coast.

Until the Ming Dynasty, Luo Lihui harassed the people, killed and robbed people repeatedly.

After the Qing Dynasty, Luo Li Hui is not found in the literature, or as a Hui nationality, or as a Han nationality, it was assimilated by Chinese civilization and integrated into the big family of the Chinese nation.

There are about 5 million to 10 million Roma in the world, most of whom live in Europe.

The main areas of Roma are the Balkans, Central Europe, the United States, and the former Soviet republics. Roma are also inhabited in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

The Roma population in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the United States is more than half a million.

Slovakia has about 5%-6% of the total population, the highest proportion of Roma in the world.

Gypsies do not farm and generally do not raise food livestock, but depend on the inhabitants of towns and villages for their livelihood.

Traditionally, Gypsies have been around towns and rural settlements, seeking a livelihood adapted to their nomadic life.

They did not have a fixed place to live, but used caravans as their home and means of transportation, and made a living from performing arts, wandering from city to city, and gradually became a world-famous wandering people.

With the progress of the times, in today's Yugoslavia, the typical Cigan caravan has become rare, and most of the Cigan people live a settled life. But most of them do not have stable jobs, and they make a living mainly by cleaning people's cars, reading fortune telling, selling smuggled cigarettes, and buying and selling foreign currency.

The Roma refer to these settled Gypsies as "Sinte" and believe that they have given up the true Gypsy life.

Wandering all year round, unwilling to be bound by any other law, the Gypsies have been the norm since the ancient 11th century.

Because of the incompatibility of the way of life of the Gypsies and other ethnic groups of their countries, non-Roma generally have a negative impression of the Roma as not being integrated into the mainstream of society and as beggars, thieves or traffickers.