Chapter 561: The People of Cigang (II)
As a naturally wandering people, Gypsies have a strong national character in their hearts, they reject other cultures and changes, and keep some romantic yearning and natural characteristics about wandering in their hearts.
Even today, 95 percent of the Gypsies, living in stone houses, remain true to their ancestral traditions: living together and close together in small spaces decorated with carpet, just as they did in the open carriages of the past.
In their daily customs, there are two important concepts - pure and unclean, for example, if a woman's skirt is accidentally swept around a man's bowl, then the bowl of food is bound to be thrown out; In their convertible car, which they wander all year round, there are always three buckets of water, one for washing food, the second for washing their faces, and the third for washing their feet. If someone accidentally makes a mistake, they will be punished.
Own court: When a person or a family has a grievance lawsuit, there is no such thing as a trial prison sentence. Punishment can give a person death, but it cannot deprive a person of his liberty. Serious criminals who are classified as "unclean" will be banished from the clan. An isolated Gypsy has almost zero value to survive.
Fortune telling is a traditional trade for Gypsies, especially for Gypsy women.
Nowadays, the traditional type of fortune teller with a mysterious crystal ball is very rare, and most fortune tellers use special gypsy fortune-telling playing cards to divinate people.
Gypsy fortune tellers mostly play a "good hand": they spin a deck of cards around in their hands, wave a wav, throw a stack with their backhand, and ask you to draw a few of them.
From the French writer Mérimée's "Carmen", we can get a glimpse of some characteristics of this nation: passionate, unrestrained, free-spirited, wandering between the city and the countryside.
They use their wanderings to write the history of generation after generation, with birth being the beginning and death being the end.
Many of them live in revival, living a life that only their own people can understand.
This special national temperament has created a natural music.
The guitar is not a person's self-playing and singing; Bass is not used to interpret the jazz of Nan Ou Ou Guang; The accordion is not a lone of the snowfields; Singing doesn't express more helplessness and suffering; What you hear is always a piece of music played as a whole, no part is missing, and everyone is writing their spirit with their enthusiasm and madness, a special temperament that belongs to the gypsy nation.
Europeans always want the Gypsies to continue to play guitars and dance around the campfire, but at the same time they want them to settle down, have a normal job, pay regular income taxes, send their children to school, etc.
The language and culture of the Gypsies have been in Europe for more than 500 years. Despite this, in the French province of Great Britain, Gypsies 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.
Gypsies, however, don't think so. They are going to continue to live like a gypsy - wandering around.
The lack of recognition of Gypsies is largely due to the question of their identity.
Anthropologists and linguists are at odds over whether the Gypsies are a single people, and there is a growing tendency to do so.
Establishing that the Gypsies are a single people, rather than a mixture of multiple ethnicities, would help to safeguard their legitimate rights.
Recently, scientists from Edith Cowan University in Australia conducted a study in which they selected 275 people from 14 different gypsy "tribes". These people are not related to each other. The researchers examined their Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA (mitochondria can only be inherited from the mother, so they can effectively determine the correlation of the ancestry of the population). They contain mutations called "haplogroups". As a result, the scientists found that samples from all 14 regions contained haplogroup VI-68 on the Y chromosome, which accounted for 44.8% of all samples. Similar findings were made for mitochondrial DNA: 26.5% of males carried haplogroup M. These people exhibited very little difference in the haplogroup.
This conclusion shows that the Gypsies were still a single people, despite their different tribes.
Moreover, both haplogroup VI-68 and haplogroup M are specific to Asians, which supports the linguistic evidence.
Researchers at Edith Cowan University said that they will continue to study the unity of the Gypsy people, which will prompt some countries to face up to the fact that the Gypsies are a single people.
At the same time, since the Gypsy people are very homogeneous (do not intermarry with foreigners), scientists studying the genes of this "closed" people can determine the pathogenesis of certain diseases - the Gypsies are not ominous symbols, but very precious samples.
In 1654 Ukraine was annexed to Russia, and at the same time, Russia received the Tsgan people who lived there.
This was the first Tsgangs to appear on the territory of Russia. And on the territory of the Russian Empire, the Tsgangs did not appear until the end of the XVIII century. After that, with the expansion of the territory, Russia received different Tsgangs.
It is in this way that the territory of what is now Russia is inhabited by Tsgangs of different ethnicities.
At that time, Russia did not take any measures to persecute the Tsgangs, who lived in much better conditions than in other countries.
With the improvement of living conditions, most of the people of Tsgangan live a semi-settled life, and no longer engage in those petty tricks of stealing and fraud.
Although these Tsgangs belong to different races, they share similar values and worldviews. They are all protective of children, advocate motherhood, respect the elderly, and be faithful to their families. In addition, as victims of the patriarchal society, the status of the women of Ijigang is low, and they do not even have the right to fight for their own happiness.
The Gypsies had a unique influence on Europe, and in the world literary scene, there are numerous works that have shaped their image. These works include both prose and poetry, not only in different genres, but also in different genres.
Pushkin's long poem "Tsgang" is one of my favorite works.