1、Strange custom,The nose-rubbing (碰鼻礼),In New Zealand,there is a traditional meeting form.When they meet ,they will touch both nose which is called The nose-rubbing (碰鼻礼) .According to the tradition,long time they touched ,means the ceremony is more higher,and the guest is more popular.,Cambodia柬埔寨gi
2、rls must learn smoking befor marry,In Cambodia,girls married at the age of fifiteen and sixteen,while boys about twenty.what surprised me is that every gril needs to learn how to smoke befor married.,WHY,their parents believed that the taste of cigarette seems like joys and sorrows of life.Especiall
3、y,strong cigarette refresh oneself prevent them lost , when they walking in the forest,which is as far as the eyes can reach .If one doesnt know how to somke,may be considered not beauitful.So,no matter how bad it feels,grils still learn it without ang hesitate.,Madagascar“famadihana”(翻尸节),All over
4、the word ,there are many different ways to remember the person we lost ,but in Madagascar,the relation ship between alive and dead is very closed.Every year ,they will hold the famadihana.,Known as the turning of the bones, people bring the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts and rewrap
5、 them with new cloth, then dance with the corpses(尸体） around the tomb.,IndiaHit man festival(打男人节),Origin,At the day of Huoli,India women will dress up in different corols, taking a long stick, coming to a small village called Basana and waitting.Meanwhile,man will get together at the village of Nan
6、dgaon ,they all put on thick clothes,carry shied(盾牌)and go to Basana .When they meet,the perform of “hit man“ is start.,long neck nationality,History,Long neck nationglity spread on the boundary of Burma(缅甸) and the north of Thailand.In fact,the length of theri neck is no different with us,but theri
7、 clavicle(锁骨)suffered from necklet.They believed that theri totom(图腾) is dragon and phoenix（凤凰）,and they can be them .So,when gril at hers five,when the ossature(骨骼) start to growth,parents will cover the necklet to theri daughters neck,it starts with three or five ,and than ,it add one by one till
8、twenties.The long and thin neck seems like birds,plus the ring on the arm and shank,when they walking ,just like a phoenix flying !,Strange Birth Customs ：Spitting On The Baby,The Wolof people of Mauritania and surrounding countries believe that human saliva can retain words, so they spit on newborn
9、s to add blessings that stick. When a baby is born, women spit on its face, men spit in its ear, and then, they rub saliva all over its head. The Igbo tribe in Nigeria goes further. When a baby is born, it goes to the familys ancestral house. There, a relative who is a good orator chews some alligat
10、or pepper, spits it on a finger, and puts it in the babys mouth. This supposedly makes the child grow up to be just as good an orator as the donor of the spit.,Blackening the Bride: Scotland,To celebrate the happiest day in a womans life, friends and relatives of the bride will show affection by put
11、ting every nasty things you can imagine like curdled milk, dead fish, spoiled food, tar, sauces, mud, flour, sausages into a bucket and throwing it over her. She is then tied to a tree. The belief is that if you can handle this you can handle anything, including marriage. In short blackening the bri
12、de is to prepare her for any humiliation or problems shell come across during her marriage.,Strange New Year traditions ：Animal whispering, Romania,Farmers try to hear their animals talk in a ritual which, if successful, signifies not just a Doctor Dolittle（A Doctor finds out that he can understand
13、what animals are saying. And the animals find out that he understands. -a comedy） gift for communicating with our furry relatives but good luck for the coming year.,Some strange food etiquette rules,In the UK make sure to tilt the soup bowl away from you,In Japan chopsticks are used to pass bones du
14、ring funerals so they should never be used to pass food,In China you should burp at the dinner table if you enjoyed the food,In France the bread is typically placed directly on the table rather than on a plate,The Inuit people of Canada will fart after meals to express their appreciation of the food
15、,POLAND: applauding when the plane lands.,Nobody seems to know exactly why this is a characteristic peculiar to Polish people. Maybe its just because the ground is pretty awesome.,FRANCE: buying funny hats for your unmarried friends.,25 November is St Catherines Day in France, and all unmarried 25-y
16、ear-old women are given elaborate green and yellow hats, which they must wear all day.,GERMANY: following a sock-garland to your birthday party.,If you reach your 25 without getting married in Germany, your friends will string a garland of socks from your house to the venue of your birthday, and every few socks youll be encouraged to have an alcoholic drink.,Thank you for watching,
