Honeymoon Paradise - Fiji's Customs and Traditions
The South Pacific island nation of Fiji has a unique and mysterious custom. The village is the most basic form of organization in Fiji, and the current President Josefa Iloilo is from the village of Vicesse, which is thus called "the first village of Fiji".
In Fijian villages, there is a special rule that you cannot wear a hat or touch the head of a child, only the village chief has the privilege to wear a hat; and touching someone's head is the greatest humiliation to others, more than 100 years ago, it could have been killed; in 1867, a British missionary was hacked alive and cooked by angry natives for taking a comb off the head of a local chief. Now that Fijians have fully embraced modern civilization, the custom of not touching someone's head remains.
Men wearing skirts and flowers.
here are many flowers in Fiji, and people wearing flowers everywhere, men and women alike (national flower: fusang). It is said that wearing flowers on the left side means that you are unmarried, while wearing flowers on both sides means that you are married. In addition to men wearing flowers, what is more surprising here is that men also wear skirts. Skirt is called "SOLO" here, not only men usually wear SOLO, even the police officers directing traffic are also wearing SOLO to carry out their duties, really a street scene. Every year in mid-August, a week-long saffron festival is held, and saffron, or hibiscus, is the national flower of Fiji. During the festival, islanders hold a costume parade to elect the Saffron Queen.
Many traditions still exist on the island, such as the magical chanting ritual of calling fish from the deep to the shallow waters for capture, and the traditional firewalking ceremony, all of which are mysterious traditions that have not yet died in Fiji.
The two national treasures of Fiji are the whale's flat tooth called tabua and the local drink called yangana.
The Fijian tribes, Veddoo girls are subjected to ant bites during their coming of age ceremony. This means that the local people want them to be able to bear the pain and be united as ants. The Tikuna girls in the bar mitzvah to cut off all the hair only in the top of the head to leave a small handful of hair, this move is to indicate the succession, and that handful of hair suitable for ancestral ties a bridge. At the same time, there are clansmen playing drums and chanting on the side. Then there is a special person to take a needle through the ears of young girls to leave ear piercing, if in order to prevent small babies in the future can not be safe through the bar mitzvah, so you can also pierce the ears in advance is the parents of the child's future happy life hopes.
