Tell me about Indian culture you don't know.

India has a long history. In ancient times, it was one of the four ancient civilizations and created the Indus civilization. In fact, people do not know much about Indian culture. They can only learn a little from news and movies. So in this issue of "National Culture", I will take you to know about Indian culture and have a look together.

India calls itself bharata, and in ancient times it was called Shanbuzhou, Tianzhu and Body Poison. It is located in the South Asian subcontinent and is our close neighbor. Indian civilization is one of the four ancient civilizations. Like China, it is an ancient primitive civilization that is still alive. Indian culture continues to absorb fresh blood from abroad and develop, and continues to develop outward, becoming the sunshine and rain of other cultures. The shadow of India is always hidden in our lives, but we may not realize it.

However, India's thinking is very different from ours. Indians don't remember history until Muslims come. Ancient Indians believed that sound was eternal, so they didn't write. Therefore, India is a sea of oral myths and stories, but it is a desert of written history. The whole Indian medieval history is mainly illustrated by the records of China's Buddhist monks Faxian, Xuanzang and Yijing. Indians believe in samsara, and all efforts in life are for silence or liberation, not the pursuit of immortality. Indians emphasize cause and effect, because action is the result, and the result is the embodiment of cause at another time. Indians have developed the idea that everything is empty. Grammatically speaking, Sanskrit says that all nouns come from verbs, and what is visible and tangible is only the result of some actions or states.

The history of India seems clear to us. The latest view of molecular anthropology, which believes that human beings originated in Africa, holds that human beings from East Asia, North Asia and even the American continent migrated from Africa through the South Asian subcontinent. Archaeology has proved that as early as 4,500 years ago, ancient Indians began to live in brick buildings in cities with baths, kneading some beautiful gods and carving beautiful images and possible text symbols on seals.

After the Vedas, Brahma Books, Forest Books and Upanishads are comparable to pre-Qin philosophers and ancient Greek philosophy. Upanishads are the source of all Indian thoughts in later generations. It has got rid of the passion of sacrifice and is discussing "Brahma is like me" (the ontology of the world and the soul of the individual are the same). It also mentions reincarnation and karma. This is the age of Confucius and Socrates. India has produced anti-Shamanism thoughts such as Jainism, Shunshi, Buddhism and six orthodox Brahmanism philosophies in extremely active ideological activities. Buddha Sakyamuni, who advocated the middle way, was the most brilliant among the ideological stars that emerged at this time. Out of great compassion for all beings, he realized the four noble truths of suffering, gathering, extinction and Taoism and founded Buddhism. Buddhism emphasizes that all life is equal, and you can get rid of it by keeping precepts, meditation and wisdom, eliminating delusions and desires. Its flexibility and openness enable it to glow with great vitality in different cultural environments, thus changing the historical outlook of the world and affecting all aspects of life from generation to generation.