Navneet：中印农村生活对比

以下是印度农村的图片：

印度农村马路

牛车

采茶人

In many of the mails that I get from the Chinese they express their desire to know more about India. Let me use this blog to compare the countryside of the two nations. One thing that I find strikingly different from the village scene in India is the absence of milch animals. Milk is the main source of nourishment in Indian diet. Milk as it is, curd, butter, ghee, buttermilk or lassi as it is called in India, form main constituents of the Indian meal in the villages. All Indian sweet meats are made using milk or milk products. On the other hand, milk I think is almost totally missing from the diet of the rural Chinese. Even in the cities, I have seen people choosing beans milk over cow’s milk.

在我收到的许多邮件中，中国朋友表达了更多了解印度的欲望。本文比较两国的农村。其中一个最大不同是你在中国农村看不到印度农村常见的奶牛。牛奶是印度人的主要营养来源。牛奶、黄油、酥油、酪乳或者说印度所称的奶昔，构成了印度农村膳食的主要部分。另一方面，我发现中国农村饮食几乎没有牛奶。就连在城市里，我也看到人们更愿意选择豆奶而不是牛奶。

只要有能力，家家户户都会养一头牛

自制的奶油

Though yogurts sell in the cities, Chinese prefer some sourish liquid milk product (which is almost same as Indian lassi), over milk. I also don’t see the animals being employed for ploughing, pulling or other menial work. Another thing that I see here in these pictures is that women are doing work which is traditionally done by men in India.

城市里有卖酸奶，中国人更喜欢吃微酸的液态奶产品（几乎与印度奶昔类似）而不是牛奶。我在中国农村没看到有动物在干犁田之类的农活。此外，中国农村妇女会做一些在印度属于传统上男人干的活。

从远处取水

妇女在农田里忙碌着

头上顶着一捆木柴

You will rarely find Indian women pulling a cycle rickshaw or still rarer, driving an auto rickshaw, ferrying things. Indian women in villages, work in the fields, fetch water, tend animals, make dung cakes and look after the kitchen and household work.

你在印度农村很少会看到妇女踩人力车，更罕见的是驾驶机动三轮车拉一些货。印度农村妇女通常是在农田里干活、取水、照料家畜、做粪饼堆和洗衣做饭。

粪饼堆，做饭的主要燃料

All work of dealing with men folk viz. taking produce to the market, selling, fetching things from the markets etc. is done by their men. Both the bicycle and the scooter seen in the pictures of the Chinese women have a baby seat attached which makes me presume that the women carry their children along with them to work. Though, I have learnt that one child policy did not apply to the village people, I believe that in the Chinese villages everybody goes out to work in contrast to the Indian villages where the elderly stay at home and take care of the children who don't yet go to school.

所有要和男人打交道的活儿，比如把农作物拿到市场上去卖，从市场采购一些东西回来等事情都由男人做。从图片上中国妇女骑的自行车和踏板车后面的婴儿座，我推测农村妇女去干活也是带着小孩。虽然我了解到一胎政策并不适用于农村，但是我相信中国农村里人人出去干活，而印度农村是老年人呆在家照看还未上学的小孩。