In our neighboring country, Myanmar, there is a nation-the long-necked clan. As can be seen from the name, people in this nation have slender necks. In their nation, slender necks are beautiful, and women with longer necks are more beautiful in their eyes.
You know, as a normal person, the normal height of a person's neck is only 10 to 18 cm, but for the long-necked people who are looking for a long neck, the neck length can generally reach 30 cm. How did they increase the length?
It turns out that when they were young, they had to wear a special copper ring to gradually increase the length of their necks. For men, this way will affect work efficiency and make them unable to support a family. Therefore, women with long necks usually do this.
The longest neck of women living in the long-necked ethnic group is an astonishing 70 cm. For the sake of slender neck, long-necked women will wear copper rings with this feature from an early age to gradually lengthen their necks. When they were young, they would take it off once a year and then increase the length of the copper ring. When they are adults, they can only take them off three times in their lives when they get married, grow up and die.
You know, I usually hang something a little heavier around my neck, and I can't eat it soon. Long-necked people want to hang so many special copper rings around their necks, so many people also want to know what the women of long-necked people look like after removing the copper rings.
Even many people doubt whether the neck can bear the weight of the head after removing the copper ring from the neck. However, it won't. Wearing copper rings for a long time will make their necks slender, but relying on the strength of bones can still support the weight of their necks.
But when their necks leave the copper ring, their necks are much more fragile than normal people, because heavy copper rings can protect their necks, but wearing them for a long time will still have a great impact on their health and life. I have to say that this unique custom is still incredible.
Because they have a copper ring hanging around their necks for a long time, they can only put straws into the copper ring when taking a bath. Only this kind of friction like a saw can simply clean up the dust on their necks. For the strange beauty that this nation has formed for a long time, they put on a very heavy copper ring, just like prisoners put on heavy shackles, showing the cruel beauty of their nation to the world.
As for how this deformed aesthetic is formed, why women in the long neck family wear bronze rings has always been an unsolved mystery. Some people say it is a beautiful representative of ancient matriarchal society, others say it is to scare away wild animals and enemies, and others say it comes from the worship of long-necked dragons, but until now there is no accurate answer.
At present, the total population of the long-necked ethnic group in Myanmar is less than 30,000, and life is very difficult. Apart from men fishing and farming for a living, they can only attract some foreign tourists by their special physical appearance and buy some handicrafts for a living. Driven by curiosity, tourists often experience the feeling of wearing a copper ring, which is fine at first, but will be very uncomfortable after a long time.
Although "a hundred miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs", but the size of the world, different places, different countries' customs and cultures will be very different. Even many customs may sound incredible, but they do exist.
Although we dare not agree with some of these peculiar customs, we still have to respect the customs of other nationalities. After all, existence is reasonable. We cannot expect everyone to be like us. In their eyes, some habits of our Chinese nation are beyond outsiders' understanding.