Li Zhancun's Secret of Changing Flowers and Plants Speaking of Li Zhancun, apart from its name as the first village with population and culture in China, what makes everyone curious most is the secret of changing flowers and plants. There are many strange village rules and regulations in this village. 98% of the families in Zhaili are one son and one daughter. The reason why this balance can be maintained is that the change of a flower can determine the sex of a child. It is said that this flower-changing plant is a vine growing on the mountain, and its roots can be used as medicine.
Some villagers can change the sex of the fetus by taking this medicine in the first three months of pregnancy. Flowers and roots of plants have different shapes. Eating vertically can give birth to boys, and eating horizontally can give birth to girls. Generally, before giving birth to a second child, women in the village will decide whether the second child is a boy or a girl according to the sex of the first child.
It is said that many women in the village admitted to taking flowers and plants, and they all achieved the goal of having boys and girls by themselves. Besides, it's no use just taking flowers and plants. Its function needs a magic formula. There is only one formula called. Pharmacist? Only people know. The pharmacist mastered it? Have a boy? And then what? Have a girl? These two secret recipes have been handed down from generation to generation, from female to male.
Because most families have a son and a daughter, there is not only a very balanced population, but also a very balanced number of men and women, which only increased by 100 in the 48 years from 1952 to 2000. It is said that from 1980? In 25 years in 2005, 94 boys and 93 girls were born in Li Zhancun, which is really amazing.
There are many strange village rules and regulations in this village, such as not marrying foreigners, marrying late and having children late. Because pharmacists can also prepare a herbal medicine to prevent defective babies, people in this village are very healthy, and there has never been a defective baby when they get married, even though they have not married foreigners for hundreds of years. The average life expectancy of villages is over 70 years old, and 90-year-old people are also common in villages.