A friend of xiaobian suddenly asked me two days ago, how do you usually cut your toenails, especially your little toes. I was surprised and inquired for half a day to learn that my friend's little toenails were two-lobed, and every time I trimmed it, I would bleed, making him miserable.
What's even more amazing is that my friend has always thought that everyone's little toenails are two-lobed, because their family is all two-lobed small toenails...
This made Xiaobian interested, because the people around Xiaobian were all complete small toenails. In order to find out, Xiaobian asked many friends one after another, including Hunan, Guangdong, Henan, and all over the country, and finally found a surprising fact.
Friends near Shaanxi in northern Shanxi are almost all two-lobed small toenails, while there are many fewer near Guangxi in Guangdong.
Are the two small toenails still divided into north and south?
With doubts, Xiaobian consulted a large number of materials. Sure enough, someone has already discovered this problem and conducted more in-depth research.
Many people think that their little toenails are divided into two lobes because of illness or malnutrition. But after years of pruning, two petals are still two petals, so this idea is ruled out. In medicine, calling this condition a valular nail and a tarsal nail is a normal phenomenon, and the reason for this is the most widely circulated saying.
Legend has it that during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty more than 640 years ago, the imperial court spent decades relocating the thriving Shanxi people to the Central Plains in order to fill the population in the Central Plains such as Yuluji, where the population had been in turmoil for many years and the population had declined sharply.
Legend has it that the Shanxi people were gathered under the big locust tree in Hongdong County, and the soldiers responsible for escorting them cut a knife on each person's little toe, so that anyone who saw a crack in the little toe or a split toenail in the future was a Shanxi immigrant. This legend has been passed down to this day, and many Shanxi immigrant families have been handed down from generation to generation, and there is a folk song that says: "Whoever has two petals of his small toenails is a child under a large locust tree." ”
This statement is, of course, superstitious, and we also know that knife wounds are not inherited. More than 600 years ago, a knife was so powerful that the wound was passed down from generation to generation? This is as absurd as the claim that the offspring of the blind are blind and the offspring of the crippled are all crippled.
What's going on?
Just when the editor was confused, the reversal came.
Genetics proves that the small toenail segment is really related to Shanxi immigrants.
In 2005, Bian Jianchao, associate professor of the Epidemiology Research Office of the School of Public Health of Fudan University, and Hao Weiguo, a graduate student, made a genetic investigation and research on the legend of the tarsal armor from Hongdong. The results showed that the proportion of lobed nails decreased from The starting point of Shanxi to the southeast, which coincided with the historical migration history. This suggests that the distribution of the petal-like nails is indeed related to Shanxi migration. The proportions of lobular nails in the seven provinces surveyed in Jin, Shaanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Gansu and Fujian were 79.17%, 79.51%, 63.74%, 62.45%, 62.54%, 36.29% and 37.80%, respectively.
This discovery refreshed the three views of the editor, is it true that knife wounds can be inherited? Experts explained that before the Ming Dynasty's great migration, Shanxi was a place where Han people and ethnic minorities lived together, the two sides were integrated very thoroughly, and various ethnic characteristics became more and more obvious after generations of integration, and researchers such as Bian Jianchao and Hao Weiguo further speculated that the petal-like armor may be a physiological feature of the ancient Huaxia ethnic group, and another possibility is that this is the physiological characteristics of an ancient ethnic minority that has long been integrated into the Han nationality, in short, it is the product of ethnic integration.
Mixed-race children have different advantages of both parents, and they will appear to be particularly outstanding, whether it is appearance or IQ. And the friend who has two small toenails is the crystallization of our ancient Chinese ancestors' preferential breeding, perhaps there is some kind of extremely high talent hidden in your genes, and it will shine and develop its grand plan one day in the future.
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