Introduction: Many countries in the history of the world have their own brilliant civilizations, including many different customs and habits, such as: the taboo number in the United States is "13", shoes can not be taken off, will be considered very impolite, can not stick out their tongues, stick out their tongues will be considered to look down on people. Thailand's Songkran Festival is very grand, the national holiday is seven days, the whole country celebrates, will organize a beauty contest to select the most beautiful girls in the country. There is also an old saying in China that it is called going into the countryside and following customs, and respecting the cultural differences of various places is the way to deal with the world. There are different traditional cultures around the world, and there have been many cultural bad habits in ancient times, so the author will briefly introduce the three famous cultural bad habits in the world.
First, foot binding in ancient China
Foot binding is a bad habit in ancient China, in ancient times, in addition to judging the appearance of women, there must also be a "three-inch golden lotus" saying. Foot binding appeared very early, as early as the Xia, Shang, Spring and Autumn Warring States have been recorded, prevailing during the Southern Song Dynasty. The original rise of foot binding is due to the female foot binding, so that the feet look bent like a crescent moon, wearing plain socks on the lotus platform dancing looks more beautiful, and then the Ming and Qing Dynasties gradually changed the taste, foot binding is popular among various classes, whether rich or poor have tied feet, and "three inches of golden lotus" is the most perfect effect of foot binding.
In fact, female foot binding is a kind of criticism is also a bad habit, after foot binding, the foot bones are deformed, walking is unstable, and can not bear weight, so women after foot binding is basically the door is not out of the second door, can not do physical work, when the foot wrapping of women will be considered a good family women, foot binding makes women more weak. From the end of the Qing Dynasty, people gradually realized that foot binding was actually a means of suppressing women, and in the Republic of China period, the Republic of China government represented by Sun Yat-sen strictly banned foot binding, and since then the bad habit of foot binding has gradually disappeared.
Second, the corset of Europe
In the European royal family in the 19th century, women began to popularize the corset, which made women's waists look more slender and more elegant to walk around. Corsets were mainly popular at the French court. And there is such a story about the corset: when a queen of France was unexpectedly pregnant, she thought she was ashamed, and she was more afraid that people would know that it would affect her authority, so she wrapped her abdomen layer by layer with cloth strips, but she did not expect to play a good effect, outsiders could not see that she was pregnant, and her waist looked slender and good-looking.
Unexpectedly, her practice made many unknown young girls imitate it, becoming a popular wave. Girls are not satisfied with the effect of winding with the cloth strip, actually the corset should become a metal texture, to know that the cloth strip has a certain elasticity, metal fixed waist, the effect may be better, but the damage to the body is very huge, many girls because of the long-term use of metal corset, resulting in long-term loss of appetite, and even the internal organs of the body are damaged, in order to pursue the slender waist, some people get sick, there are also people who die, it is really pitiful to the extreme, it seems very ignorant.
Third, the black teeth of Japan
This bad habit of Japan makes people look a little difficult to accept now, black teeth this custom in Southeast Asia has been since ancient times, especially in Japan is the most prominent, in ancient times there was no toothpaste to clean teeth, and people in these areas especially like to chew betel nut, resulting in black teeth blackened, after years of development, Japan to this black tooth traditional culture as beauty, and in ancient Japan, people will have black teeth as respect, think that this is a symbol of aristocratic status and status.
Ancient Japanese people will be iron, porridge, tea, wheat, vinegar wine and other mixtures together, put in the shade for two months to let these substances ferment, thus making iron slurry water, this water is generally full of foul odor, with five times the powder mixed, it becomes its smelly and black pigment, and finally use poplar branches as a "toothbrush", repeatedly smeared on the teeth, it becomes black teeth. This unusual aesthetic is incredible, and it is extremely unhygienic, and this bad habit is really disgusting.