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In human society, it seems that height has always been valued, especially for men, and even often become a common criterion for choosing a mate.
Once happened to go out, saw a friend's child, cold not for a long time, it has been higher than the friend's body, at least 1.75 meters, and the height of less than 1.7 meters of friends when introduced the face is quite colorful, can not help but emphasize that the child is only 13 years old. It is no wonder that friends are proud, and they rarely go out, and they can't help but be surprised that a 13-year-old child has such a height.
At first, I thought that this was just a case, but with the increase in the number of times I went out, it was found that today's children really follow the improvement of living standards, and the proportion of height abounds, which is already a common phenomenon. Of course, this has a lot to do with the improvement of the current material level, and I believe it also has a lot to do with the importance that parents attach to their children's height from a young age. Jun, now the social increase in health care products is simply dazzling, advertising is also everywhere, which has become a huge market.
Chinese society's requirements for height have always had a long tradition, far from it, just in the 1970s and 1980s, familiar friends knew that one of the important criteria for choosing objects is height. Men below 1 meter 7 are basically semi-crippled. And women don't think it doesn't matter, there are requirements, a popular old saying at that time is like this: "Daddy is one, mom is a nest", which means that women's height is also very important, and it directly affects the quality of the overall offspring.
There was once a relative who had a very good personality, good looks, and a good job. Is the size really can not take the hand, only 1 meter 5 a few, so it is conceivable, love has become a big difficulty, repeatedly talked about blowing, his mother pulled my mother to cry and complain several times, so that my mother also followed the blind hurry, and finally simply wanted to cut my tall to cut a piece of his posture.
With the progress of society, in today's materially developed, the standard of "semi-crippled" has been adjusted again, and the standard estimation of 1.7 meters has been included in this rank. This seems like no one should doubt. Today for height! What people value is the eye-catching on the sports field, the decency in social occasions, not only the factors such as "getting your hands on it" when introducing it to others, but also the consideration of the previous "suitable for future generations and suitable future generations".
In fact, from the perspective of the world, most of the population today is basically between 1.6 and 1.7 meters in height, and the average height of people in northern Europe is higher, but it is basically between 1.8 and 1.9 meters. However, many people in today's society seem to have walked into a misunderstanding of height awareness, is height really worthy of such admiration? Let's take a look at history.
Robert. Wardlow
In fact, objectively speaking, from the perspective of the development process of history, God does not seem to want to see the tall race, and has eliminated them from the fierce competition of human evolution early. By far the highest recorded person in human photography is Robert. Wardlow (2.72 m) died at the age of 22. Therefore, we can only imagine the unique style of giants in the classics and relics handed down by various ancient civilizations, as well as in the bones of ancient tombs.
Throw aside the news that has been confirmed so far, as well as the exaggerated description of the size of people and dinosaurs on South American stone carvings, combined with most of the historical records of various ethnic groups, there have almost certainly been some tall giant races around the world, and the general height is about 2-5 meters.
Another example is that the prehistoric relics left behind, such as the great stone circles in Britain, the countless megaliths of the Pyramids in Egypt, the huge paintings of the Nazca Plain in Peru, and the tall portraits of Easter Island, have been inferred that non-giants were not competent in the extremely backward productivity of the time.
As a more civilized China, many ancient texts have also been recorded, such as the female ancestor of the Zhou people, Jiang Yuan, who once stepped on the footprints of giants. Tall giants have also been seen in ancient China, and the entire tribe is recorded. They are the Wang Mang clan who lived in the Jiangnan area more than 4,000 years ago.
Speaking of which, it must be said that on the historical record, Chinese civilization can be much more advanced and rigorous than Western civilization, as the birthplace of European civilization, Greece, Europeans have long used works of art such as Homer's Epic to trace their history, and for the other two important human civilizations Egypt and the Near East, Europeans often like to use some records in the Old Testament of the Bible to explain their history.
But to be honest, these fanciful, almost fantasy works, we can often see the story of human giants and monsters and gods wrestling, and these human giants are more than ten meters tall at every turn, and their credibility is really not high.
Giants are common creatures in human myths or fairy tales, and there are traces or legends of them all over the world, and in Chinese mythology, there are also many traces of giants: such as the earth-breaking Pangu, the sun-chasing Father, and the windproof clan that assisted Dayu in ancient mythology to control the flood.
But the myth is good to listen to, and the legend is also for reference. But historical data should be taken seriously. There are indeed many records of giants in the historical materials left by China. At that time, the "Book of Han" recorded that Qin Shi Huang cast the twelve golden people, because at that time there were twelve "giants with a length of five inches" in the Qin Dynasty, and Qin Shi Huang thought it was Xiang Rui after hearing about it, so he collected the world's weapons to imitate its image and cast twelve golden people.
In the "Biography of Wang Mang in the Book of Han" also records the deeds of a giant, it is said that in 14 AD, the world was in chaos, the Xiongnu endangered the border, and the domestic rebels were everywhere, and Taishou Hanbo recommended a general to Wang Mang, saying: "There are Qishi, Changzhang, Dashiwei, come to the palace, and want to fight against Hu Yu." Self-proclaimed giant, out of the southeast of Penglai. ”
The Biography of King Mang of the Book of Han
It is said that ordinary cars could not fit him, and the crowd had to use several special giant carts on horseback to transport people to the capital. It is said that this "giant bully" used a large drum as a pillow for sleeping, and he had to use iron chopsticks to eat, and his clothing came from the skin of a tiger and leopard.
The ancient "Yizhang" is equivalent to the current 2 to 3 meters, and it can be roughly seen that the "Giant Bully" should be a giant with a height of nearly 3 meters. Later, it is also recounted that when Wang Mang attacked the Green Forest Army, he organized an army of 400,000 people, and the lieutenant of the army at that time was Ju Wuba himself, and at that time he also brought tigers, leopards, rhinos, elephants and other beasts to help.
There is a similar record in the Taiping Guangji: "In the second year of Jin Yongjia, there were birds gathered in Shi'an County, and the wooden arrows were penetrated, and the iron hammers were six and a half inches long, and when counted by arrows, their shooters should be five or six feet long." ”
We can look at a length of about 4 meters at a height of five or six feet, which shows that this shooter is definitely a super giant. However, "Taiping Guangji" is mostly of a strange nature, and its credibility is really not high, so it is better to use it as a novel pastime.
However, at the entrance of many ancient tombs today, there stands a tall stone man, whose name is "Weng Zhong". This is a true story about giants. In the historical records about the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang had a fierce general named "Ruan Weng Zhong", who was one foot tall and three feet tall, about 2.5 meters now, Xiao Yong was abnormal, threatening the Xiongnu, after his death, the First Emperor cast a bronze statue according to his appearance and placed it outside the xianyang Palace to deter the Xiongnu. Later, Nguyen Ong Trung's image slowly evolved into a tomb-keeping giant.
The so-called giants recorded in these ancient histories should not be like the giants that have been infinitely exaggerated in Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, but should be similar to people who are more than two meters tall today. The giant of modern China, the most famous is Zhan Shichao (1841-1893) of the Qing Dynasty, born in the Daoguang years and died in the Guangxu years, with a height of 244 centimeters (Yao Mingcai was 229 centimeters tall).
Zhan Shichao
Therefore, with the increasing number of written accounts in historical records, coupled with the emergence of many archaeological excavations, we can know that giants have indeed appeared in human history.
In particular, the unearthed things are the most powerful proof of the existence of giants, and nearly 90 centimeters of human footprints have been found in Kansas, USA. In Turkey and other places, huge human bones have been unearthed, some femurs are as long as 120 centimeters, and modern people with a height of 1 meter and 8 meters can completely pass through their crotches without any obstacles.
More than a decade ago, Chinese archaeologists also found several mysterious coffins in Xinjiang, which are scientifically identified as originating more than 5,000 years ago and are all human remains. The bones unearthed this time are different from ordinary people, and each root is almost twice as wide and long as modern humans. When archaeologists pieced together all the bones into a skeleton, a giant humanoid skeleton with a height of 3 meters appeared. This also fully proves that there have indeed been giants as high as several meters in Chinese history.
In China's historical records, there are indeed many giants, but it is this one that makes people feel the most real and interesting.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu attacked and defeated, and the capital of the country fell. While counting the spoils, Wu Jun found a huge bone stored in the Yue Palace. People's curiosity is the most difficult to control, Wu Wang Fucha is no exception, curiosity suddenly burst, but the captured Yue people can not tell the source of this giant bone, and finally Wu Guoren thought of the world's first scholar and chief cultural relics appraisal expert recognized at that time: Confucius.
So I went to the old man's house for advice. The old man answered this question clearly and completely. At that time, Dayu was the leader of the various tribes at the Huiji Mountain Assembly, and the Fengfeng clan was late in coming. Dayu had seen that this guy was not pleasing to the eye, and in order to establish his authority, he took the opportunity to kill a hundred people and killed the Windproof Clan.
The ancients have always had the custom of showing off the bones of the enemy as exhibits, and the king of the Yue kingdom is the descendant of Dayu, so the bones of the Windproof Clan are left in the treasury of the Yue Kingdom, but with the passage of time, people gradually forget.
The old man also gave Wu Guoren a popular science road: the remains of the windproof clan are the largest of the human bones and need to be transported by special car. He is the leader of the Wang Mang clan and takes the surname "Qi". The Wang mangshi passed through the Yu, Xia, and Shang dynasties, and was called "Changdi" in the Zhou Dynasty, and was also called "Adult" in the Spring and Autumn Period. We can see that the "long" and "big" here are obviously related to height and body type.
The old man also said at that time that the shortest of the Yu Clan was only three feet tall, and the tallest person was ten times taller, and there was no taller. According to this, the windproof is about three feet tall. Even if his people are not so genetically superior, the shorter estimate must reach two zhang. Maybe seeing this, some people will say that Mr. Jonny is a nonsense, and it is certainly unreliable. This person was powerless to refute, but The sage Kong had traveled around the world and seen the archives of various countries at that time, so he knew some ancient secrets, which should be more credible.
For example, once Confucius was in Chen Guo, he just happened to encounter an eagle that fell into the courtyard of Chen Hou's palace and died. He carried a long arrow that shot through his body. This long arrow is very distinctive, unlike the Central Plains, the arrow cluster is stony, more than a foot long. Chen Hou was very curious, so he asked someone to take the dead eagle and ask Mr. Kong Lao.
Without hesitation, the old master unveiled the source of the stone cluster, which was the unique weapon of the Northeast Su Shen Clan. He also told Hou Chen that as early as the early years of the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Chen Hou's ancestors had paid tribute to King Wu, and King Wu gave the ancestors of the Chen family a lady named Daji. So long ago to know? Chen Hou was a little unbelieving, and when he went back, he quickly checked the canonical books, and it turned out that there was really such a thing. Since then, Chen Hou has admired his master's profound knowledge. It can be seen from this that the story of the Windproof Clan, Mr. Kong must also have some basis.
However, the old man also said that although the Wang Mang clan has a history of nearly a thousand years, it has always been poor, limited to a corner, and eventually disappeared, so it is little known.
Abroad, American Indians have confirmed the existence of giants. There is a widely circulated story in Nevada, many years ago, there lived a red-haired giant tribe, very fierce, like to eat people. No one knows where they came from, or who came to the land earlier than the Indians.
But although these giants were powerful, their intelligence was not high, and after many years of fighting with the Indians, they were finally defeated by the Paiut tribe of Indians who attacked their lairs with fire. But it is still not known whether it was completely wiped out, or whether these giants were far away. In the last century, the remains of these red-haired giants were dug up in a cave, and each person was more than two meters tall.
Speaking of which, we are going to explore a very intriguing topic, we can not deny that as an ancient time of low productivity, having strong power has an incomparable advantage over other ethnic groups, and it is reasonable to say that giants have more ability to survive in the harsh environment at that time. But we see that today's society, which reaches two meters in height, is already standing out from the crowd, why did the giant clan disappear from the long river of history? Personally, I think there are several main reasons:
First, the body's huge need for energy
We know that any animal needs food as energy to keep the body functioning. Because of its huge size, the energy consumed by giants is even greater. In ancient times, under the backward productivity, food sources were limited, and the giants were relatively inferior in intelligence, in today's parlance, "simple minds and developed limbs", as exemplified by the above-mentioned red-haired giants who were wiped out in a struggle with Indians who were far weaker than themselves.
Therefore, in the harsh natural environment, giants need a lot of food, but they can only rely on the advantages of the body and some simple tools to obtain, and such a body structure must be supported by high-protein foods such as meat, and only plant fruits cannot be maintained. So, once the environment changes, as the animals are greatly reduced, their relatively low intelligence makes it impossible for them to develop more tools such as bows and arrows to obtain food. The eventual extinction is therefore inevitable.
In ancient times, changes in the climate and environment were devastating to large organisms. Such as the historical dinosaurs, a scientific study is due to the earth's glacial climate, resulting in the death of a large number of animals and plants, and eventually led to the extinction of the top organisms in this biological chain due to lack of food.
Second, the irrationality of the body structure
Now scientists believe that the highest human maximum is less than 2.5 meters, which is already the limit of the human body structure. No matter how high the lower limb bones are, they will be under great pressure.
As a close relative of humans, there have indeed been "tall" 3 meters in history of giant apes, there are fossils as evidence, but when the apes walk on all fours, the limbs share the pressure of weight, and humans as Homo erectus, the weight pressure brought by height is on both legs, if it is too tall and too large, the pressure of the legs and bones will be multiplied, it is easy to have problems, and in ancient times, giants hunted basically by running ability, and once the leg problems occur over time, it is a devastating blow.
The giant apes have long been extinct due to environmental changes and the restrictions of various natural conditions. As a giant who is relatively less viable in nature, his ability to survive because of his physiological structural defects is even more imaginable.
Third, the reproductive ability of giants
This brings us to the point of this article, in the biological world, there is a strange phenomenon, small organisms are very strong in reproduction, while large organisms are relatively weak in reproduction. For example, we see that rats, insects and other organisms have terrible reproductive ability, while tigers and elephants often only produce once every few years.
Friends who have grown vegetables may know that all the crazy long poles or vines in the vegetable field are not very fruitful, which also proves that tall children have no genetic advantages. And an iron law of the biological world is that the growth of a species must rely on the ability to reproduce. The reason why Xiao Qiang has been called Xiao Qiang for billions of years and has existed to this day is because of its strong reproductive ability. The same was true of ancient humans, where the main purpose of tribal battles was to rob each other's women.
Therefore, this is a fatal physical defect of the giants, even much higher than the two points mentioned above, under the influence of such physical and intellectual defects, they simply do not have the strength to compete with other races in the cruel natural world for a long time, even if they dominate for a while, it will not last long.
Therefore, from ancient times to the present, tall people have always been "rare" or "endangered", which is generally in line with the law of natural survival competition. Personally, I have always felt that it is not so much that the current tall man is well-nourished and fully developed, but rather that it is the surviving genes of the ancient giants, or the mutation of some gene. From a biological point of view, they should be a weak branch of human development and never constitute a general development trend.
So today, there is a theory in the scientific community that the height of human beings will gradually be dwarfed in the future, and individuals think that the direction of the historical future is likely to verify this view.
For example, today, the mate selection standards of girls are also quietly changing, no longer emphasizing height, but paying more attention to their ability to absorb gold, which brings the quality of life in the future and the ability to survive in response to unexpected events, perhaps this is the quiet "convergence" with the laws of nature.
Perhaps, in a few years, the girls' Prince Charming may really prefer the short and lean type, and the tall horse with its own appearance may not be favored. Therefore, short people do not have to worry, as long as you are willing to work hard, as long as you are confident, life will definitely give you a piece of the world.