We often see ancient people in TV dramas, sitting on their knees and legs together, kneeling on the mat, and sitting on the heel of the buttocks. In this sitting position, the entire weight of the person is pressed against the heel, which will cause the blood circulation in the legs to be seriously obstructed. Later, the emergence of stools also requires the buttocks to sit on the stool, knees and legs together, whether there is a chair or not, the ancients require that the knees must be together, so that the dignified atmosphere is displayed.
There is also a sitting posture called "Ji Li", which is to sit with your knees open and your legs bent. However, this sitting posture was considered to be an indecent and disrespectful sitting posture in ancient times. Therefore, it is an inhumane practice to say that the anti-"jiju" is an inhumane approach, after all, according to the ancient traditional sitting posture, the legs become paralyzed after sitting for a long time, which is very uncomfortable, but the "jiju" is more comfortable. So why is "Ji Ji" impolite and uncivilized?
"Squatting" will cause the city gates to open widely, which is very indecent. If we fantasize, a large group of men and women doing it together can easily lead to running out. Before the Western Han Dynasty, the ancients did not wear pants, and their legs were protected by separate cloth, that is, open crotch pants. At that time, "Ji Ju" was easy to cause light, so it was very indecent.
It is rumored that pants were invented by Huo Guang, also for their own selfish interests. Huo Guang ordered all the palace ladies to wear their pants, the purpose was to prevent the palace maids and the Han Zhao Emperor from having a male and female affair, so as to spoil his daughter and give himself a further say in the court. However, this is also a rumor, has not been verified, open crotch pants into a dead crotch need a process, there must be a reason to become a dead crotch. Perhaps it is precisely because of the lack of elegance that it has slowly transformed into dead crotch pants.
However, in the absence of four crotch pants appear only, because the crotch pants also make a lot of jokes. Confucius had a student named Yuan Xian, who estimated that he did not wake up that day, so he waited in class for Confucius to come and teach. Because the teacher was no longer relaxing himself, he accidentally sat in a "jiju", and when he brought Confucius to the class, he saw this look and angrily rebuked the students: "If you don't ascend to the elegance, you will have this bad habit at a young age, and you will become a thief when you are old." After saying that, he took the rattan and went to hit the knee of the student Hara Ken.
There is also the time when Liu Bang was recruiting soldiers and buying horses, Mr. Li Shi heard that Liu Bang was recruiting talents and went to look for Liu Bang. Liu Bang had just woken up in an untidy shirt at the head of the bed, and he also accidentally sat in the posture of "Ji Ji", which led to Li Shi saying that Liu Bang was arrogant and rude, and his eyes were disrespectful, and he wanted to recruit talents and leave in a rage.
These are all jokes caused by open crotch pants, but why did the ancients have to suffer from such pains? Instead of quoting a comfortable "ji lily" sitting posture? The first reason mentioned earlier is that the Western Han Dynasty was open crotch pants before, and it was easy to leak spring light. Imagine if a large group of men were discussing important matters, and one person suddenly "squatted" in this sitting position, what did other people think? The scene must be very awkward, and do not consider the affairs of men and women, in ancient times, women rarely attended the event.
Although "Ji Ji" is comfortable, it is indecent. The chassis is too stable, and it is not necessary to straighten the waist plate can also be very stable, because the waist plate is not straight enough, so it feels very loose and does not do things seriously. In the state of kneeling, because it is not easy to be stable, it is more necessary to straighten the waist, precisely because this uncomfortable state gives people a dignified atmosphere, and is respected and promoted by others.
Later, the appearance of stools, when the ancients received guests, the waist plate was straight, and could not lean behind the chair, so that it could appear dignified and atmospheric, indicating the meaning of respect for the arrival of guests. However, with the progress of the times, a variety of chairs have emerged in an endless stream, which is also to meet the needs of daily life, but it also shows the change in our concept of etiquette.
Even now, the posture of "Ji Shu" is considered to be disrespectful and neglectful of people. We are also asked to do a dignified and atmospheric point when facing important guests, which is no longer the way it was in ancient times, where we have to kneel on our knees and sit on our heels. On the contrary, we have to sit and not shake our legs, and it has changed a lot. As the saying goes, there is a sitting posture, which is what our fathers often taught us.
Summary: The Western Han Dynasty has caused many anecdotes because there is no dead crotch pants, and Xiaobian also believes that it is not that they do not respect others, but more because of the problem of sitting posture and occasion.
Etiquette seemed to be a very important science in ancient times, and all children with a little culture understood, but the kneeling posture was too uncomfortable, and only then would the sitting posture of "Ji Li" appear. If there had been no dead crotch pants and stools, I wonder how long the ancients would have suffered from this posture?