"The son is silent, and the strange force is chaotic." There are always some external factors that cannot yet be explained by science, so people attribute it to the power of ghosts and gods.
Many people have childhood shadows, and when they watch "Chat Zai Zhiyi" with their parents or read some more thrilling novels when they are young, there will always be some impressive fragments that become lingering shadows. There used to be a kind of circus in some rural areas, and the "vase girl" in it can be described as a childhood nightmare for many people, which attracted many people to watch it and believe it.
In the nineties, watching circus performances became the main way for people to entertain themselves, and people were very enthusiastic about this kind of activity, so some people made some attractive projects in the circus in order to make money to let people buy tickets to watch. Ticket prices were cheap, and it only cost five or ten bucks to see a circus show.
The most popular person in the performance is the "Vase Girl", who looks like she grew in a very brightly colored vase, without flaws. And the circus staff will also tell the legendary story of the "Vase Girl" in a mysterious way, which will make the audience stunned. Some circus people say that the "Vase Girl" is a strange species born of monsters and human girls. Because the identity is very special, it cannot be accepted by the public, and when they fall in love, they give birth to a small baby, the body structure of this small baby is very special, there is no bone, no skin, and it can only survive in a bottle.
This is obviously a lie specially fabricated by the circus people in order to arouse everyone's curiosity. At that time, almost every acrobatic troupe claimed that its acrobatic troupe had the smallest girl in the world, and this girl was small enough to fit in a bottle. They said to the outside world that the "vase girl" eats a special diet different from ordinary people, and can not forcibly open the bottle, if it is opened, it will endanger the life of the vase girl, after a series of fabrications and coaxing by these people, many people believe it.
Circus people will also let these little girls sing, you can also ask the "vase girl" question, each question "vase girl" as prepared in advance as the answer is flowing, after asking the "vase girl" question, you have to reward the circus. When some young viewers are curious about little girls, they ask their parents why they are being kept in bottles.
In order to make their children obedient, most parents have to say that because they are not obedient enough, they are sold into the circus by their parents and are not allowed to eat and work, and they are hungry and thin and put into vases. If you don't obey, you will be sold into this circus and become a "vase girl". This rhetoric frightened some small audience members on the spot, so much so that it could become a childhood nightmare for some people.
The principle behind the "Vase Girl" is actually that the manipulator uses the visual illusion created by combining special props and scientific laws to deceive the brain with visual effects. Therefore, some circuses will also let the little girls crouch behind the box, place the vase in front of her and form a vertex with the vase at 90 degrees, and put a 90-degree flat mirror between the vase and the person, and form a 45-degree angle between the flat mirror and the vase.
Under this ingenious angle, the illusion on both sides gives the visual effect of being a person in a vase. Directly blocking the girl's body in the flat mirror and combining it with the dim lighting effect, the naked eye can only see the exposed head.
In the era when science and technology were not developed enough, the deception of the "vase girl" did deceive a wave of audiences, and the technical difficulty of the operation of the "vase girl" was not great, and it was only necessary to arrange the props prepared in advance one by one according to the angle, and then start telling the "mysterious" fabricated story to achieve the desired purpose and earn unjust benefits.
They use the knowledge of light refraction and reflection to seize the curiosity of the public to push the performance to a climax. This "vase girl" deception is only performed in some villages, and it is easy to be punctured in towns with a relatively better degree of development.
In the process of social development, people's education level is also constantly improving, and this kind of low-level "vase girl" play can no longer meet people's cultural needs. In the 1990s. It is very wrong for the circus people to use this deceptive way to accumulate wealth, and deceive many simple and honest villagers.
In 2017, someone put this scam on the stage again, in the ancient village of Weiji in Shandong Province, someone needed to pay ten yuan for an entrance fee if they wanted to see it. The "vase girl" inside said that she was 18 years old and had been put into this small bottle since she was a child, and as a result, it was publicly recognized and debunked.
Many people are obsessed with magic and trickery, but these can only be entertainment, they are a trick after all, not real. The "Vase Girl" incident also fully demonstrates that it is not correct to use people's curiosity to deceive people, and it will be condemned. In order to grasp the appetite of the masses, it is necessary to innovate the old and seek a new way out.
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