With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, everyone is now more and more enthusiastic about outbound tourism, going to different countries, enjoying different beautiful scenery, and feeling different customs and customs.
Japan, because of its geographical proximity to the mainland and its good scenery, has also become the choice of many travel enthusiasts.
When traveling in Japan, you may encounter many different cultural customs, such as the expression of gestures, there are many places that are different from us.
For example, from one to nine, we only need one hand to accurately express the meaning of the number, but the Japanese need to use two hands together to express the meaning.
Another example is praise, in China, if you praise others, you will give the other party a thumbs up, and in Japanese culture, the thumb in addition to praise, but also represents the meaning of men, and the little thumb is to represent women.
For example, two good friends get together, if you want to ask the other party if you have a girlfriend, you can extend your little thumb so that the other party can understand, but it should be noted that this gesture is very uncivilized, so it can not be used in public, otherwise it will be considered to be not respecting each other enough.
If you are a small partner who often travels to Japan, I don't know if you have encountered this situation, that is, in the store or shopping on the street, there will be cherry blossom girls quietly bending their index finger to you, many people do not understand what this means, because the way they bend their index finger looks like we express the number 9. But as we said just now, the Japanese don't express 9 differently than we do, so what does it mean to bend your index finger?
In fact, it is very likely that they are quietly hinting at you, and you must be extra careful in the next time, otherwise you are likely to run into trouble!
Xiaoli is a two-dimensional enthusiast, this time took advantage of the holiday, with their good girlfriends to travel to Japan, they visited a lot of places, enjoyed the beautiful cherry blossoms, also saw Japan's Mt. Fuji, and finally came to Akihabara, which is known as Japan's shopping paradise.
Here is a crowd of people, everywhere is the store, convenience store, looking at the street of goods dazzling, Xiaoli and girlfriends also quickly joined the shopping queue, however, just when she was concentrating on shopping, she suddenly saw someone in the convenience store quietly bending her index finger to them.
At first, Xiaoli didn't care, thinking that this was just a strange way of greeting, but Xiaoli didn't know him, so why did he have to greet himself? After thinking about it, Xiao Li was worried that the person just now had some bad ideas, so she pulled her girlfriend together and went to another place until she couldn't see the man just now.
However, when they were shopping and were preparing to leave, they heard someone shouting that their wallet had been stolen, and Xiao li was vigilant, took a look at her wallet, and found that it was still on her body, and the person who lost her wallet was near the location where she had just left.
Later, Xiaoli looked for the man who had just made the gesture in the store, but the man had already left the store, so she had to ask others for advice, until they went to a Chinese restaurant to eat, she did not know that the original Japanese bent their index fingers meant that there was a thief.
Therefore, if you are traveling in Japan and someone bends your index finger to you, then you must pay attention to your surroundings, take care of your belongings, and avoid being "patronized" by thieves.
Some people may ask, if someone finds a thief, why not shout it out directly, but quietly gesture? If others don't understand the meaning of the gestures, or don't see them, won't the thief succeed? In fact, these are due to cultural differences, in Japan, there are very few people who directly have thieves on the street, and they will not go near you to remind you, but only remind you in a distant place, which is also a habit of their lives.
In addition, there are some gestures in Japan that express different meanings, for example, when we want to express money, we use our thumbs to rub the index and middle fingers back and forth to simulate the action of counting money, while in Japan, we use our thumbs and index fingers to circle into a circle, and the palms of the hands are up.
Or maybe the Japanese express "yes" and "no" differently than we are used to, where we use nods and shakes of the head to express "yes" and cross their hands in front of them to express "no."
Of course, the culture and customs and habits of each country are different, if you decide to travel to certain places, you must first understand the local traditions and habits, in addition to these, do you also know those Japanese customs and habits?
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