Rollo Original: A fifties Arctic Inuit documentary that hides a huge secret, perhaps related to you and me.
Today I rummaged through the video library and finally found a Canadian Inuit documentary from the 50s. In fact, I was looking for the older Inuit documentaries, hoping to find the content I wanted. I've seen a lot of modern Inuit life films, and there's a modern Inuit custom that no longer exists.
Sure enough, I finally found what I was looking for...
Here's my explanation:
There is a custom in the world that only Chinese has, and that is "kneeling". All other peoples in the world, without a seat, are "sitting cross-legged."
If you say that the Japanese also kneel, you are wrong, the Japanese began to implement kneeling after the Tang Dynasty, in contact with mainland China, and the introduction of the Tang Dynasty etiquette system. Before that, the Japanese were also sitting cross-legged.
If you think about it, from the ancient Mongols, Jurchens, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, to other ethnic minorities in China, Tibetan, Mongolian, Yi, Qiang, bai, etc., are all "sitting on the sidelines."
Why are Han Chinese so special? From the pre-Qin dynasty to the Song Dynasty, which has been recorded in history, it is "kneeling", and it should be known that this is a kind of sitting method against human physiological functions. No one likes to use the "kneeling" approach on hard ground. It would be nice for ordinary people to be able to hold out for ten minutes.
And the Han people have been "sitting on their knees" for three thousand years....., why? Tell me what you think in the comments section.
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