Many people who love beauty will have pierced their ears, maybe one or a dozen, and some who pursue excitement or watch others hit somewhere else will also want to try to punch holes in the upper lips of the nose and wear beautiful jewelry. These are all normal, but have you ever seen punching an oversized hole in the lower lip and putting a thick stick in it? Just describing it, you can feel a pain in your lower lip, not to mention anything else.
These strange people are the primitive tribes of Brazil that I want to introduce to you today- Zoe, who live in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, are Indians, the least numerous in Brazil, and the most completely preserved primitive tribe. The tribe currently has less than two hundred people, the Zoe.
There are 4 villages where they live, but the distance of each village is very long, some tens of kilometers, some up to hundreds of kilometers, so they often do not meet. The Zoe people generally have 2 kinds of way of life, the first is the settled life, which is the life of most people now, and the second is the life of the hunter, that is, there is no fixed place to live, and people who live by hunting.
Like other primitive tribes, the Zoe people also do not wear clothes, regardless of men, women and children, most of them are like this, it can be said that in their cognition there is no concept of clothes, but sometimes they also use leaves, flowers and other plants to cover the key parts.
The Zoe people worship the moon and believe that their ancestors lived on it, so they often sing and dance when the moon is full and the moon is full, and they also hold some kind of ritual. Before, this group of people was very afraid of white people, because they had been bullied by white people, but they were found to be reclusive, and later found that white people did not mean to hurt them, so they were allowed to enter their territory to visit.
But it is difficult to meet these people, because Brazil prohibits outsiders from entering here in order to protect the living environment of the Zoe people from being destroyed, and in order not to let outsiders disturb them, but there are also some documentaries that record the lives of the Zoe people.
The Zoe and other primitive tribes lived in similar conditions, hunted to feed themselves, and struggled every day to feed themselves. But the difference is that they are very smart and will make some stone tools themselves, and then grow some crops such as cassava to feed themselves.
And the most notable feature is the thick wooden stick on the chin. It is reported that the local child 10 years old represents adulthood, during the coming-of-age ceremony, parents will take out a white-skinned wooden stick, through the child's lips, and then this wooden stick will always hang on your lower lip, the length will exceed the chin. Because in their opinion, men wearing sticks are more masculine and women are more beautiful.
Of course, it is not hard to wear a wooden stick at the age of ten, and at the age of seven or eight, you will thinn the place where your lower lip is going to wear the stick, and then wear your chin to prepare for the 10-year-old coming-of-age ceremony. In the life of the Zoe, this stick can only be changed three times, this is with age and height, the largest is a wooden stick with a diameter of 2 centimeters and a length of 18 centimeters hanging from the lower lip.
Even if you feel inconvenient, or if your mouth can't be closed, you always have to wear it. Of course, they who have always been accustomed to wooden sticks will not feel that wooden sticks are in the way.
In fact, is this not a bad habit? This will only deform their mouth and chin, just like the long-necked people who wear collars and the lip plates with plates in their mouths, which may be considered beautiful by the locals, which may be enough!
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