Introduction: We all know that there are 56 ethnic groups in China, in fact, there are many people in the world who are not familiar with them, such as the Eskimos, this race mainly lives in the Arctic, before the 19th century still retained a very traditional mode of life, the men in the family are the main labor force, they will go out hunting to make a living, women at home to sew and mend, like our country before the male cultivators and women weaving.
Because the Arctic is a very cold area, not suitable for the survival of plants, although the local people will also use fire, but ordinary materials can not meet the survival needs of humans, so they will use seal grease as fuel to burn, because obtaining such fuel is very troublesome, so the Eskimos they retain the habit of eating raw food.
If you just eat fish every day, you will make your diet very simple, so the Eskimos will hunt different foods according to the change of seasons, in the summer they will hunt reindeer and salmon, in the winter they will replenish food such as seals, in the case of food can not eat, they will store it, so as not to have a bad environment and starve to death.
Because the things available in the Arctic are very limited, most of their hunting tools are related to the remains of animals, such as making clothes with seal-skinned reindeer skins, grinding needles from the bones of posters and bones of the heart, and the way of life is very simple and very difficult.
After the men have enough food, they will take this food home and let the wife make it, because the Arctic is very dangerous, so they are all small groups to survive together, usually each group has about 20 to 30 people, and those who get the prey will also share the food they get with other people.
Many people think that this way of life should be very unhealthy, but the Eskimos have always maintained this monogamous living tradition, only a very few very capable men, they will marry several wives at the same time, but when men move with the animals, they are likely to be unable to take their wives away, so they leave their wives to friends, during which friends and wives may also have some indescribable relationship.
In the Eskimos, it is relatively common to treat guests with wives, and many people feel that it may not be in line with ethics, but because the local living environment is relatively harsh, everyone needs to rely on each other and pay each other to survive better, so they have evolved such a way of life.
And because the Arctic living environment is very harsh, so the number of Eskimos is also very limited, their genes are also very single, Eskimos let their wives accompany other guests, which can also effectively improve the activity of genes, improve the situation of close relatives to marry and have children, which is why this custom has been maintained for a long time.
But with the entry of the current civilization into the colonizers, the Eskimos' life structure and life patterns have been impacted, many traditional life patterns have been broken, and the situation of wife and hospitality is slowly decreasing, for everyone, this is the evolution of human life, but for the Eskimos, this is the impact on their traditional culture.