The story of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", everyone should have heard it when they were young, the seven dwarfs in it are all powerful and especially good for Snow White, but this is in a fairy tale, is there really a dwarf in real life? Don't say that there is really a tribe in Africa, the people of this tribe are less than one meter and five, and they have matured at the age of 8 and stopped growing, but the coming-of-age ceremony is very special, what kind of tribe is this? What is the reason why the locals are short? Let's take a look!
In the tropical forests of central Africa, there is a special group of men with an average height of less than five feet, called pygmies. Local men are responsible for going out hunting, and women are responsible for collecting things and living a closed life. Although this is a primitive tribe, unlike other tribes, it is strictly monogamous and requires more children, because in their impression, people are more powerful, can work more, and life will be better and better.
Pygmies have large heads, but short legs and large stomachs, coupled with brown skin, which makes them even stranger, and they don't fit in with cute feelings. They don't have their own words, they don't have a private concept, everything is everyone's, and they don't know the numbers and the time.
But in this group of people, there will be some patterns on the faces, like wild people, the clothes are usually leaves, but also some animal shells will be used as bracelets and so on. But later, when the place is discovered by tourists, this group of people will wear the clothes brought by tourists, and they will be happy to wear clothes.
However, at the age of eight, the group will be mature enough to marry and have children, and at that time, the food will be given to the elders of the tribe and then distributed uniformly. Because their life expectancy is only about 35 years old, they will cherish their lives very much.
At the age of 10, this group of people will leave their parents to live alone, and before leaving, their parents will hold a coming-of-age ceremony for them, girls, generally learn the skills of their mothers, after learning to leave home, boys will be much stricter, to learn the father's hunting techniques, such as weaving nets, will use some plant sap and so on.
After learning, there will be an ultimate test, that is, the boy uses the skills he has learned to hunt an elephant alone, so that the parents can rest assured that you can leave, but now that the number of elephants is getting smaller and smaller, it has become a protected animal, and this group of people has shifted the target to some small animals. The purpose of this is mainly to consider the child's boldness, carefulness and other aspects, after all, in the future, they will have to be their own.
So why don't they grow taller?
Some people say that it may be related to the local environment and diet, because living in a place all year round, there may be some bad substances in the air or nearby, hindering the growth of their bodies, or it may be because of the food they eat, resulting in this group of people not growing up and so on.
But studies have shown that there are some genetic mutations in the bodies of this group of people, and the reason for the mutation is because of the environment, and then the Pygmies do not grow and are so precocious!
However, there are fewer and fewer pygmies now, and they don't want to come into contact with the outside world!
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