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Many netizens ridiculed:
Northerners rely on heating for the winter, and southerners rely on "righteousness" for the winter.
So living in the North Pole at minus 40 degrees, what do they rely on to survive the winter?
It's unbearable just to imagine living in an area of minus 40 degrees, let alone actually living in the past, and feeling that you are at risk of freezing to death at any time when you go out.
If you go to live in the North Pole by yourself, you must want to wear all the clothes you can wear on your body, and at any time and no one will want to take off a piece of clothing from yourself, and you will also cover all the quilts that can be covered when you go to bed at night.
But it is unbelievable that the Inuit, who live in the Arctic all year round, sleep naked at night and in a snow room.
I have to say, they are real cows, but then again, are they really used to living in Xi so they are not afraid of the cold at all?
The reason why the Inuit live in the Arctic
Deep in the Arctic, there is a mysterious tribe that calls itself the Inuit, which means "human".
The Inuit are also known as Eskimos, but if you call them that to their face, it's no surprise that you're sure to get a big roll of the eye.
Because the title comes from their enemies, it is extremely insulting to call them so, and it is the language of the Argonqin tribe of India, which means "people who eat raw meat", a slang term for the Inuit.
The Inuit are mainly found in Siberia in the Arctic, Greenland to Alaska and beyond, so many people will think that they are all native white.
But no, although they live in the Arctic region, most of them are yellow.
A lot of people wonder why they went to live in the extremely cold Arctic, and why did the Indians give them that name? It goes back a long, long time.
About 8,000 years ago, because the climate in the area where they lived was getting colder, they wanted to move to a warmer place because they felt unbearable cold.
Instead, they chose to move to the heart of the Americas, unaware that the place they ended up moving to was much colder than where they had previously lived.
Arriving in the Siberian wilderness, some of the Inuit stopped, while the other accidentally broke into Alaska, where the Indians lived.
Under the pursuit and persecution of the Indians, the Inuit had no choice but to continue to move north, and finally retreated all the way to the North Pole.
It was winter, and the weather in the Arctic was unbearably cold, and after the Indians chased them all the way to such a cold place, they felt that this was not a place for people to live at all, and guessed that they would definitely freeze to death, so they opened this extremely cold place with confidence.
Little did they know that the Inuit miraculously survived and created their own unique way of life, and their descendants have lived here for thousands of years.
In the course of the war, because of the Inuit lifestyle and food culture, the Indians believed that they were still living in the era of Rumao and drinking blood, which was quite backward and unworthy of being called human, so the Inuit hated such a title very much.
So how did they live in this extremely cold place, and how did they eat, drink, and live in a cold place?
lifestyle
In such a cold place, everyone must be curious about how the Inuit lived.
Today, they have been living here for thousands of years and have long formed their unique way of living.
Before the arrival of the coldest cold snap in the Arctic, the Inuit migrate, and during the migration, they are particularly united, huddle together to keep warm, and give all the food to the chief, who will distribute it uniformly.
Otherwise, all that awaits them is freezing or starvation.
So where do they migrate? In fact, as early as summer, the Inuit have already chosen a place for their winter residence, which is a place where polar bears often hang out.
This is because the polar bears usually choose a place that is leeward, relatively warm, and has plenty of food.
When they arrived, they would use local materials to build their houses with snow and ice.
However, there are requirements for the ice and snow used to build the house, and it is not a matter of finding some snow at random and starting to pile it up, which is also very particular.
The snow needs to be blown away by the wind and then re-piled up, so that the snow is denser than Jiao, and the Xiaoice crystals between the snow are very dense, so it is no longer easy to be blown away by the wind.
The appearance of the igloo is somewhat similar to that of a yurt, the largest can be built seven or eight meters, and the smallest is only two or three meters, just enough for people to live in, and several people can work together to build it in one day.
Building a house also requires the whole clan to unite and cooperate with each other to build it.
Because the days in the Arctic are very short, let alone how low the temperature is, it is difficult to survive the biting night if it has not been built at night, and it is possible to be attacked by polar bears at any time.
Before building a snow room, a large pit about one or two meters high is dug in the ground and the snow near the pit is built.
After cutting the snow into snow bricks according to a certain size, piling them up into a round arched house, filling the gaps with loose snow, spraying them with water, and immediately freezing them, there will be no gaps.
The bed is also made of snow, and the bed is first covered with twigs, and then the animal fur is spread on top so that it is not particularly cold to sleep on.
Many people are curious, can living in an igloo not be cold?
In fact, it is not as cold as we imagined, you know, if it is not windy on a snowy day, it is not so cold, so in the snow room, it is not so cold if you are not blown by the biting cold wind.
And the cold and warm are relative, because the temperature in the Arctic is below zero all year round, or even dozens of degrees below zero, and the temperature in the house is relatively sealed, and a bunch of people live, can transfer a little heat, so it is not too cold.
And they also make a fire in the igloo to keep warm, and the temperature in the room can reach above zero.
This makes people wonder again, isn't there a worry about the house melting when you start a fire in the igloo?
In fact, lighting a fire in the igloo will not cause the igloo to melt and collapse, and what you may not expect is that it will also make the igloo more tightly sealed.
This is because the thermal conductivity of snow is relatively poor, and even if there is a fire burning in the house, and the temperature outside is dozens of degrees below zero, it cannot withstand it to freeze again.
In addition, the snow melts only partially due to the burning of the fire, and if it freezes again, it will make the snow more solid.
However, the SnowRoom can only be used for a certain period of time, and if you burn it for a long time, it will slowly melt some of it, and the insulation effect will deteriorate, so it needs to be rebuilt.
When they sleep, they will take off their clothes and sleep naked, and it is absolutely commendable to be able to take off their clothes on such a cold day.
However, they did not sleep naked on the snow bed, but after taking off their clothes, they got into special sleeping bags sewn from sealskins, snow fox skins and other animal skins, which can be said to be resounding for warmth.
Sleeping naked in it is much warmer than sleeping in clothes, and when they sleep, they like to be close to each other, which will be warmer.
There are animal fur sleeping bags and clothes, and I'm sure everyone has already guessed what their diet is.
That's right, their daily food is hunting and fishing, and they like to eat raw, partly because they find that they live longer on raw meat, and this is actually because raw meat contains a lot of vitamins, and they don't have fruit to supplement them.
Part of the reason is that fire is precious, and it is particularly wasteful to use fire to cook meat, which is also an adaptation to the living environment.
The last reason is that they have a traditional belief that cooking meat is spoiling the food.
One of their favorite foods is not an exaggeration to describe it as "dark cuisine".
The puffins are pickled in the belly, sealed with needles and threads, and then stoned to ferment until the flesh and bones of the puffins are completely decomposed.
They make the best use of the prey they catch, the meat is eaten, the fur is used to keep the cold out, the fat is used as fuel, and some bones, such as reindeer, are polished and used for hunting.
One side of the water and soil supports the other side of the people, and the unique living environment has created their unique way of life.
With the development of the times, the Inuit built igloos are now a classic visit.
Would you like to visit and live in the igloo and experience their lives?
References:
[1] Official account Xinhuanet: "What do people living in the Arctic Circle eat?"
[2] Official account: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Isn't it cold for Inuit people to live in an igloo?"
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