I don't know if you have ever observed your little toenails, but some people will be surprised to find that their little toenails are actually divided into two petals.
But it's not separated from the middle, but one big and one small, and the outer one is more like a bonus, which is very small, but it sometimes does things, and after the nails grow, it will hook the socks, which makes people miserable.
Don't worry, you're not alone, a lot of people have this problem with their toes, and the split of the little toenail into two is often discussed.
Some people say that people with two petals of little toes are of the same clan, and some people say that only pure-blooded Han people will have small toenails with two petals, and some people even directly recognize their relatives, saying that people with two petals of little toenails are the descendants of "Shanxi Hongdong big locust tree people".
For this statement, they also came up with a decent "evidence", which also made the "two-petaled little toe" more and more mysterious.
So, is it really a criterion for judging the bloodline that the little toe is divided into two halves, and is it true that only purebred Han Chinese have two petals for the little toe?
It's not just Han Chinese who have two little toes
The so-called pure Han people refer to the Han people who lived in the Central Plains before the great ethnic integration took place in ancient China.
The saying that "purebred Han people have two-petaled little toes" is because after big data verification, the number of two-petaled little toes in the central provinces of the mainland is relatively large.
Among the research populations in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, 80% of the people have two little toes, and the rest of the provinces such as Henan, Hebei, Hubei, and Shandong also have a large number of people.
Based on the results of this study, the researchers came to the conclusion that people with two small toes showed a gradual decreasing trend of "more in the middle and less in the periphery".
However, this is not enough to prove that only Han Chinese have two little toes, and although the subjects of the study are all Han Chinese populations, these Han people do not live in closed areas, and they have exchanges and integration with other regions and ethnic populations.
And throughout the history of China, there are three great ethnic integrations that are more convincing, the first is that Qin Shi Huang swept the Liuhe to unify the world.
The second time was during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, when Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian unified the north and south, and the third time was the Yuan Dynasty Kublai Khan collected Liao and destroyed Jin to unify the north and south.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to find pure Han Chinese, which shows that the argument that only pure Han Chinese have two small toes is simply untenable.
In addition, some Han people have only one little toe, on the contrary, some are not Han people, and there are also cases where there are two little toes.
And what completely broke the saying that "only purebred Han people have two little toes" is a survey abroad, in 14 countries such as Norway, Switzerland, Germany, etc., there are not a few people with two little toes, could it be that they are also Han Chinese?
Therefore, there is no scientific basis for using two little toes to determine whether they are Han Chinese.
"Shanxi Hongdong Big Locust Tree Man" with two little toes
There is also a saying that comes from an interesting folk story, which believes that the people with two petals of the little toe are the descendants of the "Shanxi Hongdong Da Locust Tree People".
Legend has it that during the Ming Dynasty, there was a natural disaster in Shandong, and the people had no land to plant, no water to eat, and many people fled to the famine, resulting in a sharp decline in Shandong's population.
Seeing this, the imperial court hurriedly looked for a remedy, if everyone ran out, and the barren fields were left uncultivated, the vicious circle continued that the area was only deserted.
So the ruler ordered immigrants from Shanxi to replenish the population, and the specific immigration area was selected in Jia Village, Hongdong County, Shanxi.
The population here is dense, the economy is developed, and the people are very hardworking, but after the order was issued, many villagers were reluctant to move out, except for their homeland, no one wanted to go to a poor place to suffer.
The imperial court has been conscripted under the big locust tree for several days, but few people are willing to move out, so in desperation, they can only think of a way.
They put up notices, indicating that they were not willing to force the people to relocate, but the emperor's order was difficult to disobey, so they could only pretend, if the people were really unwilling to move, then gather under the big locust tree, sign and don't have to leave.
In addition, those who relocated in a unified manner stayed at home and did not come out, waiting for the follow-up arrangements, and as soon as the notice came out, many people came to gather under the big locust tree.
But just as they were waiting to sign, the officers and soldiers directly surrounded them, saying that all the people under the big locust tree were those who agreed to move out.
Without waiting for the people to react, the officers and soldiers registered them, and one of them issued them a voucher and told them to go home and prepare for the relocation.
In order to prevent the misidentification of the wrong person, these officers and soldiers had to cut a knife on the thumb of the common people every time they issued a certificate, which was counted as a mark.
Therefore, later generations believe that as long as the little toe is two-petaled, they are all descendants of the immigrants of the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi.
In the process of migration, a word was also produced, which has been passed down to this day, and that is to untie hands.
Since most of the immigrants were forced to relocate, many people thought about escaping, and the officers and soldiers could not do anything to them, after all, they still had to rely on these people to replenish the population.
The number of runs was so great that the officers and soldiers could only tie everyone's hands behind their backs and pull them with ropes, and on the way, some people wanted to go to the toilet, so they asked the officers and soldiers to untie the ropes.
This is the origin of "untie your hands", and untie the rope is to go to the toilet, and over time untie your hands on behalf of going to the toilet, some people think that as long as you are used to going to the toilet called unties, it is basically sure to be the immigrants of Shanxi big locust trees.
But this is a legend after all, it is nonsense to cut off the toes and pass it on to future generations, according to genetics, the traumatic injuries caused by the acquired will not be inherited at all, otherwise the generals who often fought in ancient times, their descendants will not be full of scars.
Why do you have two little toes?
In fact, there is a scientific explanation for the fact that the little toe is divided into two lobes.
The little finger is divided into two lobes, which is technically called a flap nail, also known as a "pián toe" or "compound nail".
According to the research, valvular nails are related to chromosomes in the human body and belong to the autosomal single-gene dominant trait.
The study of valvular nails has never stopped, and an article published in the Journal of Genetics and Genomics has explained a series of characteristics of valvular nails in more depth.
The subjects of the study included Han Chinese and Uyghurs, and the results showed that the probability of the occurrence of the flap nail had nothing to do with the Han people, nor did it have anything to do with gender.
Instead, researchers found that the valvular nail behaved differently in a person, some people had valvular nails on both feet, some people had only one foot, but the probability of the right foot appearing was higher, and some people had three petals.
This proves that the valvular nail is not controlled by one gene, but may be affected by a combination of multiple genes.
epilogue
There are many mysteries in the human body, and after thousands of years of development, they are still not fully explored, and the petal nail is just one of the interesting phenomena, and it has nothing to do with the human race.
So, are you Han Chinese or someone of another ethnic group, and is the little thumb an interesting flap nail?
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