The Red Clay people are among the many primitive tribes, the most popular and the most distinctive tribe, the Red Clay people live in the depths of northern Namibia, Africa. In their traditional culture, women are "naked" with their upper body beautiful, so the women's clothing in the tribe is basically a style that shows the upper body. One of the most characteristic is the "reddish-brown skin" of the tribesmen. [I don't look at it]
It is said that the people of the Hongni tribe do not bathe in their lives, and the life expectancy of men is shorter than that of women.
In our mind, Africa is dangerous and mysterious, and there are all kinds of ferocious second-generation wild animals living in the vast African savannah, as well as many primitive people. They are completely separated from modern society, and they still maintain their traditional culture and living habits from ancient times to the present.
In Africa's primitive tribes, they were unable to divert water from the same channels as modern people, or to extract groundwater for a steady stream of water, let alone to recycle it. They cherish the use of water, and basically only use it to make ends meet, let alone use it for bathing.
So in order to protect against the strong sunlight and mosquito bites in Africa. Their ancestors discovered that a clay made of grinding a local stone into powder and milk or butter not only served as a symbol of the tribe, but also protected against mosquito bites and protected the skin from certain ultraviolet rays.
Over the generations, red clay has evolved into a traditional tribal practice, not only as a tool to protect against sunlight and mosquitoes. In the Red Clay Clan, not only the body needs to be covered with red mud, but even the face and hair are also covered with red mud.
In addition, because the women of the Hongni tribe did not have the habit of wearing shoes because they did not need to hunt, even if they entered the cities of Namibia, they still retained the habit of bare their upper bodies and not wearing shoes.
The original name of the Red Clay Tribes was "Simba", but after the Himba people began to accept foreign tourists, people began to call the Himba people because of their reddish-brown skin, which is a characteristic feature, and it has been widely spread.
Many tourists who have traveled to the Red Clay tribe have found that there is a large gap between the male and female ratios of the Red Ni tribe, and the ratio of men to women is about 1:11 by Namibians.
Due to a special genetic disease in their own genes, a large part of the men of the Hongni tribe died of illness when they grew up to the age of 15, and due to the lack of medical technology, the boys did not live to be 15 years old from generation to generation, which naturally caused a serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women.
In addition, the Hongni people have always maintained polygamy, and at the same time, the control of the relationship between men and women is also very arbitrary, so in the Hongni people, the family system is the only social system guarantee.
For example, a woman in the Red Ni tribe can have a lover or have a child before marriage, and a woman can not exercise the obligation to support the child after marriage, and the child is exercised by her parents' family.
Although the relationship between men and women is very casual, marriage is a top priority for the Hongni people. In the tribe, a man who falls in love with a woman and wants to marry her also needs a dowry.
And it is also very strict, the dowry must be a bull and two cows, and the size of the cow also needs to be judged by the mother's family, if the cow is not strong enough or the appearance can not meet the needs of the mother's family, then the family business can be declared completely "yellow".
Due to the problem of the premature death of the tribal men, the tribe vigorously advocates fertility, even if the married woman can give birth to children with other men, under the goal of maintaining the continuation of the tribe, the men of the red mud tribe will not stop it, under the goal of the continuation of the red mud tribe, almost every man has more than one "green hat" on his head.
As the most affluent nomadic people in Africa, they are now facing the big problem of "disappearing", which has to start from the 19th century, when Africa was not slowly catching up with the pace of society as it is now, when most of the primitive areas of Africa were living in tribal units.
At that time, the Hongni tribe was plundered by the southern tribes, and although it was greatly impacted, many people still survived. Most of these survivors went into exile in Angola and joined the Portuguese army. He also learned a series of combat techniques, and then formed his own raiding team and began to return to his hometown.
Due to excessive plunder, the newly formed raiding team of the Red Clay tribe seriously affected the safety of people's lives and property, and aroused the dissatisfaction of Namibian national leaders. Eventually, the Red Clay people were confined to an area called "Home" and everything they had, causing the Red Clay Clan, who were already weak in self-sufficiency, to change their survival strategies and learn to farm and raise livestock.
The main food sources of the Hongni people are basically composed of beef and mutton, but there is also a unique cuisine, which is only available in a specific season, so the women of the Hongni tribe will pick it to make a delicacy in the season when this ingredient appears, and it is used to treat their husbands who go out hunting.
This ingredient is a kind of local unique big soft worm looks very similar to the big green worm of the barbecue, the production method is directly into the oil pan, fried to golden brown and then fished out, the tribesmen are very fond of fried big green worms.
In the 1990s, the Hongni tribe was also freed from the "captivity", but this "captivity" caused the Hongni tribe to reduce its population a lot due to food problems. However, hereditary diseases and inbreeding due to the sharp decline of the population have made the Hongni tribe, who have made great efforts in the continuation of the ethnic group, still unable to stop the pace of further population decline.
Although the Hongni tribe is about to "disappear", but because some of their tribesmen have an open vision, some of them have begun to integrate with modern times, learn languages and living habits, and slowly integrate into the life of the city, which can be regarded as a "curve to save the country" to ensure the continuation of the ethnic group.
And with the help of the local government and international people, an English school for children has been established, and a committee for tourism of the Hongni tribe has been established. The committee helps to develop the tourism area of the primitive tribe of the Hongni tribe, so that tourists from all over the world who are curious about the primitive tribe come to visit, and they are also full of the same curiosity about the outside world.
They often chat with tourists, asking questions to strengthen the modern society they know nothing about, although many Hongni men from going out to hunt to go out to work, but a large part of the women still stay at home, although they still maintain the former way of life, but compared with the estrangement and severance from the modern society, now in the face of tourists to perform the traditional culture of the life is still more fulfilling and interesting.
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[1] CCTV - April 13, 2013 [[Wild African] Himba