Who are the loneliest and lonely people in the world? Presumably, many friends will say that they are Eskimos (Inuit) because they love to die and be lonely.
Although this is a paragraph, but from the geographical point of view. They live in the deserted Arctic, and they are indeed lonely enough.
Not only that, the harsh natural environment of the Arctic is not suitable for human survival, so how did the Eskimos survive here from generation to generation?
Today I will tell you their story.
The ships were frozen
Let's see what they look like.
A photo of a family of three
Have you noticed that they don't look very similar to us Asians?
According to the scientists' survey, the two main groups of Eskimos, the Yupics and the Eskimos of North America, have 43% OF their DNA genes, similar to the ancestors of Asians.
Moreover, through the study of their myths and legends and cultural relics, scientists have found that they have a high similarity with Chinese culture. So some people say that they are descendants of Chinese, but this view has not yet been confirmed.
The Eskimos do look a lot like the Asians
The Eskimos lived in the deserted Arctic, where supplies were scarce and unusually cold, so the Eskimos could hardly eat vegetables and fruits, they mainly ate meat.
The name Eskimo originally meant "the one who eats raw meat." After thousands of years, due to the local climate and geographical environment, their way of life has not changed much.
Eskimo hunters are hunting
As we all know, as an omnivorous animal, people only eat meat and do not eat vegetables and fruits, and people will get scurvy. This disease is very terrible in the ocean, and it is also known as the "god of the sea". The cause of scurvy is the lack of vitamin C in the human body.
According to common sense, the Eskimos' way of eating should have disappeared in the Arctic long ago, but why did they reproduce from generation to generation?
Crews at sea in the Middle Ages treated scurvy with lemons
To understand this problem, we must first understand their recipes.
The meat they eat consists mainly of whales, seals, reindeer and seabirds. You may look at it all meat. But in fact, reindeer livers, seal brains and whale skins all contain a lot of vitamin C.
But vitamin C, as a trace element, its structure is very unstable, if the temperature exceeds 80 degrees Celsius, it will be destroyed and decomposed. If normal people eat like this, they definitely can't do it.
But you know, the Eskimos went to the North Pole in the Neolithic period, and at that time people drank blood, and this ancient eating habit was preserved. And it became the secret that they could survive in the Arctic.
The Arctic is their natural refrigerator
Because raw animals eat the vitamin C-rich parts, the vitamin C is not destroyed. Moreover, the Arctic is cold and frozen, and it is impossible to destroy the structure of vitamin C in the natural environment.
In addition to eating raw meat, the Eskimos also have a unique trick, that is, to process and ferment meat products. And the secret to their scurvy is their world-renowned "dark cuisine."
Presumably, everyone has brushed the world's most famous dark cuisine on the short video platform, and the food of the Eskimos is at the top of the dark cuisine!
Famous canned herring
Let's take a look at their dark cuisine.
The first "delicacy" is called muktuk.
This food is made by cutting the whale meat into pieces with the skin and storing it for fermentation. So the taste will come up at once.
The most common way to eat Marktak is to sprinkle salt raw (make up for it yourself), sometimes wrapped in breadcrumbs and fried, and then eaten with soy sauce.
But those who have eaten it describe it as having a strange smell, and it tastes like canned herring. It can be called a heavy taste food.
But MarkTak contains a lot of vitamin C, which is almost equivalent to eating an orange.
The pain masks were all eaten
If the mark tak above is just a heavy taste, then the following one can be called dark cuisine.
The dish is called Kiviak, AKA "fermented seals," and the name is called "pickled puffins," the apex ingredient of what is known in China as dark cuisine.
Since this dish is cumbersome to make, it also takes a long time. So only the hard dishes that are taken out when the VIPs come.
Seal shell of pickled puffin dish
The way this "delicacy" is made can be said to be wild:
Hundreds of seabirds are put into the body of the caught seal with a belt of fur, then greased on the seal, and then waited for the seabird to decay and ferment, which takes 1 to 3 years. It can then be smeared on pieces of meat or eaten raw.
Although this dish looks very primitive, it does contain plenty of vitamins.
This is the puffin that has been fermenting for several years
What we have to admire is that the Eskimos were able to survive in such a harsh environment, making us realize that human potential is unlimited. It is believed that in the near future, human beings will be more adapted to the environment and coexist in harmony with nature.
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