As one of the most economically backward countries in the world, Yemen is a fairly impoverished region of the Arab states with a written history of more than three thousand years. For many, ancient Yemen is a mysterious country. Today, Xiaobian has collected and sorted out the strange people and wonders about Yemen, and I hope you can like it.
A witch wearing a 50 cm tall straw hat
Women in Yemen who are masked and wrapped in black robes are more mysterious, dressed like witches in fairy tales, so some people call them Yemeni "witches". In Hadramao, located in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, the head-to-to-toe "witch" attracts the attention of tourists from all over the world. Black robes envelop their entire bodies, revealing only their eyes, and wearing a straw hat up to 50 centimeters high is also one of their symbols.
When Yemeni women leave home, except for their eyes, hands and feet, they cannot be exposed, and they must be covered with black veils, black scarves (some women also use flower scarves), and black robes. When some women go out, they will wrap themselves in three pieces of black veil, one to cover the head, face and neck, one to cover the upper body, and one to cover the lower body. Because many Muslim countries believe that women are men's personal belongings, most Yemeni women must be wrapped in robes and black veils when they go out, and cannot be seen by men in the streets.
A tree of dragon's blood that bleeds
Yemen, Socotra Island, located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aden, is perhaps the most bizarre place in the world. A third of the plants here can only be seen here, and the weirdest is the dragon's blood tree, which looks like a big spinach and the resin is dark red, like red blood.
Dragon's Blood Tree is a lily family of plants, there are more than 150 species in the world, and there are 5 species in the tropical rainforests of southern China. Its growth is very slow, it takes hundreds of years to grow into a tree, and it only blooms once in a hundred years, so it is very precious and rare.
When a dragon's blood tree is injured, it will flow out - a blood-colored liquid. This liquid is a resin, dark red, is - a kind of precious Chinese medicine,
The dragon's blood tree is native to the Canary Islands in western Africa, and according to local legend, the blood-colored liquid that flows from the dragon's blood tree is dragon's blood, because the dragon's blood is born when the dragon fights the elephant. This is where the name Dragon's Blood Tree comes from.
The Dragon's Blood Tree is a tree belonging to the family Lily. Although it is not very tall, about 10 meters, the trunk is unusually thick, often reaching about 1 meter. Its long, white banded blades, sharp at the apex, like a sharp sword, were densely layered upside down at the top of the branches.
Generally speaking, monocotyledonous plants cannot continue to grow thicker after they have grown to a certain extent. Although the dragon's blood tree belongs to the monocotyledonous plant, the parenchymal cells in its stem can constantly divide, making the stem thicker and lignified year by year, forming a tree. The dragon's blood tree is native to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. There are 150 species in the world and only 5 in China, growing in Yunnan, Hainan Island, Taiwan and other places. The Dragon's Blood Tree is also a long-lived tree, the longest of which can reach more than 8,000 years old.
Little stones flowed from the little girl's eyes
Saadiya Saleh, a 12-year-old Yemeni girl, looks no different from the average girl, but when she is sad, it is not tears that flow from her eyes, but small stones! A small box of stones flowed out in a few hours. Doctors couldn't find out what exactly she was suffering from. The "Tears of Stone" girl caused panic among the villagers, fearing that Saleh was possessed by the devil or that she had some strange epidemic that would infect others.