Chapter 457: Visiting the Primitive Tribe
Before coming here, Liu Chengnan and the program team had used all the resources available to find security to ensure the safety of all of them here. But the environment here is so chaotic that the security companies would rather take on the commission from the Middle East, where terrorist groups are rampant.
No matter how chaotic the country is, at least the country still has armed forces, and if it really encounters an extreme situation, it can still find a way to find reinforcements.
However, the situation here is special, there are many armed organizations in the country, and the relationship between the various organizations is complicated, and if they encounter any danger, they can only rely entirely on themselves to solve it, and if they can't solve it, they have no choice but to wait for death.
Although he knew that it was very dangerous here, Liu Chengnan and the program team still came under pressure.
They have reported to the embassy in advance, and if necessary, they can request help from the embassy, but the embassy also has to make a request to the people in power in the country, and the armed forces at the national level will provide help.
As mentioned earlier, those in power in this country have limited power. If the program team is really targeted by an armed group, the people in power in the country will definitely not dare to do it easily. Because if they only take action against other armed groups, they will be violating the peace treaty, and will once again complicate the domestic situation that has been stabilized with great difficulty, and even drag the ordinary people of the entire country into an endless abyss.
Unexpectedly, Liu Chengnan improvised and decisively took out a large amount of money to convert a group of pro-Chinese robbers into their bodyguards.
Regardless of the size of the gang of robbers, as long as they keep a low profile, they should be able to ensure their personal safety here.
That night, Liu Chengnan asked Kasei to be an interpreter and invited the gang of robbers to drink a drink, bringing the other party closer together.
The little leader of the other party patted his chest and promised that he would definitely ensure the safety of everyone in the program team.
Liu Chengnan continued to show his arrogance, saying that when this trip was over, he would definitely prepare a big gift for the other party before leaving.
Liu Jingxin and his brothers watched silently from the side, completely unable to interject, but their hearts were already much more steady.
Liu Jingxin is sincerely glad that he was able to join "Looking for the Horizon" and be able to strengthen a character like Liu Chengnan. If he comes out by himself, when he encounters a similar situation, it is estimated that his eyes will be blackened, and he doesn't know what to do at all, so he can only listen to what the tour guide says, and in the end he may be sold and help the other party count the money.
After a night of silence, starting the next day, the African primitive tribe tour of this season's "Looking for the Horizon" officially started!
According to the plan, they went to visit a very famous primitive tribe first.
At a very young age, the women of this tribe cut the place where the lower lip joins the gums and separate it with an object to prevent it from recovering on its own. After the wound has healed, they will first tuck the smallest lip disc in, stretch the lower lip open, and wait until they are used to it before switching to a larger lip disc. As this goes on, their lower lip gets bigger and bigger, and the size of the lip disc that can be stuffed into it is also getting bigger and bigger, and the largest disc is even more than 20 centimeters, which is really breathtaking.
Through an interview with an elder in the tribe, Liu Jingxin learned that no one remembers exactly when this custom began, and even why it was done, there are many theories.
Some say that the women's lip palette is in line with the aesthetics of the men of their tribe, some say that they do it so that when they are attacked by other tribes, women can protect themselves to a certain extent by showing such an alternative appearance, and still others say that it is because of some kind of tribal taboo that cannot be passed on to outsiders......
Anyway, this custom has been seriously declining and even extinct until now.
Under the impact of foreign culture, the aesthetics of the tribe are also changing, and some people have even proposed to abolish this bad habit of serious persecution of women.
But in general, at least for now, there is very little opposition, and the people here still maintain this custom.
The larger the lip plate, the higher the dowry and the higher the status in the family.
Although the men of the same tribe did not have the custom of hanging lip plates, they did have a custom that sounded bloody.
The status of men depends on the number of knife marks on their arms and chest. The number of knife marks is only related to the number of killings.
Kill a person, a scar.
It sounds like this tribe should be very cruel to foreigners, but on the contrary, they are very friendly and welcoming. Younger clan males have fewer and fewer scars on their bodies, replaced by decorative tattoos.
The reason for this may be that the gradual demise of primitive tribes has led to fewer and fewer inter-tribal fights, and at the same time, there are many foreign film crews who come here to accumulate material, bring different cultures, and greetings from all over the world, making their personalities more and more docile, right?
The "Looking for the Horizon" program team stayed in this tribe for a day, Liu Jingxin wrote a new song with his own feelings, and taught the people of this tribe, and finally everyone beat the tambourine around the bonfire after dark, singing and dancing together, the atmosphere was warm and beautiful.
After leaving in the dark, the group rushed to the nearest city to rest for the night, and then went to visit a more distinctive tribe.
People of this tribe have tattoos all over their bodies, even on their faces.
They keep the most primitive way of tattooing, cutting the pattern they want directly on the body with a blade or thorn strips.
Liu Jingxin and they were fortunate to see a young woman's tattoo scene, and when they saw the woman's whole body like a blister, and the blood on the new tattoo, Bao Yi almost vomited on the spot because he couldn't stand such a violent visual impact, and he was stunned for a long, long time outside before he recovered, but after coming back, the whole person wilted, and secretly swore to Liu Jingxin that he would never get a tattoo in this life, and he would not let his family get a tattoo, he already had a shadow.
In addition to lip plates and tattoos, the program team subsequently visited several very distinctive tribes, including the tribe that Liu Chengnan once mentioned that everyone did not wear clothes and pants.
As a sign of respect for the tribal customs, all those involved also entered the tribe naked.
At first, Zhang Xun and the others were worried that they would have an embarrassing reaction when they hadn't seen the "world", but after they really went, they really didn't have any evil thoughts, and they cooperated with the program team to successfully complete the recording of this episode of the program.
Of course, this episode of the show is special, and it will inevitably take a lot of effort in post-editing, and it is difficult to say whether it can pass the review.
But the people are already here, so I can't care so much, let's finish recording first.
One tribe after another, time passed day by day, and the program team spent more than a month to complete the recording of this part of the content.
Next, they will leave Central Africa for a while, and rush to Somalia, where the smell of death is said to be very strong.
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