Chapter 1122 - The Daily Life of the Aborigines

Yang Meng was stunned: "What does this mean? Why can't you answer me? Who is her husband, she doesn't know herself?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Of course she knows who her husband is, just now we saved three people in 'Chakara', including her two husbands." ”

"Poof!" Yang Meng was drinking, and when he heard Xiao Peng's words, he sprayed directly.

"Here, the relationship between men and women is very free, and you will not find a man or woman in the whole tribe who has been married only once, and as long as the man and woman spend one night together, the marriage relationship between the man and the woman is established. If you feel that you are no longer in love, then you can part ways and find a new love. Xiao Peng said lightly: "So you just asked who is the father of Haqqani's child, and the head of Poka doesn't know, there are six or seven possibilities." ”

Yang Meng was dumbfounded: "Then who is this kid?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Whoever marries Haqqani in the end will be considered who's." Or simply say it's a tribal child. ”

"This Nima can also be 。。。。。。。 Yang Meng was dumbfounded.

Xiao Peng continued: "There is also a strange rule here, that is, if a girl has a menarche house, she must go to the 'menarche hut' specially prepared for them, and live alone in it for half a month, during which she cannot talk to people or contact people. Only eat what is prescribed. This is their coming-of-age ceremony, and after this half a month, they can get married even if they are women. ”

Yang Meng was completely speechless, of course, this can't be said that people are wrong, people have been here for thousands of years. If they think it's good, that's good!

After participating in this grand celebration, Xiao Peng and the others stayed in this tribe directly.

In the next few days, Xiao Peng was also able to get close to the life of this indigenous Indian.

In fact, the customs of each tribe are different, take the Suluwaha tribe as an example, this tribe treats marriage quite strangely.

When every teenager grows up to the age of 10 to 12, his parents will choose a fiancΓ©e who is only two or three years old, which can be regarded as a childhood sweetheart, and when the girl grows to the age of thirteen or fourteen, the two can become husband and wife.

The tribe practiced polygamy, where a man could marry up to eight wives, and it was an important way of life for them. Men always used marriage to strengthen the position and prestige of the 'head of the house'. The lack of one more wife here means that the family has one more 'union' and one more laborer. A man can marry two sisters from a family. It is also possible to marry women from other tribes, and wives in polygamous families also strive to expand their husband's authority and status, such as helping him find a new wife. And I will be sincerely proud and proud of my husband's wife。。。。。。。

There are also many strange habits of this tribe that are unreasonable. Some of the habits even have similarities with African tribes.

For example, in their minds, newborns with any form of physical defect are considered to have no soul and should be killed like animals, while twins and triplets are 'cursed' and cannot exist, which is very similar to some tribes in Africa.

The same is true for many tribes in Africa, where having twins or something like that is considered 'unclean' and needs to be killed. Now that society is progressing, some tribes no longer kill twins, but there are still tribes that resolutely implement the ancestral teachings, and when they encounter twins, they are killed ------ one word.

And even if some tribes no longer kill twins, twins are still 'cursed'.

The simplest example is the Bansa King of Ghana, who not only rules over the traditional areas inhabited by the Hohoe people in Ghana, with more than 200,000 subjects, but also has dominion over 2 million people in Togo as the spiritual and practical leader of the Ewe.

And he has another layer of identity besides being a king, that is, an ordinary Germanic mechanic.

It stands to reason that the throne will not be his turn, and as a result, his father is left-handed, and his brother is twins. This was a sign of uncleanliness and dishonesty in their traditions, so they had to take Banza, who had worked as a mechanic in Germania, back to be king.

In this tribe, the twins are even more brutal, either buried alive, suffocated with leaves, poisoned, or abandoned in the jungle.

The Poka leader was still very proud of this matter: "Our tribe is a tribe of the gods, last year we only had two cursed children, and in the south there is a tribe of Yanomami, and they had ninety-eight children killed by their mother last year!

Xiao Peng has heard of this, and in Brazil there is currently a debate on a draft bill to ban infanticide, which is called the 'Muwaqui' law, but there are big problems with implementation. Because many people believe that this is the way of life of indigenous people, they cannot be judged by other people's values, and the cultural differences of the tribe should be respected.

Now the development of the Amazon is inevitable, and how to develop the Amazon and how to protect these indigenous tribes has become a very serious problem. Is it to engage with these tribes to shelter and protect them, or is it best to have a so-called 'no-contact policy' to protect their reservations but not contact them?

After all, any contact, no matter how good or great the intention, can have unintended consequences, such as the introduction of a disease or cultural contaminant.

To give a simple example, the adult weapons of the Suluwaha tribe are still stone knives, carpenters, wooden spears, iron tools are extremely rare items for them, but now they have a stainless steel rice bowl. Does this have no impact on their lives?

National Geographic sponsored a project that is still running today called the Isolated Tribes Project, a group of so-called 'applied anthropologists' (none of whom know how) to track and measure the size and health of indigenous peoples in some of the most remote forested areas of the Amazon using precise technology. Satellite imagery is used to identify and measure the relative health status of indigenous groups.

They judged the size of the tribe based on the size of the 'chakra' cultivated by the aborigines and the open space created to build their dwellings, and then judged whether the tribe was too small to 'grow and grow' or healthy enough to take care of itself without the intervention of outsiders.

But the plan was severely resisted by another group called Survivors International. They believe that this 'isolated tribal plan' is to push the isolated tribes into great danger and to serve the interests of the multinational enterprises and agribusiness in Brazil. What these companies want most is to explore and exploit unexplored territories.

It is an indisputable fact that the two sides quarrel every day, and while they are talking, the Amazon rainforest is getting smaller and smaller, and the living space of the indigenous people is becoming more and more difficult.

However, in this Suluwaha tribe, people really don't worry about food and clothing. There's a reason why they chose to start their tribe here------ it's really rich in food.

The favorite food here is a dish called 'maito' made from fish and plantain called 'karachama'. In fact, the 'Karachama' fish has a famous name in China------ scavenger. Almost everyone who has ever raised a tropical fish knows it.

Well, when it comes to the 'scavenger' fish, thanks to those who have released the brains, it is another fish that is flooding southern China. It is a dangerous species that endangers the ecological balance.

This thing is really not a good thing, many people raise a scavenger, saying that it can clean the fish tank, in fact, this is pure nonsense, the scavenger fish has the function of cleaning the garbage at all! As long as there is fish food in the fish tank, it will never eat algae, and even if it eats algae, it will not eat much. Not only does this guy not clean the tank, but he is also very aggressive, and they will attack any fish that swims slower than him, whether it is bigger or smaller than him, especially if the fish is sick. He just goes up and sucks, whether it's any other species or the same kind.

Because of the existence of this fish, the native fish of many rivers in the south have been extinct------- this guy can eat more than 5,000 fish eggs a day. Many rivers in the south are no longer in sight of native fish, which has made this guy a scourge!

The most hateful thing is that the world-famous Chinese foodies do not have many ways to do this fish, because this is an exoskeleton fish, with a hard shell outside, so it tastes very awkward, and you can only watch this fish flood in China.

One is the fishmonger of the year, who brought back from South America the so-called 'high-level pets' such as snapping turtles, Brazilian turtles, scavenger fish, and piranhasis to make huge profits; The 'contributions' made by these people to the destruction of China's ecological balance were shot for half an hour without relieving their hatred.

But in the eyes of the indigenous Amazonians, this fish is really a good thing, a rare delicacy. It is also one of their most important sources of protein.

In addition, compared to other fish, this fish swims slowly and is the easiest fish to catch. The children of Suluwaha spend almost every day by the river, catching the fish and eating it home, in addition to playing in the water.

But then again, the Suluwakha didn't use any kind of nets to catch fish, and their tools were still limited to the Stone Age。。。。。。

They fish on 。。。。。。 A bunch of grassroots.