After going through the long river of history and spending a lot of time, Lin Xiao seems to have sat on a time machine in Doraemon to appreciate the historical customs of ancient Egypt

One foot in heaven, one foot in hell.

It's just that before Lin Xiao ran to the sun, the beach, and the bikini, it was a very painful custom at the beginning. Lin Xiao said that there was no pressure to accept it, but shaving and the like were completely intolerable~~

He used a trick to knock a nobleman unconscious, and after taking the sheep to change his face, he quietly walked into the Magellan Wan Chai pier.

Not far from the door, I found a "barber" profession that makes people have a lot of pain and toothache. It's not the barber Todd, nor is it the one-stop industry of washing, cutting and blowing that "learns the craft, comes to Beijing, and ranks first in beauty salons", but

In modern society, only men need to buy razors to shave, but in ancient Egypt both men and women needed razors: men shaved their beards and underneath hair at the same time, and women used razors to clean their pussies - note that since teenagers in ancient Egypt were naked, it was no longer a personal privacy to shave pubic hair, but a matter that everyone could see, just like the beard on the face.

Because razors in the Bronze Age were expensive, commoner families often couldn't afford them, so they had to ask a barber for help. Barbers in ancient Egypt had to shave not only their heads, but also their armpit and pubic hair, and the crotches of both men and women - don't mistake him for an evil teacher~~

However, even if you abandon your shame, shaving your body hair was a painful thing to do in ancient Egyptian society – there were no laser hair removal or electric razors, not even sharp steel knives.

For example, at that time, iron tools were still the secret weapons of the Hittites, and they were sold for foreign countries more expensive than the same weight of gold, and no one was willing to use them as razors.

And by the time iron smelting technology spread and the price of steel fell sharply, it was almost time for the ancient Egyptian civilization to die. Even the early Roman legions, the soldiers used bronze daggers, not to mention the ancient Egyptians before that.

Therefore, the tools used by the "hairdresser" that Lin Xiao saw can only be described as primitive, a very blunt bronze razor, (there were no scissors at that time, and the earliest scissors were not invented by Chinese until the Western Han Dynasty), and even this kind of copper razor did not appear until the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, and there were only more tragic flint blades before that...... Since it is really impossible to shave with such a backward knife alone, the "barbers" usually have to prepare a pair of tweezers for direct plucking.

In ancient times, when there were no antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, there were many records in the East and the West about the embarrassing things that caused the skin of the face to be cut because of the inappropriate shave, which led to the infection and suppuration of the wound, and finally died with a whimper. And as we all know, the skin of our lower body is far more delicate than the skin of the face, and at the same time, it is more sensitive, and naturally more susceptible to razor damage - so maybe it is a good thing that the razor of ancient Egypt is not strong?

But no matter how skilled the ancient Egyptian barbers were at shaving, the rudimentary tools were there, and it was impossible to avoid pain.

When looking for someone to shave in ancient Egypt, if you can, you can first apply a little primitive soap to the pubic area - usually a small oil ball mixed with animal fat mixed with plant ash, but the poor still can't afford to use it - if you don't have the condition, just pour some water on it and wash it, and then the barber will hold a knife in one hand and pick up your hair in the other, and slowly "saw" back and forth......

But because the bronze or flint blades are so blunt that you can't shave them even if you die of pain, the barber has to take out a large pair of tweezers (similar to the candy cubes nowadays) and face the sun to help you pull out the remaining hairs one by one......

How painful is this? You can just try to pluck a handful of hair under your crotch, it will definitely make you cry your teeth and mouth hurt. Anyway, the little Egyptian beauty with dark complexion but a healthy glow that Lin Xiao watched was already so pale in pain that she was crying. Of course, only beautiful women will attract Lin Xiao's attention, and opposites attract.

Lin Xiao was quite skeptical that what would happen if this shaving master was a beginner and his skills were not good, or if he happened to be out of shape today. Your lower body will most likely be cut bloodied, as if you have just come out of the castrated eunuch's "clean room" or "silkworm room".

According to historical records, because shaving was so painful before the Iron Age, the Mayans, who were still in the Stone Age, generally put hot towels on their children's faces from an early age, so that they could no longer grow beards. However, this method cannot be used on the reproductive organs, otherwise it is easy to lead to sterilization

When the girl's clothes are thick, we stare at her naked parts, and when the girl is mostly naked, our eyes are all focused on the small part of her that is covered by the clothes. And when the streets are full of naked/body, and more importantly, when it is dark, it is a person who will be aesthetically fatigued, we are not cheap, but we have a good eye.

Lin Xiao was still very "disdainful" of this primitive and barbaric behavior, but he just stopped and watched for a while, and after appreciating the customs between the two, he walked forward along the crowd.

Walking to a lunch food street, Lin Xiao discovered that the ancient Egyptians were also very good at enjoying life - the most common was bread, and it was a high-end dessert bread mixed with butter, honey and spices.

Beer is another staple that can be found everywhere – unlike the modern beer that produces a lot of bubbles, the beer of the ancient Egyptians was thicker, contains many solids, and is high in nutrients, more like modern porridge (with a little honey and sweet wine).

In addition to bread and beer, there are also high-end cakes with dates and honey, and wine served in clay clay pots as a high-end drink. In the food court, the cheapest vegetables should be onions and garlic, which are much cheaper than bread. Meat dishes include freshwater fish caught by fishermen from the Nile, which is an important source of protein. Other types of meat are rarer and rarer.

However, at the lavish banquets of the aristocracy, you can also see roasted whole beef, roast duck, roast goose, roast pigeon, roast pork chops, grilled fish, thick soup, mixed vegetables, raisins, dried dates, fruit platter...... Basically, all kinds of basic dishes of Western food in the future can be found in ancient Egypt.

Unfortunately, these ancient Egyptians only invented dishes, but not cutlery, and the traversers had to eat directly with their fingers, just like modern Indians. By the time the first tableware was brought to the banks of the Nile by the Persians and Greeks, the traditional meaning of ancient Egypt was coming to an end.

What's even more regrettable is that although these meals invented by the ancient Egyptians are very exquisite and nutritious, because the wind and sand in Egypt are too big, some sand will fall into it more or less when cooking, and no matter how you prevent it, you can't get it clean. Let Lin Xiao's appetite be greatly reduced~~

Bread, the staple food of the Egyptians, was a major health hazard because of its rough baking conditions – bread specimens taken from ancient Egyptian tombs show that the bread contained a lot of miscellaneous things, including large amounts of sand, hand-ground fragments used to grind flour, and debris from warehouses......

Although the Egyptians succeeded in turning bread baking into a craft, creating more than 50 different shapes of bread - round, square, twisted, animal-shaped...... But there is no way to clean the sand in the bread.

The hard quartz sand abrasively abrased the enamel layer of the Egyptians' teeth, causing tooth decay and then ulceration of the dental nerve. In the strictest cases, it can even induce sepsis and lead to the death of the patient - the famous Pharaoh Ramses II died of tooth decay.

Not only was the food so unhealthy in the ancient Egyptian world, but it was also problematic with drinking water – as we all know, the Egyptians drank from the Nile. The water of the Nile in Upper Egypt is relatively clear and suitable for drinking. But in the delta of Lower Egypt, especially near the mouth of the sea, the river is full of muddy water because the flow of the river has slowed down considerably. Wealthy people living in the Nile Delta region would pour the muddy water into a pond and settle it slowly, and then use the clean water on it, so that they could barely get by. But the poor could not be so particular, so they could only pinch their noses and drink dirty water, and there was no concept of boiling the water before drinking...... As a result, various gastrointestinal parasitic diseases are rampant all year round.

With the delicate stomach of modern people, I am afraid it will be difficult to adapt to the bad diet of ancient Egypt, so Lin Xiao has Bell's knife in his hand, whether you are poisonous or not, one knife down, the protein is five times that of beef, chicken flavor, crunchy~~