1. The naked daily life of the ancient Egyptians!
But before you can appreciate the flavors of Ancient Egypt, you travelers, you must first learn to throw away your shame!
Well? Weishenme: Do you have to learn to lose your shame?
Because the climate of ancient Egypt was very hot and dry, it could not be frozen, and the textile and dyeing jishu of ancient Egypt was still very primitive and backward, and its output was really a tragedy, which led to the outrageous price of cloth, and the dyed cloth became the patent of the aristocracy.
So, in order to be thrifty, the ancient Egyptians generally wore little or no wear, and never considered nudity a shame - the children of ancient Egypt, both male and female, did not wear clothes when they were young, and ran around the streets with bare butts. It wasn't until they reached their teenage years or got married that they bought a linen garment, even from aristocratic families who were not poor in money.
In the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, a child should be naked, and a child in clothes was a freak.
Okay, those brave girls in Jinjiang who traveled to ancient Egypt to find romantic aiqing, are you ready to live naked in broad daylight for more than ten or even twenty years? Well, if you're all naturist camp enthusiasts, I didn't say it.
But it's best to take the time to do a search online before you cross over to prevent your breasts from sagging during development when you don't have any clothes to wear, how to make sunscreen with natural herbs, and how to weave simple menstrual bands from the reed stalks that are abundant on the banks of the Nile...... I believe that it will be very useful when you get there - in ancient Egypt there were neither tampons nor toilet paper, and the so-called papyrus was not so much paper as a thinner triple plywood, and it was so expensive that no one wanted to take it to wipe their butts......
Even if you travel directly through the past as an adult, the costumes of ancient Egypt are still shameful in the eyes of modern people, especially Chinese.
-- As can be seen from the reliefs and frescoes, the supreme Egyptian pharaohs were only wearing a short skirt or loincloth called "nug white", shirtless on their upper body, a headscarf around their heads, a necklace around their necks, and slippers or sandals on their feet...... Huh? How does the face of the Pharaoh always remind me of the shirtless watermelon seller downstairs with a towel wrapped around his head?
As for the typical dress of Egyptian women, it is the modern "chunik" - a sleeveless tubular skirt that is open to the breasts and shoulders, long or short, sometimes with one or two shoulder straps, similar to the simplified tube skirt of the low-cut skirt of a modern bar dancer.
From the upper class of the aristocracy to the common people, the Egyptian costumes were basically like this, men wore short skirts shirtless, and women wore off-the-shoulder low-cut skirts, the style was not much different, the difference was only in the dyeing, patterns, fabric texture, gold and silver ornaments, etc.
Shoes in ancient Egypt were also expensive, and most people chose to walk barefoot, and only the wealthy could afford to wear sandals. As for socks, bras, and panties...... At that time, it had not been invented, not even pants - pants were the original of horseback nomads, and the farming peoples did not wear pants at first, even the conservative Chinese did not wear pants under the robe until after King Zhao Wuling's "Hu Fu Riding and Shooting".
(You can imagine the scene of Confucius accidentally exposing his cock in public while reciting "The gentleman is frank, and the villain often chirps...... )
Therefore, if you want to write a romance essay strictly in the context of ancient Egypt, then you will become two naked children who are not ashamed, throwing "elephants" and playing with mud on the banks of the Nile River while falling in love...... It seems to kill the scenery! …,
In addition, even after adulthood, Egyptians were often naked at home - there was no air conditioning in those days, the room was stuffy and hot, and when they wore clothes, they quickly became wet with sweat.
Therefore, the clothes of the ancient Egyptians, in fact, are equivalent to modern dresses and uniforms, which are worn outside to show status, as for casual clothes and underwear...... At that time, cloth was so expensive that a single loincloth (similar to the crotch cloth of a modern sumo wrestler) was considered valuable. And the women's tube skirt, which consumes more fabric, is the most valuable dowry that is indispensable for girls, similar to the modern "three major pieces of marriage", it is good for ordinary people to have a good dress at home - in this way, everyone usually has to be naked.
Remember, in the ancient Egyptian mindset, clothing was basically seen as an ornament rather than a daily necessity.
In this way, in ancient Egyptian society, it was commonplace for people to run naked in the streets or to buy and sell naked in the market, and there was no shame in it—but it was not to wear clothes, but amulets were not to be worn, otherwise they would be ridiculed.
A Westerner who fanatically admired the ancient Egyptian civilization did not recognize the ancient Egyptians as an undisciplined people in his paper, claiming that any ancient Egyptian naked in public would be ridiculed except for commoners, slaves, and children...... But the problem is that after deducting these three items, it seems that only adult aristocrats are left - I am afraid that they do not account for 1% of the total population!
Thus, the ancient Egyptian aristocracy did not like to travel naked, not because of shame, but because of their own style—just as the modern rich must drive a limousine when traveling, and wear high-end fashion to a ball.
Of course, if it is a man who has traveled to the aristocratic family of ancient Egypt, it may be very pleasing - in order to avoid damaging expensive clothes, the maids of the aristocratic families of ancient Egypt usually worked naked, and only wore clothes on formal occasions such as going out, festivals, or holding banquets. And often only the waist is wrapped, but the chest is exposed - in order to save fabric, some women also wear short skirts or loincloth wraps like men.
Perhaps because the clothing industry was so miserable, the art of make-up and body painting in ancient Egypt was quite good—drawing the eyebrows and the corners of the eyes with ink; Use malachite and aluminium ore to paint the eye circles greenish-gray; make lipstick with red ochre and ointment; Dye nails, palms and soles of feet with henna; As for the most fashionable ancient Egyptian ladies and ladies, they would paint their breasts in gold and the buds on the tips of their nipples blue - it is conceivable that they must have gone to the banquet bare-chested or even naked.
Therefore, when the flowery male protagonist is cheating with the ladies and ladies of ancient Egypt, he must remember to let her take a good bath first. Otherwise, when you are kissing and rolling the sheets, you will unfortunately taste a mouthful of pure natural toxic and harmful minerals, which is not something to be happy about.
As for the lowly Egyptian slave girls, dancers, and prostitutes, they were all naked in normal times, except that the dancers and prostitutes had some gold and silver ornaments on their bodies - in a sense, ancient Egypt was a huge celestial camp.
Modern strippers who can pole dance, if you travel to ancient Egypt shijie, must be very popular, because the ancient Egyptian dancers are dressed like the strippers in Las Vegas, a modern American casino, are naked and hung with many metal chain ornaments for performance. However, there were no steel pipes in ancient Egypt, and even brass pipes were unaffordable for ordinary people, so strippers could only dance around wooden pillars over there.
As for letting the Egyptian dancers wear a looming gauze and dance belly dance with a veil over their veils...... That was at least the time of the Roman Empire, or later, after the Arab invasions.
So, all of you who respect the traditions of ancient Egypt, hurry up and throw away the superfluous things like festivals and clothes!
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