10 strange customs in the world

The world is not unusual for the strange, bizarre, even, horrors, many practices now deleted.

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1.Geisha

Geisha is a traditional entertainment art form popular in Japan. From geisha is also used to refer to the girls work in this area. They are both talented dance music and the ability to chat, entertain guests.

There are many misunderstandings, especially outside of Japan about the nature of the geisha profession.Geisha; is a kind of healthy cultural performing arts, advanced, totally not sex acts, vulgar, cheap.

Heyday, Japan has a lot of geisha. For example, in the 1900s, number of geisa up to 25,000 people. As early 1930s, the number was 80,000. Most active geisha in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan. Today, the number decreased significantly. Currently Japan only reach 10,000 geisha, in which about 100 people working in the capital Tokyo.

The real geisha are increasingly rare. The modern geisha today are not in the geisha house as a kid and can not be sold here due to the poor house. Instead, they are willing to do this work.

However, the geisha still have to comply with the rules as before training. The young girl wants to be a geisha must learn all the traditional arts of Japan, from dancing, singing, music and painting as well as many other craft.

2.Eunuch

In ancient Chinese history, eunuchs emerged from the Western Zhou period. There are many different words to refer to eunuchs, for example, eunuch, public, urban, middle, inner ...

Eunuchs are men with "defects" genitals, usually recruited into the service provider to serve the kings

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the eunuchs began to be strengthened more when they are important. Do the right messenger, military look, as reviewed, the public should many eunuch catching the right.By the end of the Ming Dynasty, eunuch number up to 70,000.

Not only China, eunuchs also appears in many other cultures, particularly in the ancient oriental society, the "functions" like.

In addition, fire a boy before puberty appear in some cultures as a way to keep high, and the bar, make a special voice to later child can sing soprano .

3. Concubinage

The man of high social status or wealth often took more concubines, also known as the second wife. Status of wife is always lower than his first wife, also known as the ventricles. Therefore, their children born with low parts list than you.

4. Challenge duel

Start prevalent in the West since the 15th century to the 20th century, the challenge of dueling is a form of competition to use the deadly weapon of the nobility, especially in France. From the 15th to 18th centuries, often used for gladiator. But from the 18th century onwards, swords are replaced by guns, weapons that only aristocrats capable of ownership.

After a duel, a battle was held to resolve disagreements, personal conflicts, or restore honor. The gladiators are entitled to appoint representatives to play if they want to.

In a hand-to-hand battle, the gladiators do not aim to kill the enemy on the top. Instead, they proved themselves willing to risk life itself to wash the shame and restore the honor individuals ...

5. Suicide abdominal surgery

Suicide abdominal surgery, also known as Hara-Kiri is an ancient ritual of the Japanese samurai. This is an important part in the culture of Bushido (Bushido), but now abandoned

According to this protocol, a samurai will own stomach committed suicide when the "fall" or when the owner dies to avoid falling into enemy hands, humiliated or to express the absolute loyalty of the leaders.

However, the samurai can be the lord or king in feudal Japan ordered to own stomach. After this, the samurai were permitted or foul disgrace own stomach instead of being executed in the normal way.

For the purpose of this protocol is to protect the honor and the samurai who does not belong to the world will never have to or be ordered to perform this ritual. The female samurai perform this ritual only when instructed.

Before you own stomach, samurai bathing, wearing white robes, the last meal. Then, the instruments perform rituals own stomach is placed on a plate of samurai.

Before suicide, samurai would write a farewell poem. Next, they took off the kimono, taking a short sword (Wakizashi) or knife (tanto) and stabbed in the stomach, cutting a line from left to right.

The end of the ceremony, the samurai can ask others beheaded (called kaishakunin). The kaishakunin will make a neat slash, called daki-Kubi, almost as off much of the beginning of the samurai from the body (leaving only a thin strip of meat attached to the head to the body).

6. The sacrifice

This is a ritual murder to sacrifice divine or supernatural forces. This practice takes place in many ancient cultures around the world; including, sacrificial rituals in different parts of the same trait.

The victims turned into sacrifice, usually prisoners of war, babies or virgins, to please or appease the anger of the gods. Forms of sacrifice include: burned, beheaded, or buried alive.

We continue to use the living as sacrifice was considered a crime and prohibited worldwide. However, it is thought that, in the remote areas and isolated areas of the world, a few people may have conducted similar ceremonies.

7. Deformed feet

These are bad practices once prevalent in feudal China about 1,000 years ago and is only applied to young girls.Appear from the Tang Dynasty to the 12th century, further deformed feet become "one" in the world "noble", especially dedicated to the beloved woman of noble families, regal. However, by the end of his life, bad practices spread to the whole society and become the standard of beauty. The smaller girl legs, the more chance prestigious picky husband.

Therefore, this period, the Chinese girls from 5 to 7 years to start the ritual bundle foot when bones are soft and easily bent. She and her mother are often forced to strip (usually 3 m long, 5 cm wide) leg wrap their little girls.Ribbon wrapped tighter, more girls the opportunity to own beautiful legs later.

In the early years of deformed feet, the girls will suffer excruciating pain and unable to walk. Without their help, want to move to creeping or crawling. The following year, began hardened heel, because during deformed feet, the girls can only move with absolute heels but can not travel by foot or toes. Terrible beauty process ends when the girl owns perfect feet, usually length from 7 cm to 10 cm.

8. Self-immolation by husband

Self-immolation (sati) is a bad customs of the Hindu devotees. Accordingly, when the husband died and was carried away for cremation, widows have to jump into the pyre by her husband.

The act of self-immolation by her husband propaganda is based on voluntary but in fact, most of the widow was forced to make the creepy bad practices. It is believed that, if a widow perform Sati ceremony, families will get lucky seven life. Otherwise, they will have to face the scorn, curse of relatives and community.

There are many explanations of the origin of bad practices. One of them said that sati in order to prevent the possibility of cheating wife poisoned her husband. Another theory that, sati is derived from the legend of a jealous queen. She accepts death with the King to keep her husband in the afterlife. Bad practices were banned in India.

9. Self-mummification

Sokushinbutsu is calling the monks mummified himself. These monks, self-mummification, to go through a painful process of practice.

Before carrying out the process of mummification 3 years, they will have to comply with a strict diet. In this way, the fat and the meat part of the body of monks, things can decay after death, almost shrink before.

The next stage of the process of appetite even more extreme diet. Next three years, the monks of appetite a little bark or roots and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap Urushi. This helps to take the fluid in the body fast. However, more importantly, the poison in the tea will kill all kinds of organisms can cause rotting body after death.

Finally, the self mummified monk locked himself in a stone tomb no wider than the body is how and meditation.They only contact with the outside world through a breathing tube and a bell. Each day, the monks would ring the bell to indicate that he was still alive. When not ringing anymore, which means that the monk was dead and the grave is sealed.

10. Natural burial in Tibet

This is a horrible bad practices existed for a long time in Tibet. Dead bodies will be cut into small pieces, placed on top of the mountain and become prey for the scavenger birds, particularly vultures. Hardware such as bones will be smashed with sledgehammers, mixed with malt, throw to flood crows and hawks. The only place they do not touch the knife on top of that just to open brains out because this is where the soul and consciousness.

The reason Tibetans donate dead meat vulture is because they see this bird is "magical". They believe the bodies were vulture eat a good sign, the death will quickly sublimity. Chinese authorities also banned bad practices.

This is a horrible bad practices existed for a long time in Tibet. Dead bodies will be cut into small pieces, placed on top of the mountain and become prey for the scavenger birds, particularly vultures. Hardware such as bones will be smashed with sledgehammers, mixed with malt, throw to flood crows and hawks. The only place they do not touch the knife on top of that just to open brains out because this is where the soul and consciousness.

The reason Tibetans donate dead meat vulture is because they see this bird is "magical". They believe the bodies were vulture eat a good sign, the death will quickly sublimity. Chinese authorities also banned bad practices.

Theo Zing