Original title: What affects the height of Chinese people? In the past and the future, the height of the Chinese is the highest
After reading the title, you must be confused:
"How can a Chinese be the tallest? This is not true."
Yes, the Chinese are not the tallest at present, taller than other European and American countries, and taller than Koreans of the same race.
However, the highest I am talking about is not the present, but that the Chinese used to be the highest and will be the highest in the future.
The Chinese used to be the highest
Let's talk about once.
In the pre-Qin period, most of the pure Huaxia people (the predecessor of the Han nationality) were taller than one meter seven, and there were many people who were less than eighteen meters tall. The average height should be close to 1.8 meters.
The unearthed pure Huaxia skeletons are on average one meter and seven meters tall, and an additional 10 centimeters are needed before they are alive. In the same period, the average height of Romans was only 1.6 meters, and the Germans were between 1.6 and 1.7 meters.
Ancient China is undoubtedly the tallest person in the world, and the number of people is so huge that other countries in the world cannot compare.
Therefore, the Chinese are not only not short, but have always been taller than Westerners in history. Only in the last few hundred years have they been poor and weak. They reached the lowest point in history until the Qing Dynasty ruled. That is 160cm.
Life has improved in the last thirty years, and the average height of the Chinese has returned to over 170cm.
In fact, the height of a person is related to genes and acquired nutrition. It is not only related to genes that we previously recognized.
The reason why Chinese people (mainly men) have recovered to more than 170cm in 30 years and their height has increased so fast is mainly because of their good genes.
It should be known that the height of Europe has only increased rapidly after the Industrial Revolution in 1750, but it has only increased by 20cm in 300 years, and it has only increased by 10 cm in 150 years.
The best Chinese gene
Really speaking, judging from the growth rate under the same conditions and the historical height of nearly five thousand years, the genes of the Chinese are absolutely optimal.
The reason is that Chinese genes have a better effect on height than Westerners (including European, American, Russian and other European races). China is generally higher than Westerners in history, and the height growth rate in recent decades has also been faster than Westerners .
Also, Chinese genes have a better effect on height than any race in the East.
Needless to say Southeast Asia, South Korea is currently higher than the Chinese because it developed 40 years earlier than China.
But observing the situation of the Korean country and the Korean people living in China, the Chinese Han people are higher than them.
It can be seen that under the same conditions, Han genes have a better effect on height than Koreans, while Chinese genes have a better effect on height than Koreans.
Even the Chinese are genetically superior to blacks.
Due to the error of media and film, the public generally thinks that black people are tall, but this is only an individual impression instead of the overall impression.
Actually, the average height of Chinese has always been higher than that of blacks.
If you want to talk about tall people, most Chinese people are more than 2 meters tall, and some Chinese people grow up to 3 meters 1 (the latest record is Chinese Han Zhan Shichai).
If they go to Africa, will Africans think that the Chinese are more than 3 meters? If Jack Ma (1.60 meters) arrives atDo Africans think that Chinese are as tall as them?
Individual black Americans have lived in superior conditions in the United States for hundreds of years, and their height is generally higher than that of African blacks, but this also proves the influence of time and acquired nutrition on height, and does not prove that genes affect their height more than Chinese There are advantages.
It can be seen that the influence of genes on height is still that Chinese people are better than black people.
The age of the lowest height of the Chinese
Because of the shortness of our grandparents, it is undoubtedly unwise to imagine the earlier ancients as smaller dwarfs.
The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China are probably the lowest points of average height per person in ancient China.
In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the per capita height of northern Chinese men degraded to 162-165cm, which was significantly lower than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
This is because the expansion of agriculture is far from keeping up with the growth of population, leading to a rapid decline in per capita food consumption, which reached its lowest point at the end of the Qing Dynasty-350 jin/year.
There was a rebound in the Republic of China, but by 1949 it was only 418 kilograms per year.
In the feudal era, soldiers in combat need to consume two catties of raw rice every day. Due to the lack of meat, ordinary people also need at least one catty to meet their needs.
Obviously, if the per capita food in an ancient regime was 350-400 jin, the people would be generally hungry.
The popularization of high-yield crops in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China also caused a huge impact.
These American visitors, who are universal, drought-tolerant and high-yield, are exceptionally deficient in nutrients and can only make people full.
Due to the high water content of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and pumpkins, when people eat high-yield crops and feel full, they often consume less energy than rice of the same quality.
Even if the energy intake is the same, 100 grams of rice is compared with 350 grams of sweet potatoes. At this time, the energy provided by the two is approximately 343 kcal, so the protein of sweet potatoes is only about 50% of rice.
Undoubtedly, although the popularization of high-yield crops played an important supplementary role in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China where population pressure was huge, it caused the average height of the Chinese to further decline.
Ending
In modern times, due to historical reasons, the height of the Chinese has dropped repeatedly and finally surpassed by the West.
However, you must know that the height genes of Chinese are better than those of the West.
From the Republic of China to the present age, the average height of Chinese people is also rising, especially now that China is becoming more and more prosperous, and the average height of the new generation will only get higher and higher.
I believe that in the future several hundred years from now, our children and grandchildren will wait until their highest day in the world. Return to Sohu, see more
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