"People are poor and performing their art in the street, and tigers are thin and hurting people." A common saying tells the current situation of the lowest-level artists in ancient times. In a feudal society where farming is the first priority, as long as you have a meal, farmers generally will not leave their hometowns. However, for some poor families who are unsustainable, it is a last resort to wandering around the world to perform their art.
Street art sales are also divided into different schools, such as fire swallowing, somersault, stacked , and martial arts, which are more difficult skills. Many of them require children to train their body flexibility and flexibility from an early age to be competent.
In 2019, many folk artists in Zhangjiajie, Hunan performed fire-breathing skills in public. It is understood that this technique requires the use of special oil to spray out the mouth through the air in the dantian. It requires years of hard practice with kerosene to overcome the habit of drinking kerosene and want to vomit. Many people will practice until their mouths are molted thousands of layers.
On the other hand, not all the people who perform in the world are kind people, and many people make a living by cheating. Among them, the more famous one is that there are often people selling "Dali Pills" on the overpass during the Ming and Qing dynasties. A strong man pulled a hundred kilograms of bow in public to show that he was strong, and then promoted the so-called tonic medicines to everyone. In fact, these Dali Pills are often made of flour and are purely "IQ tax".
In these gimmicks, there is a trick called " Vase Girl ", which still existed in some places until 2017. The so-called "vase girl" is a girl whose body grows in a vase and whose head is exposed outside the vase. It has a very visual impact. Such a curious picture can often attract many viewers.
"Vase Girl" is actually a visual error?
What is going on with "Vase Girl"? Some people may have heard of this rumor: some criminal gangs will trick some poor girls into cheating and cheating, and let the girl live in a jar when she was young. Because the jar restricts the growth of her body, her body will gradually shrink in the long run, and only her head is the same size as an ordinary person. The criminal gangs use such deformities as selling points to make profits.
In fact, such behavior is more difficult to operate. In real life, the so-called "vase girl" uses people's information errors to confuse the audience.
In the 1980s and 1990s, people's education level was not high, and many feudal superstitious ideas were still popular in rural areas. In daily life, there is no entertainment in the era without the Internet. In their spare time, villagers just gather together to drink, play cards, go to markets, visit homes, and join in the fun everywhere. Under such circumstances, as long as you come to the local acrobatic troupe, it will easily attract a large group of audiences.
The acrobatic troupes with "Vase Girl" exhibited often gather a small house and describe "Vase Girl" as a beautiful young girl in promotional advertisements. Some will answer audience questions and sing for the audience to attract customers. When the guest walked into the small house out of curiosity, the tour guide who had been waiting aside would start telling the story of "Vase Girl" to the guests.
In the speech of the tour guide, the "Vase Girl" has been weak since childhood and needs to rely on medicine to maintain life. Due to the special physical condition and the side effects of the medicine, they can only live in the vase. They have been integrated into part with the vase for a long time. Once they leave the vase, they will die immediately.
In the small dark room, the audience can indeed see the "Vase Girl" from a distance: a vase is connected to the neck, which looks like living in a vase, which makes many people amazed. However, the audience usually can only watch from a distance, not close to the "Vase Girl", let alone touch it close. In this regard, the reason given by the tour guide is that the girl has a special physique and may be infected with fatal bacteria when exposed to outsiders.
For some people questioning the problem that the vase girl is actually hiding behind the vase, the tour guide often lifts the tablecloth on the table, allowing people to see that the table is empty. In the face of the facts I saw with my own eyes, many people will be skeptical about these stories.
In fact, there are many flaws in the story of "Vase Girl", and its principle is simple refraction of light. First, let the girl sit behind the vase, then place two flat mirrors between the girl and the vase at an angle of 90 degrees, and complete the picture through the reflection of the mirror, which causes visual deception to people. Since the exhibition room is usually dimly lit and there are many curtains arranged, and the tour guide will constantly urge the audience to leave, so the time left for the audience to discover this visual trap is very limited.
As people's education level increases and their understanding of science improves, scams like "Vase Girl" are now very rare. The disappearance of this performance also shows that the overall social cognition and public security level are improving, and the scammers and deceptions are gradually disappearing.
