"Eat raw meat, drink blood, and live in an igloo" is the most common living habits of the Eskimos living in the Arctic. In the Arctic, where the living environment is extremely difficult, the Eskimos are called "the yellow race on the Arctic Circle " and "the best hunter in the bitter and cold land".
They are tenaciously fighting against the harsh living conditions, making their food, clothing, housing, use, transportation and other aspects perfectly fit the surrounding environment.
In order to survive and reproduce, the Eskimos also retained the traditional and special cultural custom of "treating guests with their wives."
This weird ethical concept that will not be recognized and agreed upon in any other country in the world is actually a choice for the Eskimos to deal with the difficulty of continuing the racial population.
In other words, in the life of Eskimos, marriage is not the ultimate destination of love, but rather to say more accurately "Whether it is love or intimate relationship, it comes from the need for survival" .
The Eskimos survived tenaciously in the Arctic with a few swords and harpoons. In the Arctic, where people are rarely visited, the high and cold are rare, birds and beasts, the Eskimos formed a unique survival strategy and living customs of the ethnic group through thousands of years of exploration and adaptation, creating a miracle for humans to adapt to the harsh living environment.
Turn the roulette of time back to more than 7,000 years ago, a human group living on the East Asian continent crossed the Bering Strait , crossed the frozen strait land bridge to reach the cold Arctic Circle, and finally stayed in extremely cold places such as Alaska in the Americas, Greenland and Siberia .
Americans laughed at them for eating raw meat and drinking blood and eating raw meat all day long, just like savage , so They called this group of people in Indian language "Eskimos", which means "people who eat raw meat".
According to historians, Eskimos and Oroqen people living in northern my country have almost very similar living habits . They are both yellow people who are also used to wearing animal leather jackets and like to hunt animals.
The only difference is: Oroqen people like to hunt wild deer and roe deer in winter, while the Eskimos who live in the snow and ice are happy to hunt polar bear and whales .
In the Arctic, which is far away from industrial civilization and everything seems extremely original, the Eskimos can often stand firm and start a family and reproduce with just a few knives, shovels, and harpoons. They can freely exert the most primitive, powerful and majestic vitality of this human race, showing the extremely powerful resistance to stress and adaptability of human beings.
In the waters where salmon gather on the ice field, the Eskimos often lie on the surface of the ice layer, holding a harpoon in one hand and closely watching the fish in the water. Even if you need to maintain this posture for several hours, the Eskimos who are extremely capable of enduring hardship will never waver. If you are lucky, their final harvest will definitely be good.
Whether it is catching fish, catching seals, walruses , polar bears, or hunting huge whales, the Eskimos will flexibly break down food into pieces with the knife in their hands, and then allocate to family and friends as needed.
Eskimos understand the concept of unity and sharing. They know that only by helping each other and supporting each other can they live better and go further.
The temperature in the Arctic is extremely low in ice and snowy days, without wood or steel and cement. The Eskimos used shovels to dig, cut thick snow, and then made it into huge snow and ice cubes.
Men stack rectangular snow blocks or ice blocks interlaced to create a steamed bun-shaped house, and finally watered them between blocks and , so that the snow blocks and ice blocks quickly freeze, thus building a small home that is not airtight.
The best hunter in bitter and cold places takes "get food for survival" as the highest life program
In the Arctic, there is almost snowy all year round. In winter, the average temperature in the Arctic is usually around minus 60 degrees Celsius. At some extremes, the temperature in the Arctic can even be as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius, which can be said to be a glutton of snow and extremely cold.
In such a cold and extremely cold season, the Arctic Circle almost never grows, and bare and white ice fields and snow-capped mountains are everywhere.
Faced with an extremely difficult living environment, the early Eskimos could only endure hunger and often could not eat any food for several days.
In order to survive, the Eskimos developed the habit of eating prey raw, eating raw meat and drinking blood, and evolved a gastrointestinal system that can adapt to digest raw meat .
Because I can't eat any plant food for a long time, the Eskimos had to take vitamins, fat and other nutrients from Arctic ducks, salmons, deer, seals, whales and other animals.
At the same time, Because the Arctic lacks fuel and the effort to make fires, Eskimos usually eat raw fish raw meat.
Eskimos who eat raw meat all year round rely on their primitive and simple lifestyle to support themselves and their families and conquer the harsh natural environment of the Arctic. They are full of action, wisdom and courage in the process of grabbing food, so they are also known as "The best hunter in the bitter and cold land" .
Hunting is the only way for Eskimos to obtain food. In order to survive in the extremely cold Arctic and ensure that vital signs are sufficient to withstand low temperatures, the simple and brave Eskimos regard "get food for survival" as their highest life program.
Men will help each other and cooperate to hunt large animals such as seals, wild deer, whales, etc. When the animals are hunted, they will peel them with a knife and divide them into pieces, and then find ways to pull them back to the village and divide the meat into their families and neighbors.
In the lives of the Eskimos, you will not see their efforts to pursue the "persistence" of culture, art and spiritual wealth, nor will you see plotting, fighting, anger and attacks.
In the Eskimos' minds, people need to cooperate, help and care for each other, because the harsh living conditions of and the "threats and pressures" of extremely low temperatures make them realize that the highest program of life is how to obtain more food and how to keep the ethnic group going and not die.
The Eskimos’ unique concept of marriage ethics – treating guests with wives
In the Eskimos’ ethnic group, men and women will become husband and wife due to the inducement of hormones and the need for survival.
Men are warriors and protagonists in life. They hunt and eat and put in their energy, while women have children, take care of the elderly at home, sew clothes, and do housework.
Men and women know how to support each other. They also have the elements of love in their marriages, but in the Eskimo society, love is not a necessity of marriage, and it does not mean one-on-one loyalty and love forever.
Eskimos usually pursue "monogamy", and only a very small number of men with super-hunting abilities will provide for two wives at the same time.
Whenever night falls, the man who returns from hunting shakes off the ice and snow on his body, pushes open the small door of his igloo and returns to his warm family, he will sincerely lament the children and happiness his wife brings to him, but this does not mean that the couple will live together for the rest of their lives.
If a man is optimistic about other women after getting married, or the woman falls in love with another man after getting married, they will face the changes in their emotions calmly and naturally end the marriage relationship, and each pursues new feelings and lives.
Eskimos are usually short and thin. Although women can give birth to many children, it is very difficult for small babies to grow up smoothly in the cold Arctic. Many babies die halfway because they cannot adapt to the cold environment and do not have good medical conditions after getting sick.
On the other hand, the overall population of the ethnic group is not large, which makes the Eskimos not have more choices when getting married, so marriage between close relatives has become a common phenomenon.
But the consequences of Intimate marriage are very terrible - newborn babies have genetic defects and physiological deformities, and it is difficult for them to live until adulthood.
In order to improve the genes of offspring and to continue the ethnic group, the Eskimos will ask his wife to accompany the male guest overnight when the male guest comes to the home. If the wife is pregnant after the guest leaves, her husband will be very happy. This is the Eskimos' more peculiar marriage ethics - "Courage guests with their wives."
In fact, the traditional custom of "hospitaling guests with wives" is not entirely because the Eskimos are extremely hospitality. This ethnic group was deeply harmed by "inbreeding" in the past, so out of the need to improve genes and strengthen races, the Eskimos gradually formed the unique ideas and customs of "hospitaling guests with wives".
In the Arctic where the weather is cold and the survival is difficult, the Eskimos not only formed unusual eating habits, but also explored a unique marriage culture - "Calligraphy guests with their wives".
Think about it carefully, these behaviors that ordinary people cannot understand are actually helpless changes they make in conquering the Arctic and adapting to the environment.
The Eskimos eat raw meat, drink blood, and treat guests with wives, and have no right or wrong, because in their world, the highest survival program is to "live".
After all, for the Eskimos, the combination of men and women and the mutual help between men are actually derived from the needs of survival. If we have to live in the cold polar world, we may also agree with the Eskimos' life philosophy, because that is an inevitable choice under the rational control of human survival .
