Can you believe it? In the Arctic Circle, where Bei Ye can not live for 3 days, there is a group of people who have lived here for thousands of years by eating raw meat and treating guests with their wives.
In the Arctic Circle, where temperatures are around minus 30 all year round, the weather is so cold that no one should be living here.
However, there is such a group of people, we call them "Inuit", in addition to facing the natural environment of perennial low temperatures, at the same time, they also have to face the phenomenon of polar night and polar day for up to half a year.
For us, it was a very natural sight to see the sunrise and sunset, but for the Inuit, it was a rare sight.
The Inuit have a peculiar diet, because there is not enough temperature to live and cook, so they prefer to eat raw meat, and the infamous "pickled puffin" is a delicacy here.
Every spring, the Inuit catch puffins with nets, and the container "seals" are indispensable for pickling puffins, which are stuffed into the seals' stomachs, sewn up and placed in stone piles, where they can be eaten for a few months.
It is said that the taste is very tender, I don't know if anyone has eaten it in front of the screen, in addition, the Inuit also have a very strange custom, that is, "treat guests with wives", what is going on?
Treating guests with wives and eating raw meat, why are the Inuit people's living habits so unique? When spring and summer arrive, the Inuit can catch fish nearby to eat.
But in the winter, it can't be done, because there are almost no fish, and if you want to eat fresh fish, you have to go far away to catch whales, and everyone has seen on TV, how big the whale is, and it is not enough to rely on a person's knife and fork.
Therefore, if you want to catch whales, you must act as a team, as long as everyone works together and discusses countermeasures, it is not a problem to deal with a whale.
Often it is the man who goes out to hunt, and the woman stays at home, at this time the man will find a nearby friend to take care of the women in the family, and at the same time allow them to have sex during this period, I have to say, it is really generous.
It is well known that the Inuit tribe belongs to a large tribe of about 20 people, and the Inuit settlement is very dispersed.
As a result, in every small tribe, the situation of intermarriage and reproduction often exists, and intermarriage will cause many congenital shortcomings of the offspring to be born, so the traditional way of "borrowing a wife" gradually exists.
The child born is also taken care of by everyone, because everyone will treat this child as their own, so what other skills do the Inuit have?
Can you believe it? There is a unique way to stay near the Arctic Circle - igloos, and you may wonder why they don't choose warm stone huts in the face of biting cold winds, and the igloos are not colder.
The igloo is shaped like a dome-shaped studio, and this unique architectural design can well isolate the cold air currents from the outside world and maintain a relatively warm climate inside the igloo, and the Inuit people skillfully use the thermal insulation of snow and ice to cope with the extreme cold of the local climate.
Igloos have been in the Arctic for thousands of years, and the Inuit have made them indestructible by piling up and compacting snow blocks.
Inside, there is a large ice bed for maximum comfort and convenience, and usually the entrance to the igloo has a small snow bank to isolate the inflow of cold air and also protect the igloo from glacial meltwater.
There will be a small stove inside the igloo to cook food and provide warmth, and the water vapor generated will indirectly strengthen the igloo when it floats onto it.
At night, the Inuit huddle in heavy fur to keep their bodies warm and struggle to conserve limited fuel. What do you think about an igloo that lasts for at least a few months, and by the time spring comes, the igloo will melt gradually?
Scientific rambling