The ancient Chinese were very concerned about their hair and beards, and considered long hair to be beautiful. Especially in the Spring and Autumn Period, aristocratic men had to comb their hair and take care of their beards every day. Some even went so far that it would be so perverted that even a single hair in their beards would be lost.
I'll be sad for a long time.
However, this habit was gradually formed in the Zhou Dynasty with the rise of etiquette. In fact, in the more ancient times, the Chinese did not have the tradition and habit of inheriting the body, hair and skin from their parents.
The only reason why it is longer is because there is no sharp tool to cut it short.
Especially for ordinary people, after thousands of years of history during the Xia, Shang and Wednesday dynasties, bronze smelting has gradually reached its peak, but metal knives are not popular among ordinary peasants, but are high-end luxuries that only nobles can enjoy and own.
Therefore, for ordinary people, cutting hair is also a very luxurious thing.
Coupled with the influence of feudal etiquette, the habit and tradition of growing hair and beards gradually formed.
But at the moment, these primitive people have no such concept at all.
Their long hair and beards are caused by natural growth. It is purely a habit formed out of desperation. They cannot shorten it even if it is troublesome, so no one has ever thought of shortening it.
After getting up every day, I habitually lick my hair with both hands a few times to sort it out. It is a very primitive animal habit and has the same concept as a cat licking its fur and a dog scratching its itch.
And it is limited to the front of the forehead, so looking at these savages, most of them have decent hair on both sides of the face, and the back of the head is like a big exploding chicken coop, with shapes that are both uniform and strange.
There is no such thing as hair oil. Primitive people worked all year round and there was very little fat in their food, so they had very little body fat. In addition, the salt content was low and the nutrition was unbalanced. There was almost no hair oil in the hair, but there were a lot of lice and fleas.
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Although Xu Chen was used to cutting his hair short before time travel, after time traveling, his savage body also inherited the habit of having hair all over his body, and he did not object to wearing long hair all day long, so he didn't even think of giving it to him.
Get a haircut yourself.
But it’s not too late to think about it today.
It feels much cooler and more comfortable if you do it this way.
Looking at the strange short hair of Xu Chen and Gu Ju, three half-grown men, a group of women laughed and laughed for a while and then went back to learn how to comb their hair and do embroidery, in preparation for the upcoming Mother's Day to seduce foreign men in fine clothes.
The remaining adult men looking after the house seemed to think that the short hair of Xu Chen and the others seemed cleaner and more comfortable, so they asked for help to shorten their hair. So Xu Chen had to transform into Tony Craftsman again, wielding a stone ax and charcoal, and started again.
A round of hair cutting.
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Beautifying a group of aunts was just Xu Chen's temporary idea.
Things like embroidering and tying hair have nothing to do with the rise or fall of the tribe.
In fact, in his opinion, it would be of no use even if the younger women of the tribe were all dressed up and dressed up. After all, there were only so many people, and they would be like a carrot and a trap. If there were too many men, it would bring about all kinds of conflicts.
He has thought about it. If he wants the tribe to really grow, there are only two ways to go.
One option is to use force to recruit other tribes to join, but this method will destroy the current blood relationship. Muba and a group of women will definitely not agree. Forcing it on their own will inevitably cause irreconcilable conflicts.
Therefore, this method is not feasible for the time being.
But he thinks the second method is still very promising.
The Wu family has a great cause, and there will definitely be many conflicts among the various ethnic groups within the tribe. The Ba family is actually a family split from the Uzbek tribe, and has similar blood relationships with all the internal ethnic groups of the Uzbek tribe. As long as there is sufficient strength and
With the favorable conditions, it is very possible to attract several families from the Uzbek tribe to join us.
Of course, doing so will definitely cause fierce conflicts with the Uzbek people, and will also complicate the internal relations of the Ba people, but it can quickly increase the tribal population without violating the tribal inheritance and blood structure.
If they can seduce one or two hundred people from the Wu tribe, then the Ba tribe will have enough strength to expand their territory, or even completely devour the Wu tribe and form a super tribe again.
As for the remaining tribes that do not have much blood relationship, they can be combined through a closer alliance.
The current loose alliance formed by six small and large tribes centered on the Uzbek people is simply put together based on the prestige of the great witch. It has no binding force and is of little practical significance.
Once the great witch dies and there is no new great witch that can be respected by all the tribes, this loose alliance may fall apart.
Therefore, Xu Chen didn't have any good ideas for the new tribal alliance.
We can only hope that the Ba tribe will develop quickly enough, and through their special abilities, they can gather the power of faith to replace the great witch and bring these tribes back together.
However, there is still great resistance to forming the new unified tribe that he wants regardless of blood and race. At least food, clothing and clothing must be solved first, otherwise all tribes will still struggle with two meals a day and surviving winter and spring.
After two busy seasons, without any extra time and power to develop the military and economy, this plan cannot succeed.
In other words, these two plans are actually the same, but the time sequence is different. They first rely on blood relations to increase their strength, and then use force to forcibly integrate them.
But this will inevitably destroy the tribal structure of matrilineal blood, and subsequently completely destroy the inheritance of this matrilineal clan.
This is a disruptive change.
Although the development of human civilization will inevitably take this step, how to reduce chaos and make all tribes accept it is still troublesome.
One is to form a new tribal structure directly based on patrilineal blood relations.
One is to form a more complex political structure in the form of a parliament.
Relying on patrilineal blood relations to strengthen rule is the simplest and most consistent process for the development of human civilization. However, if you want to form close tribal relations, you must open a wide harem, marry women from many tribes, have many sons, and then govern different tribes.
tribe.
And when he thought that he would sleep and give birth to a child with many black savages who didn't like bathing and wore fur skirts all day long, Xu Chen couldn't help but shiver hard.
"Wow!"
"Quack, quack, water comes out!"
Just when Xu Chen was standing next to the big pit digging a well, thinking wildly and with a troubled face, wondering whether he should open up a harem and marry many scary and stocky female barbarians, or become the speaker of an alliance parliament, Gu He came from the big pit.
He made strange screams of surprise and excitement.
Xu Chen came to his senses and quickly looked down. Sure enough, he saw a small puddle at the bottom of the pit after digging out a big stone.
When they heard that water was being dug from the well, a group of men and women who were working all gathered around to watch. A group of children who were playing with monkeys and wolves at the door also ran over excitedly and screamed, jumping and screaming around the pit.
However, this excitement only lasted for a short time and then disappeared.
Because there was no gurgling water coming out from the bottom of the pit like spring water, but just a little splash of water, so after looking at it for a while, everyone left in twos and threes with disappointed faces.
Xu Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
There was already water just after digging to about three meters, which was almost exactly as he predicted at the beginning.
The source of groundwater is the river bed. Under the pressure of several meters of soil and gravel, the hollowed-out position of the well will form a weak pressure area. As long as the well wall is hooped to prevent water from seeping into the surrounding sediment, the water level will slowly rise.
, as for how high it can rise, it depends on the pressure of the river water level.
Based on the analysis of the water level of the small river in front of us, it is estimated that it is half a meter to one meter deep. There should be no big problem in using water in spring and summer, but it will definitely not be enough in autumn and winter.
If you want this well to have water all year round, you'd better dig at least half a meter deeper.
So Xu Chen loudly reminded Gu and Ju to continue digging.
After working hard for more than ten days, the water was finally dug out. Gu and Ju were very excited, so they worked hard to continue digging.
After the water began to permeate, digging the sand and gravel was obviously much easier than dry digging. Listening to the faint clattering sound below, a rattan basket filled with sand and gravel was soon lifted up from the bottom of the pit by two men who helped.
The gurgling water kept dripping from the rattan basket, soaking Gu and Ju who were working underground.
Although Xu Chen felt a little guilty.
However, the two of them did not complain at all. Instead, they worked harder because they found it easier to dig.
"What two good comrades!"
Xu Chen stood at the entrance of the pit, looking at the huge pit like an open trumpet, and couldn't help but admire it in his heart.
In order to dig this well, the two dug out dozens of cubic meters of soil, sand and gravel, as well as hundreds of large and small stones, which now filled half of the courtyard.
After the well was dug, the two had to fill it back with sand, gravel and soil.
In the era before time travel, this seemingly huge project would have been completed in half an hour if professional well-drilling equipment was used. Even if there was no large equipment, just using a pickaxe, it would only take two people two days to complete it.
It's finished.
But now, the two of them have been working on this well for half a month.
This is the inefficiency caused by backward tools.
When digging to this depth, there are countless damaged wooden picks, stone picks and broken wooden sticks, and a lot of them are damaged every day.
Fortunately, these tools were not valuable, just wood and stones. Otherwise, Xu Chen would have vomited blood, and the tribe would not be able to afford this huge consumption.