Recently, in Zibo, a pregnant woman was bound by the traditional concept of "confinement". The weather was hot, she didn't open the window for ventilation, didn't turn on the fan and air conditioner, and only wore long-sleeved trousers and a quilt, which eventually led to heatstroke.
This is a tragedy, and what is even more impressive is that it is a conventional tragedy. Every year or two, there will always be news that pregnant women died of heatstroke in summer because of confinement. As for the heatstroke caused by this, it is too common and not even news.
Young people are often confined because their elders are strong.
In fact, it is needless to say that there is a moderate confinement. In the era of changing living conditions and the vigorous development of modern medicine, it can be said that confinement is not credible. Pregnant women do not need the traditional medical knowledge of the older generation. The only thing they need to do is to listen to the doctor's professional guidance. Under the guidance of a doctor, there will never be strange requirements such as not eating salt, not taking a bath, not blowing your hair, and not getting out of bed.
Generally speaking, young people are not completely ignorant of this knowledge, but they still abide by the rules of confinement, often because there are strong old people and weak juniors at home. Pregnant women have to endure their own discomfort to meet the demands of their elders, who are also full of confidence in doing so, because it is based on tradition and life experience. Although this kind of life experience has no scientific reason, in the face of young people with higher education and wider knowledge, tradition is the only support for the elderly to maintain their authority. When tradition is denied, the authority of the elderly in the family will cease to exist.
In fact, the concept in the family is only a reflection of the whole social concept. After all, the concept of "confinement" has been passed down from generation to generation for two thousand years, and many concepts have penetrated into the bone marrow of many people. Pregnant women can resist the high temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius, which also reflects how deep-rooted these misconceptions are.
There is no custom of confinement in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea.
In fact, there are many people who oppose confinement for the simple reason. The most vivid reason is that there is no custom of confinement in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. However, one of the important reasons why defenders persist in this is that the constitution of China people is different from that of foreigners.
Since the physique of China people is different from that of foreigners, according to historical materialism, since the physiological basis has changed, as a superstructure, it will naturally change. Therefore, it's good that foreigners don't have confinement, and China people will definitely fall behind. Since medical care has changed, as a higher-level building-medical care, China people can naturally start a new stove, and Chinese medicine does not have to use the western medical standards of foreigners.
So, is there a difference between China people and foreigners?
There are genetic differences between different races, about one in ten thousand. However, a large number of biologists and bio-anthropologists classify large samples of respondents according to various demographic dimensions such as race, language or nationality, and the results are unexpected. They found that the genetic diversity within a population is much greater than that between populations. Simply put, if there are genetic differences between Americans and China people, then the genetic differences between Northeastern people and Sichuanese people will be even greater. More intuitively, Europeans and Americans are taller than Asians, but the height gap between Yao Ming and many short people is even greater.
The physical difference between China people and foreigners lies more in culture.
America is an immigrant country, with not only white people, but also yellow people and brown people. However, the FDA's medical audit standards have never set different standards because of racial differences, and it is even more impossible to set different medical theories because of racial differences. In fact, many countries of different races in the world, because of their small scale, can't afford a complete food and drug inspection agency, so they completely adopt the principle of taking FDA conclusions.
More ironically, there is a situation in which the differences between China people and foreigners are completely ignored. That's when Chinese medicine entered the world. Many Chinese medicine companies are eager to get FDA approval to go public in the United States. Even if they are not qualified for drugs for the time being, they will enter the American market in the name of dietary supplements and then go back to China for publicity. But they completely forgot that the FDA should use the white standard. Even if it can pass, what's the significance of Chinese medicine, a China thing?
It can be seen that foreigners' things entering China, such as "not confinement", will encounter different physical conditions; As soon as China's things were exported, the so-called "Europeans and Americans are different in physique from China, so we can't use uniform standards" was abandoned.
Perhaps the physical difference between China people and foreigners lies not in physiology, but in culture. If one day, China's culture will dominate the world, then foreign women with blond hair and blue eyes may have to experience the pain of confinement after giving birth.
Nothing can pass, proper rest is definitely needed, but excessive taboos are not good for people. As mentioned above, it would be a tragedy if people get lost.