Asking for a child can only be blamed on women, and it may also be the responsibility of men.
According to the survey, more than 40% of post-90s have no sex, let alone have children.
Can the child eat it? Young people love their jobs more than children ( pure bullshit ).
Sadie in [Private Life] said that he did not intend to have children for his career.
However, droughts die from droughts, and floods die from floods. Some people do not want to live, and some people do not want to live.
For Richard and Rachel, who are infertile in the film, when they reach middle age, they are too anxious to conceive a child.
To this end, they arranged for adoption while assisted reproduction.
Having spent all his savings in countless fertilization experiments, he didn't even have time to put on his sperm collection pants, so he called his relatives to borrow ten thousand dollars to save the farm.
This can't help but think of the ancient people's enthusiasm for eating animal testicles and drinking a large bowl of fertility soup in order to conceive a child.
In fact, in the matter of seeking children, from ancient times to the present, the mentality of all human beings has been the same.
Do your best to ask God to worship Buddha, even if you forward 100 koi, you will be willing.
At the beginning of human birth, the mortality rate was very high, giving birth to children and saving incense were the top priorities.
At first people did not understand fertility, but the ideas of the peoples of the world are very consistent, and the unilateral role of women is regarded as everything.
In primitive society, it was believed that women depended on women to give birth to children, and they worshiped women's fertility very much, even to the extent of superstition, forming the original matrilineal clan.
The goddesses enshrined in the European land at that time were not the gods in myths, nor the temperamental beauties that people think today.
It is a portrait of a woman with a fat body, an E cup, a big belly, and a strong reproductive capacity. The face has no features, and it all depends on whether it can be born or not.
So the women of East Prussia went to the fields naked to sow seeds, and the women of Finland used menstruation to set seeds, which means a way of praying for a good harvest.
The Baganda people in Central Africa are even worse. Men choose to divorce their wives because they think that this will affect their orchards without a good harvest because their wives cannot conceive.
However, in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, the reproductive status of men was significantly elevated, and it was no longer women, but male genitals, who worshipped children.
The ancient Greeks used wood and stone to make a phallus-like statue of Hemes, which was placed on the street and under a tree, just like our "Goddess of Mercy", which was regarded as the god of pregnancy.
Any woman who wants to have a child will go to worship, hug the idol and rub with her body.
There were even large-scale sacrificial activities in ancient Rome. There were temples dedicated to worshiping male genitalia, and there were lively parades...
A girl who was worried that she would not be able to give birth to a child wears a penis-shaped ornament on her body early.
However, the way ancient Egyptian women asked for children was very poetic. They believe in the power of moonlight more than male genitalia.
To conceive a child, they would lie on moonlit ground for hours, drink moonlit water, and eat moonlit food.
In their view, it seems that fertility does not require a man's sperm, but the moonlight appears to send the child into the womb.
Like ancient Egypt, ancient China also believed in the moon for children .
On the brick paintings unearthed from the Han tombs, Fuxi and Nuwa are painted. Fuxi is the sun god holding the sun, and Nuwa is the moon god holding the moon.
In ancient myths and legends, there is a story of Nuwa "creating man", so people worshipped the moon goddess Nuwa in order to ask for a child.
And the ancient Chinese and ancient Egyptians had a surprisingly consistent concept of the role of moonlight, believing that it could make a woman pregnant.
The difference is that we let the moonlight shine directly on the woman's abdomen, expecting it to slowly expand like the moon.
In the literature of the Western Han Dynasty, another moon god named Chang'e is recorded .
She left her husband Hou Yi to fly to the moon and turned into a toad, living in the moon palace, with a belly as big as a pregnant woman, which means begging for a child.
According to the research of later generations, in fact, Nuwa, Chang'e, Shang'e, etc. all used the same person, but they were all the goddesses who sent children in the Moon Palace.
Therefore, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to seeking a good harvest and reunion, there is also the purpose of seeking children.
In fact, on the road of seeking children, China is no less than any other nation in the world.
As a representative of eastern culture, our way of seeking children is more subtle and introverted than that of the West, full of symbolism and imagination.
The way to ask for a child is not only to pray to Guanyin and the moon god.
In "The Original Thing" says:
When Mrs. Li first arrived, the emperor welcomed him into the tent and sat together. After drinking happily, the people in the warning palace scattered five-color concentric flowers and fruits. The emperor and his wife dressed them in robes.
This is the "casting tent" . The "five grains", which symbolize many sons and more blessings, are thrown into the tent to give the newlyweds the power to procreate.
In addition to spreading the five grains, it is more to spread the five fruits as the emperor prepared for Zhen Huan in "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
That is, dates, peanuts, longan, lychees, walnuts, chestnuts, lotus seeds, etc., each of which contains the imagination of giving birth.
This custom of "casting a tent" to ask for a child is still in use today.
For Japan, grains are also a good way to seek children.
When the Japanese royal family holds a wedding, women who get married must go to the shrine to worship their ancestors according to the rules.
Rice bran is the husk of rice. In Japanese, it is like a woman's womb, giving birth to new life.
In particular, smearing rice bran in front of Amaterasu will bring more children and more blessings.
But in the traditional feudal society, science is still blocked from the door of decay.
People always think that asking for a child is a woman's business, and it is the woman's belly that can't give birth to a child.
In 1677, Dutch scientist Anthony Leeuwenhoek first observed sperm under a microscope.
At about the same time, eggs were observed again.
But it was a century later that the egg needed to be fertilized to become a fertilized egg.
That is to say, until the 1870s, the German zoologist Oskar Hertwig demonstrated the process of egg fertilization with sea urchins.
It was only then that people realized that seeking children had to be blamed only on women, and it could also be the responsibility of men.
Just like in [Private Life], Richard's semen has no sperm, and Rachel's egg waits a lifetime to become a fertilized egg.
But theoretically speaking, conception is not as easy as people think, but requires luck like the ancient ancestors worshipped gods.
The average male ejaculate contains 250 million sperm, less than 100 million are not easy to conceive, and more may cause miscarriage.
After entering the female vagina, they have to run to the egg like a sports competition, and in the end only one of the prince's favorites succeeds.
But they tend not to fuse with the egg right away, but to observe it around for a few days.
If the quality of the sperm is not high and it is impatient to live, it is very likely to die in these few days, and the conception will fail.
A normal conception process is so difficult, let alone a problem with the reproductive system.
In addition to objective physical problems, the psychological state of husband and wife also affects fertility.
For example, Xu Lai in the movie [Hong Kong 囧] was nervous because having sex with his wife became a routine, and he was unable to conceive a child for a long time.
In the 1980s, doctors surgically injected sperm into women's abdomens, and artificial insemination brought human fertility to the track of science.
However, its conception success rate is only 10%-15%, and scientific methods still need the assistance of theology.
Asking for a child is like forwarding a "koi", success or failure depends on luck.
It is very likely that the ancestors had seen through this when they worshipped the gods thousands of years ago.
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Author/Two years younger
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Bao Ci Er"
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