For example, in "Natural History" written by Pliny, an ancient Roman scholar, menstrual blood will wither crops and inhibit seed germination and bee death. Another incredible idea is that menstrual blood will corrode steel. Medieval Europeans thought that children born in the same room during menstruation would have red hair, and red hair was their demon image. In ancient China, the idea was the same, except that they thought that children born during menstruation had red faces.
Blood is regarded as a terrible existence, and women are suffering. This is a physiological condition, which is inevitable and beyond women's control. In this way, ancient women will be isolated during menstruation to prevent them from entering temples. They don't allow them to touch the food men want to eat. A tribe in Siberia even thinks that the gas exhaled by women during menstruation is toxic. People who exhale will be submerged by the sea.
During the boxer movement, some people thought of hanging menstrual cloth on the top of the tower to avoid being attacked by foreigners. During the Republic of China, the custom of widowhood still existed in remote mountainous areas. In order to protect herself, the widow borrowed the horrible menstrual characteristics of symbols and held a menstrual belt in her hand to protect her pants from menstrual pollution. Weapons. Menstrual blood is not only used as a weapon, but also considered as a magical drug to exorcise evil spirits. For example, in some villages in southwest China, children are given menstrual blood if they cannot be cured for a long time. They think it will be eliminated. Evil spirits are possessed by children. Compared with ancient women, women living in modern society are so lucky that they will not be discriminated against, nor will they be controlled to get menstrual blood, and they will not risk reducing menstrual blood. Fortunately, with the help of science, the ancient menstrual taboo has been broken, making the public look at menstruation more rationally.