Pygmean village is located in Sichuan to visit village of Ming Yang temple, sichuan saves village of Ming Yang temple to be after the collective of whole village person that passes mystery twice is articulatory and aching, the villager people stop to grow stature. Come on that sorely arrive all the time around just ended basically 1954. So here also became the name matches the reality " pygmean village " here in old people is 80 centimeters of right-and-left height commonly, according to statistic: At present whole village often adds up less also with respect to 800 people, or so what also height of a few youth goes to 1.6 meters in 1.4 meters about. Because these are old person capable person is short, action inconvenience, most old person is to live in the beadhouse of the village. Because these old person stature are short, more hardships should be paid compared with normal person in the life, go up to the town beyond more than 10 lis of ground for example go to market, normal person makes a round trip two hours left and right sides is enough, and the time that they are on one day. Accordingly, they are contacted with the outside rarely. Although the life is medium some are no-go, but they still hold to: The life provides for oneself, planting hard crops, do breeding also is an ace. The old secretary of a Party or League branch that occupies the village introduces: There are 80 much people when this village person is most, atomy has 30 many, one most has 6 atomy, most now 1 has 3 atomy. Although there are a lot of inconveniences in the life, but they try hard to hold to all the time, the life provides for oneself, and do breeding also is an ace. These atomy are in 34 years old when begin bone to have a headache, and aching is a few years, namely wherefrom moment begins, pygmean stature stopped to grow. For a short while gossip rise from all directions, the villager people suspecting everything beside, someone says is the potherb that local loves to take course of a kind of bug calling bug killed them, then they eliminate light completely with respect to the potherb that gets on around hill, the course confirms later, other village also is to take this course but happen without similar disease. Common saying says " one party natural environment raises one party person " , the villager that for generations life is here people also do not understand up to now? "Is the figure short " is fountainhead after all from why and come? Once the problem that somebody suspects that well that is their village, because he observes discovery,the banker in the ground used the water in that well also is long not tall, Without giving thought to how, these old people they each other very unite, of day or be able to pass, when doing not have a thing, sit together to pull help the daily life of a family. So they know Chang Le of content with one's lot, the most important is healthy than what good. | | |