The "Shame Theory" Of The Origin Of Clothing

There are stories about the origin of human beings in myths and religious legends all over the world. This also accounts for the origin of clothing, and the Christian shame is more influential.

In the Christian Bible, God created heaven and earth, and he built an Eden to live in Adam, the first man of his generation.

Adam was told that he could eat all kinds of fruit on his own, but he could not eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil.

Later, Adam was very lonely. God extracted a rib from Adam and made a woman. This is Eve.

The two men were husband and wife, naked, living in the garden of Eden.

Until one day, a sinister snake tempted them to eat the good and evil fruit that God did not eat, and they realized their nudity, and suddenly felt ashamed, and they covered their own private places with fig leaves.

After knowing God, he was furious and drove them out of the garden of Eden.

And punish them for ever surviving in suffering. Men must work constantly and women will suffer from childbirth.

Later, both men and women were clothed and clothed.

In eighteenth Century, Darwin put forward the theory of evolution, breaking the theory of God making man, and the shame theory originated from Christianity can not be established naturally.

But the idea of dressing for shame still has a great impact.

In recent years, anthropologists and sociologists have drawn a conclusion based on many years of research and thoroughly denied the shame, that is, there is no general sense of shame, shame or not, and different cultures have different standards.

In ancient Greece, the nude was beautiful. In the contemporary China, it was considered that "clothing is the rule of the world". Dressing is the symbol of civilization.