Dirty Facts About Ancient China You Didn't Know! #history #historyfacts #historyfactsdaily #shorts

Welcome to a mind-bending journey through the annals of time! In this captivating YouTube short, we dive headfirst into the realm of history, unearthing some of the most mind-boggling and eccentric tales ever recorded. Get ready to have your mind blown as we present a whirlwind of crazy and bizarre historical facts that will leave you astounded! IN THIS VIDEO #history #historyfacts #historyfactsdaily #shorts Dirty facts about ancient China You didn't know they ate eggs soaked in a little boy's urine. Ancient Chinese medicine was advanced. Chinese scholars had ideas that wouldn't reach the West for thousands of years. But in the crude early forms the ancient Chinese used, these treatments were a bit less appetizing. Like, for example, the ancient Chinese dish Tong Zidan, or, in English, eggs boiled in a young boy's urine. Chinese women, whether they were rich or poor, were encouraged to bind their feet as tightly as humanly possible. The goal was to keep your foot less than 4 inches long, which left it a crushed, mutilated mound of flesh they called a Lotus foot. At its peak, almost every upper class woman and 50% of the lower class bound their feet. Men eagerly castrated themselves. Eunuchs and ancient China were allowed to work as servants to the emperor. For a poor person, that was the best shot at a better life you could have. A lot of parents would castrate their children at birth, but if your parents didn't think ahead, it was a decent and fairly popular career move for a grown man to castrate himself. #ChineseHistory#AncientChineseMedicine#CulturalPractices#TongZidan #LotusFoot#FootBinding#Eunuchs#SocialHierarchy#Servitude#Castration #GenderRoles#ClassDistinctions#UnusualCulinaryPractices #MedicalHistory#AncientChinaRevealed#SecretsOfThePast #ShockingHistory#CrazyCulturalFacts#UnbelievableTraditions #MindBlownMoments#WeirdButTrueHistory#TabooTales #CultureShock#EpicThrowback#JawDroppingFacts #ViralHistoryLesson#InsaneAncientPractices#FascinatingDiscoveries #MustWatchHistory