Zulu's open dress

Zulu women in South Africa, especially before marriage, do not wear tops according to traditional customs, and their private parts are made of animal skins to cover them a little. However, modern Zulu costumes are also very trendy and fashionable. The bottom decoration is made from the original simple animal skin, which has evolved into fashionable cut animal skin and hand-woven decorative beads.

Test chastity

Verifying virginity is an ancient Zulu ritual. Dozens of kilometers of 15-and 16-year-old girls in Fiona Fang came to a specific place on a specific day, lying side by side on a straw mat on the ground, and being examined by elderly women of the same race. It is said that these elderly women have undergone certain professional training and know how to identify a complete hymen. This is a solemn ceremony, and this is an absolute "girl country", and all men, including little boys, are not allowed to enter.

All the verified virgins will put a little mud on their foreheads, and then these marked girls will line up to receive the "virgin certificate". The virgin certificate is a symbol of purity and beauty, and it is the "chastity archway" for these girls.

The ceremony of verifying virginity originated from the Zulu people's sacrifice to the "virgin god". Zulu people believe that if this goddess is not given due respect, she will attack human beings with natural and man-made disasters, and human beings, especially women, must remain chaste if they ask for her blessing.

With the changes of the times, this ceremony has been lost. Nowadays, the retro style of verifying virginity is blown again, because some people think that women must respect themselves. Zulu people's marriage tradition is polygamy, and women's status is not paid due attention, which makes some women's chastity concept indifferent, and then the number of unmarried mothers increases, and the phenomenon that children only know that their mothers don't know their fathers increases.

Zulu people attach great importance to chastity, but modern Zulu girls get pregnant frequently before marriage, which makes Zulu king anxious. He believes that the culprit of teenage pregnancy is Zulu men, so he ordered unmarried young men to have a chastity check, and once they were found not to be virgins, they would be punished.

As for how to check, Zulu's rule is to let boys pee in public. If the height of the urine jet reaches or exceeds the top of the head, it is a virgin, otherwise it must have tasted the forbidden fruit.

In order to stop the spread of AIDS and make women respect themselves, Zulu people resumed the tradition of verifying their virginity more than ten years ago and became popular in South Africa a few years later.