A head squashed by an old man! Why is there a custom of sleeping flat head?

In the first few months after giving birth, many parents will be asked by the elderly at home to give their babies a flat head. In the experience of many old people, by forcibly changing the sleeping position, the baby's skull becomes flatter, so that the baby's head shape will be more beautiful when he grows up. So this is a very backward statement, without any scientific basis, but in real life, there are still many old people at home who will give their children a flat head.

It is understood that the custom of sleeping with flat head was first discovered by Manchu people. In Manchu national customs, babies are given extra hard pillows, or pillows filled with beans and the like, so that they can sleep on their backs for as long as possible, so that the back of their heads can be relatively flat in the first few months of their lives. With the Manchu people gradually entering the customs, the custom of giving babies flat heads gradually influenced some Han people, making some Han people start to let babies sleep flat heads in this way.

This custom has continued to this day, and careful netizens will find that northerners sleep in a flat head more often than southerners, which is caused by the influence of Manchu people on northerners at that time. Flat head can be said to have brought influence to a large part of families in China, even to generations. The reason why the old people continue the way of flat head is precisely because their previous generation did the same. At this time, it is very important to keep pace with the times and learn the scientific concept of parenting.

In fact, in many people's aesthetic concepts, the head shape of a flat head is actually not good-looking, and a flat head will make the head shape very strange. Besides, giving the baby a flat head is likely to lead to barking? Flat head syndrome? Symptoms of. Therefore, parents are advised to study more, raise their children scientifically, and don't excessively pursue the baby's head to sleep flat, so as not to bring some unnecessary influence to the baby's development.