Why are British people called aristocrats?

The "blue blood aristocrat" originated from the Spanish royal family. The ancient Spaniards believed that blue blood flowed in the nobility. At that time, the aristocrats in ancient Castile claimed that their blood was the noblest and purest.

Nobles often proudly roll up their sleeves, revealing the blue veins on their white arms, which are called blue blood. This is very different from Moore with dark skin. Because they are not engaged in manual labor, their skin is as white as snow, which shows the fundamental difference between nobles and "laborers".

In fact, the real cause of "blue blood" is also closely related to the living habits of nobles, such as silverware. European nobles like to use all kinds of silverware, tableware, water containers, toilet utensils, religious ceremonies and so on. Because silver itself has the function of killing viruses and bacteria, it makes people's skin very white and delicate, which makes veins and blood vessels faintly visible and looks like blue blood.

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Stereotypes of British Five-Class Nobles

British five-class aristocrats were formed in13-15th century. It is different from the five-level aristocratic enfeoffment system in China in the early Zhou Dynasty. It was not established in a moment, but gradually formed after a long time and finally became customized.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/4th century, among the royal aristocrats above grade 5, there was a rather unique title-"Prince of Wales", which was monopolized by the Crown Prince. This title was first created by Prince Liveran of Wales, who once unified the whole country.

1282, King Edward I of England of England led an army and fleet to attack Wales, and Liveron was killed. Two years later, Wales was merged into England, and Edward added the title of Prince of Wales to the heir to the British throne in 130 1 year.

In the late Middle Ages, the political situation was turbulent and wars continued. In order to make nobles at all levels make contributions under the inspiration of chivalry and serve the king, feudal monarchs in Europe not only used aristocratic titles to confer titles on courtiers, but also creatively set up medals with different grades and titles to reward their meritorious service.

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