真正的"矮人村"Dwarf-village

 

  A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people.

  Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins (129.5 cm) tall ─ and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents.
  
  Now the group has turned itself into a tourist attraction by building mushroom houses and living and dressing like fairy tale characters.

“As small people we are used to being pushed around and exploited by big people. But here there aren’t any big people and everything we do is for us,” said spokesman Fu Tien. (Metro)
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    鳴陽，地處四川資中縣東南約六十公里處的一個偏僻山村，自三十年代村裏接連“矮人輩出”以來，它不再叫“鳴陽”，而被周圍鄰村的人們習慣地稱之為“矮人村”。“矮人村”在六十年代約有一百二十人，全村男女無論中年、老年都幾乎身高八十公分左右，有的竟然只有四十公分高，最高者也不足一米，只有極個別身高接近正常人。這些矮人白天生產，晚上參加義務勞動，在當時，“矮人村”是名聲在外的先進隊。他們還建立了宣傳隊，自編自演了許多文藝節目，除了在田間地頭進行演出，遇有外村外地人參觀，這些矮人的節目也最受歡迎。

    其實，村民小的時候生長發育完全正常，奇怪的是在五至六歲間卻永久地停止了生長。是什麼原因呢？省、市、縣有關水文、地礦檢驗部門曾多次專門對罕見的“矮人村”飲用水質作了深入的檢查化驗，曾證實水質中鈣、磷等各種微量元素奇缺，與“矮人村”村民永久長不高有一定的聯繫。上級有關部門還對該村土質及村民幾代人生存繁衍狀況作了深入的查訪，但目前仍未找出最終答案。




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