在泰国北部与缅甸边界处,有一个少数民族叫喀伦族(Karen)。按照他们的传统,女孩儿在五岁的时候就要在颈上、手臂和小腿上套上铜环。开始时是三个五个,十岁开始便每年在颈上多加一个,直到二十五岁为止。在众多铜环的作用下,女孩儿们的锁骨和肩骨不断下陷,颈部越来越长,颈部肌肉也变得十分脆弱,一旦离开铜环,她们的颈部就有断裂的危险。 At the northern Thai border with Myanmar there is a minority called Karen. According to their tradition, girls have to wear copper rings on their necks, arms and calves when they are five. The beginning of the three five, from the age of ten on the neck every year until the age of twenty-five. Under the action of numerous copper rings, the girls’ clavicles and shoulders continued to sag and the neck grew longer and the neck muscles became very fragile. Once left, the neck of the girl was at risk of breaking.