Why is there a group of people called Bajau on the earth?

This group of people mainly roam the various waters of the Malay Archipelago and make a living from fishing all year round, they are the "Bajau people", because they live on the sea, so some people call them "the last nomads on the sea".

Many people are very puzzled why the Bajau people never live on land. It's hard to be adrift in the ocean. Many people may have heard the answer to this question for a long time, and the common saying among the people is:

A thousand years ago, the princess of a kingdom in the Malay Peninsula accidentally fell into the sea and was eventually washed away by the sea. The king loved his daughter so much that he sent a large number of men to the sea to look for her, and the king ordered them to find the princess, and if they could not find it, they would never return.

These people have been looking for a long time in the ocean, but there is no princess in the vast sea. Because of the king's order, these people did not dare to return to the land, so they could only choose to settle on the sea, and finally became stateless "Bajau people".

Whether this story is true or false is unknown, but it is clear that the Bajau have been adrift on the ocean for thousands of years. Many people are curious, after thousands of years, will the body of the Bajau people evolve to adapt to life in the ocean? There are even some who think that they may evolve into mermaids in the future.

Surviving for a long time in different environments, certain parts of the body do change in order to adapt to the environment. For example, some genes in the human body that live in Tibetan areas all year round have changed, so they can adapt to the high altitude and lack of oxygen.

Because the Bajau people live on the ocean all year round, their spleen has also changed. Some researchers compared the spleens of the Bajau people with those of ordinary residents, and found that the spleens of the Bajau people were significantly larger, and they were 50% larger.

The reason for this difference is that the Bajau people have lived in the sea for a long timeThey often dive into the sea to catch fish, and long-term diving not only affects the lungs, but also the spleen becomes larger in order to dive for a longer time.

At present, the most obvious change in the Bajau people is the spleenBecause of the large spleen, most Bajau people can stay underwater for more than 5 minutes. However, they do not evolve unique fins, and the Bajau people choose to dive in shallow waters, where they need to swim and walk underwater, and if they appear, they will affect their activities.

The Bajau are a small ethnic group in Southeast Asia, living mainly in the waters between the present-day Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, and live by diving into the sea to fish, they are called "sea gypsies", and this ethnic group of about 6,000 people is about 6,000 people. Unlike other peoples who rely on the sea to eat the sea, the Bajau people have lived on the sea for centuries and rarely set foot on land, only when they exchange some basic necessities such as water and rice for fish and lobsters they catch, and many have never been on land in their lives.

This is an ethnic group living in Southeast Asia, because they generally live in the sea, they all live by fishing, and have little contact with the outside world, so there will be a group of "Bajau".

This is because this ethnic group does not have its own national territory, and they can only live on water all their lives.

Long-term marine diving operations have caused some fishermen to suffer from decompression sickness.

At the same time, because the Bajau are located on the borders between countries, the Bajau people have been in conflict with countries with defined borders for decades. In order to avoid disputes and protect maritime resources, some neighboring countries** forced them to settle ashore. In the Torosiaje region, Indonesia** has been pressuring the Bajau people to build stilted houses in the shallow waters near the shore, or even to let them go directly to the shore and live in the villages.

This has led to fewer and fewer Bajau people living on traditional "lepa-lepa" boats.

Today, the number of Bajau people living at sea is decreasing.

The Bajau people mean the people of the sea.

The Bajau people are a small-scale ethnic group in Southeast Asia known as the "sea gypsies", and are also considered to be the last marine nomads in the world, with only more than 6 people in the whole race. Regarding the origin of Bajau, it is also necessary to talk about the understanding of foreign people. The Bajau people are often considered a category of the Sama.

In Malay, sāna mainly refers to a person who engages in fishing, while bajau means "people of the sea". In the past, it was customary to call the Sama people who lived on the shore "Sama", and the Sama people who lived on boats and herded on the sea were collectively called "Bajau", and gradually the Bajau people also accepted this name.

It took countless years of changes in world history to develop into today's civilized society, and human beings have evolved from ancient apes to modern humans. It can be said that modern people are people who keep up with the times and are constantly developing and progressing. Human beings live together, help each other, take care of each other, and when there are more people living together, they form tribes and eventually develop into countries.

Almost everyone in the world has a nationality, but the Bajau people are stateless, they are a group of stateless people.

Perhaps the ancestors of the Bajau people were a group of refugees who fled to the sea, lived together and formed a tribe, and because they could not return to their original country, they had to live by the sea. Their life can be said to be a paradise life, and few people even know about the existence of the Bajau people. These Bajau people live an isolated life, have no communication with modern and contemporary people, they have no mobile phones, no computers and other products of the new era in their lives, they live the most primitive life on the sea.

The Bajau people have lived in the sea for a long time, and even are inseparable from the sea, the sea not only nourishes them, but also threatens their lives at all times, in order to be able to better adapt to the sea life, the Bajau people have to puncture their eardrums. Because only in this way is it convenient to move in the sea and hunt in the sea. In addition, the Bajau people did not have the use of civilized tools in their sea life, and their methods of hunting for food were the most primitive, but the long-term fishing and sea life made them first-class fishing masters.

By poking their eardrums to adapt to the sea environment, the Bajau people can not only get natural food supplements from the sea, but also improve their ability to live in the sea.

However, the Bajau people are inseparable from the sea, their lives are directly linked to the sea, and all aspects are inseparable from the sea. Maybe it's because I don't want to break through the current pattern, maybe it's because I'm used to this way of life and don't want to leave the sea to live on land. Although the hearts of the Bajau people may want to go out of the sea and go to the land, just like the children in the mountains want to go to the sea, the Bajau people also know that they may not be able to go out of the sea for the rest of their lives, because they can no longer keep up with the pace of the times on land, and perhaps for them, the sea is already an inseparable part of their lives.

Bajau children don't learn algebra or science, but learn to catch octopuses and lobsters from an early age in a netted bag and rowing a unique hand-made canoe. It is said that because they live at sea all year round, children's eyesight is better under the water. Just as many people get seasick when they go out to sea, people here will get "seasick" as soon as they set foot on the land.

The origin of the Bajau ethnic group is from the Philippines. It is said that a long time ago, the princess of a state of the Bajau tribe was washed away in a flood. So his father sent for him. These people could not find the princess and had to stay by the sea. And these people became the ancestors of the Bajau people.

I don't think anyone knows who their ancestors were, but they originated from the Royal Guard.

The traditional fishing boat of the Bajau people is called "lepa-lepa", with a narrow hull and a high bow, which is generally 5 meters long and wide.

The Bajau people wake up early every morning to start the day's "sailing" and fishing, while the children dive in the sea around the boat.

The Bajau people are masters of free-diving, diving to depths of 30 meters or more to catch deep-sea fish and look for pearls and sea cucumbers. Sea cucumber is not only a delicacy of the Bajau people, but also a treasure that the Bajau people have peddled to the outside world for centuries. When diving, they wear hand-carved wooden goggles with glass lenses and hold fishing forks made from waste materials on board.

In order to increase the number and success rate of catching fish and shrimp, the Bajau people, who used to fish with traditional fishing gear, began to try to make homemade earth gunpowder and detonate it in the sea for fishing. In addition, they learned how to use cyanide to extend the survival time of fish to meet the increasing demand for live fish in seafood restaurants in Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.

Since diving is a daily activity, the Bajau people deliberately puncture their eardrums at an early age to reduce the pain caused by water pressure during diving. But in their later years, the Bajau people also became hearing poor.

Bajau means "people of the sea" in Indonesian, and this ancient maritime nomad is often compared to "the gypsies of the sea". Legend has it that a long time ago, the princess of Johor, Malaysia, was washed away in a flood, and her father, immersed in the grief of losing his daughter, sent his subordinates to the sea to look for her, and ordered them to find the princess before returning. Later, these people who were ordered to look for the princess, because they could not find the princess, they had to stay by the sea, and these people became the ancestors of the Bajau people.

Over time, generations of Bajau people have adapted to the marine environment.