Apparently this is a map showing cannibalism from ancient China through to today. Obviously that context is intentionally left out of the post unless you read Chinese which on a primarily Anglo/English speaking site is just malicious at best and down right racist at worst.
Interestingly there is no mention of the fact that at a time when China didn’t do this, the Belgians were cutting the limbs of workers for failing to hit their rubber quotas.
I hate reddit.
machine translated:
The map shows the areas where cannibalism has occurred since the Qin and Han dynasties, mainly as a result of famine, siege by war and predation by armed exiles. Other scattered areas are mainly the result of specific historical events.
So, it’s actually pretty small number for a country that suffered through a famine literally every single year for thousands of years until communists put an end to the famines.
Not to mention huge wars every now and then, some of the bloodiest wars in human history occured there. Until communists stopped that too.
it’s hard to tell from this map that has no scale. is it 1 area = 1 person eaten? all this tells you is that there was cannibalism there at some point. that’s anywhere from 1 cannibalism to infinity cannibalism
Small dots are more probably single cases and the red areas are where it occured on bigger scale. Note it’s apparently agregation from over 2000 years.
Plus – not to sound lib, but what were a whole lot of Europeans doing 2000 years ago? As a Y*nkee with a German surname, I can pretty confidently say that a whole lot of my ancestors were slaughtering each other with spears and clubs back then, not Building Civilization & Social Democracy.
Well Chinese were also killing eachother in great numbers back then, but somehow they never managed to knock themselves into the dark ages despite internal strife was intense and migrations were no less than in Europe (or maybe even greater).
Actually, they did had something of a semi official confederacy during Spring and Autumn which was to ensure their internal feuds won’t escalate into all out annihilation war, and that sentiment in this or that form lasted until Qin managed to unite the country, then it was made obsolete by the idea of unified empire.
Northern Europe back then was wilderness sparsely populated by tribals.