Then someone became suspicious. Ancient people often recorded in books that someone was 7 feet tall. According to modern parlance, one foot is 30cm, so seven feet is 2m 1. So many people wonder, is the height of the ancients really that high, and the average height is only about 1.5m to 1.6m?
In recent years, according to the excavation of some historical relics, it is found that in some periods after the pre-Qin Dynasty or the Qin Dynasty, the length of a ruler made by them is about equal to 18 cm to 25 cm.
So these ancient height data are only average heights. There are many tall and outstanding talents in history. For example, Guan Yu in the Three Kingdoms period was recorded as nine feet long, which means that Guan Yu's actual height is about 1.8 to two meters. This was much higher than the average height at that time.
As we all know, resources were scarce in ancient times, and most people did not have enough to eat and wear warm clothes, so their health was naturally not as strong as that of modern people. And people as tall as Guan Yu are generally inherited. Just like us modern people, some people are more than two meters tall.
The average height of modern people in China is about 1.7 for men and 1.6 for women. Generally speaking, the average height of modern people in China is higher than that of ancient people 10 cm. According to the above analysis, the main reason is material resources. With the progress of society, people's living standards have gradually improved, leading to the average height of people has also gradually improved.