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What Are Some Bizarre Cultural Traditions of Ancient Egypt?

古埃及有哪些奇葩的文化传统？

获得964好评的回答@Daniel Taj-Akoben Oliver

The ancient Egyptians had the bizarre habit of drawing and painting themselves like dark-skinned Africans.

古埃及人有一个奇葩的习惯，就是把他们自己画得像黑皮肤的非洲人。

获得46.4k 好评的回答@Amira Hosny Ibrahim

Sacrificing beautiful girls by throwing them into the Nile.

将漂亮的女孩子投入尼罗河来进行献祭。

获得2.5k好评的回答@James Saker

The living shared food with the dead.

活人与死人共享食物。

获得4.5k好评的回答@Robert Johnston

An Egyptian tradition that is carried on day is that of "Sham sl Nassim" or the  first day of tian families go and have a picnic by the Nile where they eat clouded hard boiled eggs in bread and dried fish, often Nile perch.

一项埃及传统发展至今，那就是春天的第一天。埃及家庭出外在尼罗河畔进行野炊，通常他们吃黑乎乎的夹着煮老的鸡蛋的面包以及鱼干，通常是尼罗河的鲈鱼。

获得2.9k好评的回答@Ido Reif, M.A.

Both men and women kept their hair shaved, and wore wigs on their bald heads.

男人和女人都把头发剃光，然后戴上假发。

获得336K好评的回答@Lara Novakov

Masturbating into the Nile river.

在尼罗河里进行XXXX。

This was both a cultural and religious practice.

这是一项文化和宗教活动。

Ancient Egyptians considered masturbation to be extremely important and many of them thought that when a God masturbates, it is some kind of…magic? Some even thought that the Nile river was created that way.

古埃及人认为XXXX是极其重要的，并且他们当中许多人都认为一位神的XXXX可以算是一项奇迹。甚至有些人还认为尼罗河就是由XXXX创造而成。（英语君表示三观已飞）

（翻译：苏梨）