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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Chinese bellybuttons aren't "closed"?
It was sweltering hot yesterday but my girlfriend insisted on sleeping with the bed sheets covering her stomach. Only her stomach.
When I asked her why she said it was because Chinese bellybuttons weren't "closed" or "sealed" or whatever, and that it was therefore easier for Chinese people to get sick if they didn't cover up that part of their body.
Anyone ever heard of this before?
11 years 40 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
No but it doesn't surprise me. They believe in the most unrational things. most belly buttons are inies, but i've seen some outies
I know they always cover you with a towel, sheet or blanket when you sleep even in summer. I always tell them not to do it as I am fine but like many things what I think is ignored. Often as I am just dozing off it wakes me up as they place the sheet. Your explanation might be the reason as I just get told that it is no good sleeping without the cover.
danielmarino:
They??? they who??? I am terrified to find people covering me in my sleep now.
Ahhhhh. That explains why there are so many wet bellies...
This is how Chinese men can drink so much baijiu... it all leaks out their bellybutton.
Cheap restaurants even resell the baijiu that leaks out.