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Why did the Vietnamese, Japanese, and Chinese blacken their teeth for centuries? How did the custom form?
The practice of dental modification is hardly new (a certain African tribe would file their teeth into points and hide away their children, saying that they ate the babes, to ward off invaders, and recent findings reflect that Vikings filed and darkened bars into their teeth to signify social standing/occupation). In the eastern Asain areas where the practice was once common, was it purely aesthetic, like footbinding? Was it thought to ward against rot, or did it have historical significance? Religious?
The story I heard while studying Japanese in college was this:
During the Heian period, there was a court lady who was the most beautiful woman ever seen. She was complimented on her beauty, but her modesty was as great as her beauty, and she didn't wish to seem proud or vain. So she blackened her teeth to look uglier.
However, the purity and unselfishness of her act made her a beautiful person through and through, so everyone still admired her. Later other women tried to imitate and emulate this modesty by also blackening their teeth, and it became the fashion.
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