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Secret of birth

It is often called the last drama. There are a few essential elements in the drama that you watch hard while you are "what the drama is like", where you can roughly guess the front and back situation at a glance. Birth secrets, leukemia, amnesia. Leukemia and amnesia are now slowly being expelled from the drama world, but the secret of birth still radiates its charm and appears as a staple of popular dramas. Dramas without the secret of birth are somewhat empty. What is the secret of birth... . Perhaps it is because the question mark of where I come from is deeply engraved in our DNA. We don't know why and when such a question came into being, but we humans will be the only animals that have fundamental questions about the secret of birth.


Millions of years ago, mankind, who came down from a tree and started walking on two feet, and started making fist axes and lighting fires with their free hands, began to think about my existence at some point in the evolutionary journey. Mankind, who entered the cave from the severe cold of the Ice Age tens of thousands of years ago, engraved a cave painting and a Venus statue that resembles you, where I came from? In addition, the effort to find the answer to the question of where is it going should have been looming.


Efforts to find serious questions and answers to the secret of birth continue to this day, and in order to complete the puzzle of human evolution, not only the difficult excavation work to find even more fossils of a single piece as if searching for a needle in a sand field, but also life from far away cosmic dust. Humanity's efforts to find the secret of birth, from space exploration to find the origin of the world, are like the protagonist of a drama wandering in search of their mother. Doesn't the Genesis of the Bible start with revealing the secret of birth?




The question of where do I come from naturally leads to where I am going. The fact that about 100,000 years ago the act of burying the dead with burial items began to appear is archaeological evidence that the awareness of the afterlife has already begun in earnest from the Paleolithic period.


Among the hundreds of definitions of culture, the definition of Korean anthropologist Cho Heung-yoon is a highlight. The taste and style of people living like people. Teacher Cho defined culture as taste and style. The starting point for a person to live like a person would be to find the secret of birth, where we came from.


In the olden days, there were no people living, but there is a song that starts like this. “It's not about living, but playing around and having fun ~ without thinking about who lived in the past.” It's amazing. Anyone who thinks about who lived in the old days will be able to think about who will live on this earth in the future. The starting point of a sustainable society is the awareness of the secret of birth.


The museum is where the records of the birth of mankind are kept. It's good to get excited about the stunts of evil girls in a drama that doesn't hesitate to roll down the stairs if you're unfavorable, but sometimes it's better to go to the museum and think of the Paleolithic people who endured the biting winter winds of the Ice Age. Isn't it a stylish cultural life? That would be why we should go to the museum. How about going to a nearby museum in search of the secret of birth rather than squatting while watching the drama this weekend, which is the best cold wave this winter.

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