And some primitive tribes, such as South Asia and Africa, artificially lengthen their earlobes through similar surgical methods.
This should also be common in ancient India.
Look up ethnology, in fact, you can find out where this kind of "ear-pulling" clothing is popular in history and now.
(2) It is said that this kind of clothing first appeared on the statue of Vishnu, the wife of the Hindu god Shiva, and was later absorbed by the later Buddhist statues, which also became an important feature of Buddhist modeling.
In a way, it was actually the earliest people who created the Hindu Vishnu model. According to their looks, they moved their customs-wearing big earrings and pulling their earlobes extremely long-into idol models and then infiltrated Buddhism.
Finally, this influence inexplicably entered the Far East and participated in the construction of people's own image.
The concept of attaching importance to "ears and shoulders" in the Chinese world has gradually become the mainstream, but in a very late era, Buddhism almost reached the stage of going to the bottom folk in Chinese.
During the Wei, Jin and Tang Dynasties, when Buddhism was first introduced into the Han Dynasty, the road to the East was unimpeded, and a large number of residents in North India and even Central Asia lived in the Han Dynasty. The huge earlobe caused by heavy earrings is at most a strange custom. Although the Buddha statue is also like this, it is far from being "lucky".
However, after the Song Dynasty, the inland traffic with the hinterland of Central Asia was cut off, and the residents of North India with big ears no longer had the opportunity to show off in the streets of Han people, and people began to feel strange about the "big earlobe". (3) Until the Mongols and the Qing Dynasty ruled the Han Dynasty, the upper-class princes gradually accepted the Buddhist concept of "acting by people", the Tibetan spokesperson of North Indian Buddhism, dressed themselves as adult buddhas, and also accepted the concept of "two ears and two shoulders".
However, due to the lack of practical observation experience and physiological knowledge, they really believe that ears can grow to shoulders.
-you can see it from the Buddha statues of various materials.
The big earlobe of the Buddha statues before Yuan Dynasty (including the Tibetan style until now) is hollow, showing the effect that the skin tissue is stretched.
After the Ming and Qing Dynasties (especially the Buddha statues made in the Han Dynasty), the huge earlobes were all solid, and the most obvious one was the future Buddha Maitreya.
This shows that the physical principle of earlobe formation has been blurred.
With this puzzle, the physiognomy theory of "double earlobes and shoulders" finally appeared in Zhang Hui's novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of it, the clay sculpture Buddha looks like a statue of a long earlobe, but it actually comes from Vishnu, a South Asian tribe-Buddhism!