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What does xianggangjiao mean? The origin of xianggangjiao

4hw.org: we usually say that a person's foot stink is called xianggangjiao, which has become an indelible label in Hong Kong. Hong Kong foot stink is not groundless. Do you know the origin of xianggangjiao?

The real name of xianggangjiao is tinea pedis, which is not limited to Hong Kong or certain ethnic groups. After the British occupation of Hong Kong, they sent troops to Hong Kong every year to carry out defense tasks. In the summer of one year, although their troops had arrived in Hong Kong, they were unable to enter the barracks immediately for some reasons, so the officers and soldiers on board had to stay in the airtight cabin.

As the summer in Hong Kong is very hot, especially on the ship. A few days later, some soldiers who wear boots all day have a lot of small blisters on their feet. Some of them are more swollen and swollen. They are extremely itchy. Because European doctors have not seen this strange disease, they think it is an epidemic in Hong Kong, so they call it xianggangjiao. Later, when Taiwan accepted Western medicine, another inadvertently translated xianggangjiao, which would cause everyone to sing "xianggangjiao, xianggangjiao, itchy and itchy", but could not understand the strange appearance of tinea pedis!

In fact, athlete's foot is mainly caused by athlete's foot fungus, which likes to live in a humid and warm environment, while British soldiers living in high latitude are not easy to be infected in Europe, while Hong Kong's low latitude and humid and sultry are easy to be infected. Besides soldiers, athletes are also easy to suffer from this foot disease, so it is also called athlete's foot.

Xianggangjiao is a kind of beriberi, which is called "tinea pedis" in medicine. It is the highest incidence of superficial mycosis and a chronic infectious skin disease caused by superficial pathogenic fungi infecting the foot skin. It is named for its high incidence in Hong Kong.

Why is xianggangjiao? It must be pushed back to the Opium War when the British Army accepted Hong Kong. These soldiers were used to living in dry Britain and came to the hot and humid Hong Kong. Everyone's feet were the same. Later, when Taiwan accepted Western medicine, another inadvertently translated xianggangjiao, which would cause everyone to sing "xianggangjiao, xianggangjiao, itchy and itchy", but could not understand the strange appearance of tinea pedis.