It is a disguised mechanism to encourage enthusiasm and motivation.
Primitive people used height to determine adulthood, with the average adult standing around 1.5 meters. As for age, many primitive people couldn't remember their own age. There was no concept of years, so some, like Ma Yue, couldn't even remember whether they were twelve or thirteen.
There is no division into months, and birthdays are even more impossible.
Primitive people's severely limited living conditions, lacking production tools and resources, meant their lifespans were extremely short. If you reached 30, you'd probably be considered old. Someone like the high priest, probably in his 30s, looked very old. They didn't have enough food, and the food wasn't nutritious, and there was no healthcare.
The high priest was a civilian, after all, so he still had memories of the past. He clearly remembered the cycle of snow and ice thirty times. This meant the high priest was at least thirty-four or thirty-five years old. After all, a child born so young wouldn't have many memories. Having clear memories starting at four or five years old was considered a good thing.
Ma Yue told him that this was the year. The year was a very important unit of time. As for the more detailed divisions of "months" and "days", it was too complicated, and Ma Yue couldn't distinguish them too clearly. However, the high priest quickly understood the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, with their obvious changes in weather.
The high priest understood, and the rest was up to him to try to instill the wisdom in the relatively intelligent people in the tribe. For example, the two priests and three chiefs would understand first, followed by most of the able-bodied men in the hunting team, and then the professional and technical personnel in the fourth tier...
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