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Hi

Everyone

And welcome back to one of your favorite segments

Also that's why

原来如此

Hi alland

Hi luluu

Hi everyone

So in this segment allland

And i will get to the bottom of some of the common behaviors customs in western culture or cultures in general and explain to you the origins of these customs

Yeah

So today we're going to look at probably more of western gegeure ure crossing our hearts

Oh

Do you mean like when people say cross my heart and hope to die

Yes

I often wonder that

Why would someone say crossing my heart in hope to die

That doesn't sound very obspicious

So let's start first of all why we cross our hearts

So we actually do a gesture

We make across over our heart

And this is a gesture to show

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That we are making a serious promise

Or we are telling the truth is not a bit similar to one of the customs

That we talked about before which is crossing our fingers

Yeah

Now it comes from the question sigsign of cross ss 就是字字架个

Yeah

No litererally will dw ddraw use your finger draw like a cross on your chest

Yeah

Now crossing fingers is a sign of luck

It's like

It's a way wishing good luck

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But when we cross our hearts

It's a way to show that we're making a promise or we are tetting the truth

Um

Now the reason

Why we do it over our heart is because traditionally the heart is seen as the centre of emotion and honesty

We

We don't cross our

Our brain

对 No

Which that means something else

But yeah

I think in chinese is the same a lot of it

When

When you use head or brains

We would say 我心里觉得怎么样

What

内心深处

Yes

So in english

It's the same out you broke my heart

It's about the heart not the brains

Yes 嗯

So cross my heart

This is where my thoughts are

This is where my emotions are

Yeah So

So we have always kind of don't making promises or making an oaf to religion or christianity in particular

But why would people say cross my heart and hohope to die

Well

It's just a way of making the promise

More dramatic

More believable

Is it like if i'm not telling the truth

Then let god like smile me

Exactly ok let me die

You know ah so it's used by children and young people

It's exaggerated

It's like i swear by my life

Yeah

就是发毒誓那种感觉

Or i swear on my life

Oh

I swear on my life yeah

Um

Or i swear on my mother's life

Yeah

In chinese

We call it 都市

It's like an extreme oath

Yeah

But i really don't like that especially not when you trying to use like your family members life well do with your own oolook is what they would do

Is they would say i swear on my klife life

Did you miss pronounce that no

是的 好的

It's a way of sort of like tricking people

Oh

These coming kids

It's like if you say quickly enough

You say i say well well

My mother's knife and my mother's knife

Knife yeah

Okk Um Um

So it doesn't have to

To a life

Life yeah

And people probably wouldn't notice that no

That sounds like they're about to tell a life

Exactly that's a whole point

Um no

对

We still have this tradition

So for example

When we make an off

Which is like a formal promise when we go to court

For example

We might make hand off on the bible

Put your hand on the bible yeah

Does that happen in british court

As well well does american thing

Oh Okay

It does i didn't realize your guys

You're so religious

Well it's traditional

And if you're not question

Then you put your hand on the holy book of your religion

Or you don't have a religion

Then you don't ok right

You have to make a promise

That you're going to tell the truth

Yeah

But you don't have to put your hand on a bible

Yeah

You probably have watched those scenario in tv shows or movies

Where in english speaking countries when they go into the court

Especially if they need to speak either as witness or as some other people to always fatan oath to show a fghting 宣誓

And they a lot of the times

They put their hand on a bible to show deep commitment and promise

Yes

Or you make a solumn promise

A solum promise

Like a very very serious promise

Yeah

So when did this whole crossed my heart and hope to die

It's seemingly very childish saying appear

When did it appear

It's quite old became in the nineteen century

Ah was it invented by children probably um

But again

This is not just about crossing your heart

There are lots of different phrases that we use to describe the same my idea so for example hand on my heart

Hand on my heart

Yeah

That's an another way of saying

I'm telling the truth so for example hand on my heart

I'm telling the truth so i'm being honest with you

So you would do that

And put your hand on your left chest yes

Okay

And you can also say i speak from the heart

I speak from the heart

If you give me a situation

I know we talked about it theoretically

But give me a situation

Let's play out a scenario

Where this cross my heart and hope to die is used okay

I then i swear

I didn't take your pen

Cross my heart

Hope to die

It was

You wasn't

It wasn't

Hand on my heart

I'm having the truth

I swear on my life

That i did not take your pen

Repeat that again let not here it again not niyou

You're say i swear on my life

You did take your pen

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By the way

In the uk or in english speaking world do people take this very seriously

Because in china we generally would take this very seriously

Because we don't want to bring bad lock to us

We don't want us to get into any trouble or any disaster

Because we say we cursed ourselves

为什么叫要独

So i would say kind of from a rational perspective shouldn't be make much difference

But 没有

I would say most people would feel very uncomfortable breaking this type of promise

Because we are still superstishes to some extent

Exactly you don't want to really put that sort of really extreme curse on yourself

Yeah

Because it's like we're tempting fate

Well theyve actually done experiments for example with a fis or people who say they're not superstishous in the lilighters

Yethey actually give them the photos of the loved ones like family members example

And they ask them to kind of like stab the picture

They don't want to

They don't want to

And they know rationalally it's just a piece of paper

It's just a picture

It's not then

But there's still that little bit inside them

That would never feel comfortable doing that

This is why i don't understand

Why people would swear on their loved one's lives

Yeah

Unless they really are not their loved ones

Yeah

I would swear you know what cross my heart and hope their my enees die what

No

I don't think that's really

That's sensitive promise

Let's be honest

I swear on my enemy's life okay

Now we're going to look look dark

No So yeah

I think in this

We don't say exactly the same

When we don't make a cross sign

Because we don't have that religious background

But i think the concept is the same

It's basically an extreme promise

And it's a very traumatic way to deliver it

Yeah

Um do you ever say that cause my heart

Yeah

I do sometimes

But we usually use it as like a playful way

You know we don't use it like serious situation

Yeah

When we wna be a bit playful cross my heart

Yeah Yeah

Because it also sounds a bit childdish

It is a bit childish

Sometimes you do see this not just between children

But also between parents and children yeah and the kids

Us are you promise

Cross my heart exactly uh right and on note te 're going to wrap up this episode

If you have anything to request any other topics

You want us to talk about in the segment or in any other segments

Let us know in the comment section

So until next time well see next time bye bye

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