Why do some people have dimples?

When we smile, some people have dimples which most people don’t have. Most people with dimples are very cute and loved by their elders. They also have pear-shaped dimples that are similar to dimples. So why do some people have dimples?

The formation of dimples

Dimples are formed by the movement of muscles just beneath the skin. Most of the muscles in the human body are firmly attached to the bones by tendon fibers, such as the chest muscles and lower limb muscles. The facial expression muscles are an exception. They are directly attached to the facial skin. When the facial expression muscles contract, they will affect the facial skin, causing various wrinkles to appear on the face, producing expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. The two dimples on a smiling face are formed by the relative movement of the facial skin and facial expression muscles such as the buccinator muscles and zygomatic muscles.

Whether you can have dimples depends on the development of your facial muscles. People whose zygomatic muscles are not so plump and who have less subcutaneous fat on their faces generally do not have dimples when they smile. In fact, dimples can also be created through surgery.

For some people, dimples are dominant. Dominant inheritance means that as long as there is one dominant gene in a pair of genes, the determined trait will be expressed, even without being paired. For example, widow's peak and double eyelids are dominant inheritance. In fact, it can also be done later through surgery.

The 10 most common traits controlled by single genes in humans are: having earlobes or not having earlobes; rolling the tongue or not being able to roll it; having a widow's peak or not having a widow's peak at the hairline; the thumb being able to bend back toward the back or not being able to bend back toward the back; the index finger being longer than the ring finger or being shorter than the ring finger; the right thumb being on top or the left thumb being on top when the hands are chimeric; double eyelids or single eyelids; having dimples or not having dimples; normal feet or flat feet; normal color vision or color blindness; albinism or normal skin.

Legend of the origin of dimples

According to legend, after death, people pass through the gates of hell and go to the Yellow Springs Road, where there are many flowers but no leaves blooming on the road. The flowers and leaves will never see each other again, and they will miss each other forever. At the end of the road there is a river called Wangchuan River, and there is a Naihe Bridge on the river. There was a woman named Meng Po waiting there, handing a bowl of Meng Po soup to every passerby. Anyone who drank the Meng Po soup would forget all the ties of this life and enter the six realms without any worries, either as an immortal, a human, or an animal.

Meng Po soup is also known as the love water. Once you drink it, you will forget your past and present lives. All the love, hate, and vengeance of a lifetime, all the ups and downs, gains and losses, are all forgotten completely with this bowl of Meng Po soup. The people you care about in this life and the people you hate in this life will not recognize each other in the next life.

However, there were some people who were unwilling to drink Meng Po soup for various reasons, and Meng Po had no choice but to agree to them. But there was a mark on these people, and that mark was dimples on their faces. Such a person must jump into the Forgetful River, suffer the torture of being drowned and burned by fire, and wait for thousands of years before being reincarnated. After reincarnation, he will carry the memory of the previous life and the dimple to look for his lover in the previous life.

So friends, please cherish the person with dimples on his or her face, no matter if he or she is a relative or friend, because he or she may be your lover in the previous life, who has been waiting for thousands of years to find the person with unfinished love in the previous life and to fulfill the unfulfilled wishes in the previous life. Please never hurt him or her, because not everyone has the courage to jump into the Forgetful River and wait for thousands of years in agony.

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