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tradition-minded Japanese and Chinese may be either deeply shocked or hilariously amused when they see a Western husband and wife kiss in public.
About a hundred years ago, when Chinese first began translating Western novels into their own language, they had to invent a special character to describe kissing.
Experts in culture traits say kissing was thought up in Europe, and that it is civilized since semi-civilized people don’t.
Kissing and whatever has gone with it has indelibly marked history. Antony and Cleopatra, by way of William Shakespeare, viewed the decline of Egypt and Rome admitting: “We have kiss’d away Kingdoms and provinces.’’
And to ever-alert Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Lipstick Invented
In olden days, social kissing was so big practitioners took to perfuming their lips, thus starting the cosmetic industry. The invention of lipstick helped bring on the untraceable cheek-to-cheek encounter.
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