When did women s foot binding begin? Why?

Although some people have suggested that foot binding originated in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, foot binding after foot injury and wrapping foot into a "three-inch golden lotus" and becoming disabled are completely different things.

After research, foot binding became a folk bad habit originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty also made a special poem "Bodhisattva Man", praising the culture of foot binding: "Tu Xiang does not cherish the lotus to take steps, and the long sorrow Luo socks Ling Bo goes to ......."It should be difficult to say delicately, and it must be seen from the palm of your hand. ”

Later, Emperor Shunzhi, Emperor Kangxi, and Sun Yat-sen all explicitly forbade women to bind their feet, but the bad habit of binding feet still persisted.

It was not until later that people's preference for European and American women's high heels gradually replaced the preference for foot binding, and the bad habit of foot binding was abolished.

But high heels can also cause damage to women's feet, so to speak, "laughing at fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps".

Chinese women's foot wrapping began at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the three-inch golden lotus wrapping method was after the Ming Dynasty.

I think it is probably a vice propagated by the ruling class in order to make the broad masses of the people lose the ability to resist and struggle!!

Women's foot binding first began in 969-975 AD during the reign of Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and one of the queens of Li was ingenious, using silk to wrap her feet into a crescent moon shape and dance on the golden lotus to please the Son of Heaven. Later, this custom gradually spread to the common people, and women regarded foot binding as beauty. At that time, the feudal literati and scholars had a morbid aesthetic, regarded women as playthings, and it became a habit to play with women's small feet.

In addition, in ancient times, there was a traditional custom of "men are superior to women" in a patriarchal society, and women would go out less when they were unable to move after binding their feet, so foot binding has also become an important way to restrain women.

In ancient times, after the women's feet were bound, people called them "three-inch golden lotus". This little foot covered with strips of cloth became the most private part of the body, and it was reserved for his own man. At that time, small feet were never to be seen or touched by other men.

If she is accidentally touched, this woman will be regarded as the greatest shame in her life.

Binding small feet first began during the reign of Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty in 969-975 AD, and some people believe that as early as the Warring States Period in 770-476 BC, binding small feet appeared, and perhaps even earlier can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty. In short, the custom of feudal society has a long history, and it has killed countless Chinese women for thousands of years. It can be said that binding small feet is one of the most prominent manifestations of "male superiority and female inferiority" under the patriarchal tradition.

The reason why ancient women were required to bind their feet was entirely because of some deformed aesthetics in ancient times. Although foot binding was not explicitly mandatory, under the social atmosphere at that time, it was the consensus of every household that women's foot binding was beautiful. This was extremely harmful to the women of the time.

Foot binding is the practice of wrapping a woman's foot to limit its growth. Women's feet become progressively shorter and deformed, and they inevitably suffer great pain for a long time in the process. Think about it, when you wear a pair of shoes that are too small for your feet, it can be painful to walk even for a while longer.

The pain of foot binding is unimaginable from childhood to adulthood and even a lifetime, so it is no exaggeration to say that foot binding is inhumane torture.

In addition to being small and pointed, the tied feet should be arched, it is said that three inches are the most beautiful, called golden lotus, four inches are slightly worse, called silver lotus, and five inches are iron lotus. From the age of four or five, girls begin to bind their feet, sometimes in the wrong way, leading to infections or lifelong disabilities.

During the May Fourth New Culture Movement, famous literati such as Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun criticized this bad habit, and a new woman of the era was born, gave up this self-harming behavior, and finally gradually disappeared.

However, the timing of foot binding is not very early, and the exact time of its appearance is still controversial. Some believe that it was invented by Li Yu, the empress of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Yes, it was Li Yu, the ruler of the conquered country, who wrote "how much sorrow you can feel, like a clear spring flowing eastward".

In the Yuan Dynasty, ethnic groups other than the Han basically did not bind their feet. In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, rulers began to praise small feet, so much so that foot binding was no longer a shame. The custom of foot binding was more prevalent in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xianzhong captured women's small feet in Sichuan and piled them up into a mountain called "Golden Lotus Peak". It can be seen that foot binding was once very popular in Sichuan.

In the Qing Dynasty, Manchu women regarded "heavenly feet" as beautiful, and the rulers despised the Han people's practice of tying small feet. Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty issued a decree prohibiting women from "tying their hair and feet." Those who refused to obey continued to bind their feet, and the husband or father was sentenced to 80 sticks and 3,000 miles of exile, but with little effect.

The purpose of binding women's feet is to imprison them, to oppress them physically and mentally, and if they don't, they will run around.

In order to restrict women's travel, in order to let women stay at home and not go out, so they will wrap their feet. If you don't wrap your feet, then you will be ridiculed by other women and despised by other families.

I think it's a custom that foot binding is to make the feet look good, and it will make the feet small, and if you don't wrap your feet, you will be pulled out and killed.

Chinese women have a history of binding their feet for more than 1,000 years.

Foot binding is a bad habit in ancient China. It is a cloth that wraps a woman's feet tightly to make them deformed. Generally female, from.

From the age of four or five, the foot binding begins, and the cloth belt is untied after the adult skeleton is set, and there are also lifelong wrappers. Foot binding began in the late Northern Song Dynasty and arose in the Southern Song Dynasty. The foot binding of the Yuan Dynasty continued to develop in the direction of slenderness.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, foot binding entered its heyday. The trend of foot binding has spread to women from all walks of life, whether rich or poor, they all bind their feet, but there are not a few who do not bind their feet.

After the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, Sun Yat-sen officially ordered a ban on foot binding. During the May Fourth Movement, foot binding became the target of various revolutionary movements and radicals, and Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and others wrote articles denouncing the destruction and oppression of women by foot binding. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the vice of foot binding was completely abolished, and Chinese women were completely liberated.

The Manchu rulers entered the Central Plains, and the women of the Eight Banners began not to bind their feet, and then they also had the habit of binding their feet, and their method of binding their feet was different from the "three-inch golden lotus", but to wrap their feet to "be both thin and straight, thin and as sharp as a blade, hence the name 'knife strip'." "Later, although it was banned many times, it intensified. It is precisely because of this that the women's foot binding of the women's defense clan can be said to have reached the peak in the Qing Dynasty.