Why did women in ancient times bind their feet, and what are the reasons?

The reason why women bound their feet in ancient times was because they thought that small feet were a kind of beauty, but they were a deformed aesthetic. There is also the freedom to move that restricts women, and they do not show their heads at will.

First, for the sake of good looks, the ancients thought that such feet were good-looking. Second, women's feet will attract suspicion and will not be able to get married, so women must bind their feet. Thirdly, in order for women to give birth to better offspring, so that the daughters of the next generation will also have very small feet.

Personally, I think it's for the sake of beauty, after all, small feet are more beautiful than big feet, and the other is to restrain women's freedom.

Because in ancient times, people thought that small feet were very beautiful and were proud of them. The smaller the feet, the better they look.

In fact, not all ancient people liked the three-inch golden lotus, although it was said that this bad habit existed before the Qing Dynasty, but it was not a common phenomenon. In a tomb before the Qing Dynasty, it can be seen that only a relatively small number of noble ladies would bind their feet, while the vast majority of working women would not do so. Until the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, women of all classes, whether rich or poor, began to bind their feet, and even some ethnic minorities also had this custom.

I think the reason why there is such an existence is because in ancient times, men had a sick aesthetic, and they all liked the three-inch golden lotus very much. At that time, it was emphasized that women were virtuous if they were not talented, so most of the women were ignorant and ignorant, and their husbands liked this, so they obeyed them. Moreover, once a woman binds her feet, it is more difficult to even walk, let alone do some other things, she will need to rely on her husband in all aspects of life, and there is no way to live independently, so their dependence is a great satisfaction for men.

In fact, foot binding is really a kind of restraint on women in feudal society, and it is also an obvious manifestation of male superiority and inferiority. I think this is what masculinism is doing, and it is a kind of harm to women, and it is even more insulting. This kind of bad habit could not have arisen for no reason, in the feudal society, the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women made women stand in a disadvantaged position, so they just thought about how to please men.

In that era, men dominated the fate of women, so they did not hesitate to use their own means to create an aesthetic object they liked. Fortunately, we are living in a new society, and now men and women are equal, and we can not do such cruel things, otherwise, I really can't imagine what kind of experience it is to be in the new China of the 21st century.