Who invented the three inch golden lotus and when did the three inch golden lotus start?

The three-inch golden lotus originated in the Song Dynasty.

The three-inch golden lotus, which first appeared in the Song Dynasty, is an extreme development of ancient women's traditional customs. People call the wrapped feet "lotus", and the different sizes of the feet are different grades of "lotus", larger than four inches are "iron lotus", four inches are "silver lotus", and three inches are "golden lotus". The saying of "three-inch golden lotus" requires that the feet should not only be as small as three inches, but also arched.

The development of the three-inch golden lotus:

In the Ming Dynasty, the trend of women's foot binding entered a prosperous period and developed rapidly in various places. During this period, there were also certain requirements for the shape of the foot, and the saying of "three-inch golden lotus" appeared.

It is required that the feet should not only be as small as three inches, but also bowed, and wrapped in the shape of horns. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhang Xianzhong entered and occupied Sichuan, he cut off women's small feet, and piled up into a mountain, called "Golden Lotus Peak", which shows the prosperity of women's foot binding in Sichuan.

Foot binding has also been forbidden in history. The Qing Dynasty banned it on several occasions, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom issued similar decrees. However, it was not until after the Xinhai Revolution that foot binding from the cities to the countryside was gradually abolished.

As we all know, foot binding is a bad habit in ancient China, in fact, this custom does not exist in someone invented, up and down, the ruler likes, of course the people will follow, this bad habit developed in the Song Dynasty, prevailed in the Qing Dynasty, women are ashamed not to bind their feet.

When the ancient woman was five or six years old, she first had to wrap the tip, use a long strip of cloth to break the four toes except the hallux and bend the soles of the feet to the center of the feet, sprinkle alum between the toes and wrap them tightly, and tighten them again and again; When only the thumb protrudes, wrap the foot thin, and press the four toes under the sole of the foot hard until the toes are all close to the soles of the feet; Finally, it is necessary to wrap the foot, from straight to arch bridge, and then into a horseshoe shape, with a slit between the heel and the toe, and the visual effect is close to high heels. Sprains and dislocations are common in the process of foot binding.

Now we have no way to understand why the ancient people's aesthetics were so strange, they could not see the natural beauty of the human body, but liked the deformed body. The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty believed that small feet were beautiful, so the people also respected small feet, called "three-inch golden lotus". Foot binding is the product of the patriarchal society's "male superiority and inferiority" to a certain point, and the woman is completely confined in the boudoir after the foot binding, which also meets the requirements of the previous "three from four virtues" for women.

The posture of walking after binding the feet will also change a lot, and in the eyes of ancient men, this is Wan Ting, Chu Chu is moving.

There is another reason for the popularity of the three-inch golden lotus, that is, the pursuit of literati, in the early letter of many handed down documents, it can be seen that the literati in the Ming and Qing dynasties had a lot of poems about small feet, and even divided small feet into grades. Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, once wrote, "Delicate words should be difficult, and they must be seen from the palm of the land", and the scholars and literati regarded women as playthings, and they sickly admired the little feet, which contributed to the atmosphere of foot binding.

King Liyan of Chu loves a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace", men's liking has become an aesthetic standard, even at the cost of hurting themselves. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the bad habit of foot binding was able to be achieved.

The three-inch golden lotus is a traditional Chinese women's shoe, which is characterized by a very high heel and only about three inches of the group, so it is named "three-inch golden lotus". This type of shoe was once very popular in ancient China and was seen as a symbol of beauty and elegance.

Regarding the inventor of the three-inch golden lotus, there is no clear record of the collapse of the cave in history. However, according to relevant literature and research, it can be known that the origin of the three-inch golden lotus can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. At that time, the court culture of the Song Dynasty was very prosperous, and women were very interested in beautiful clothes and shoes.

It is said that in order to make their steps lighter, court women at that time began to wear shoes with higher heels and thinner, and later these shoes gradually spread to the people, and gradually evolved into the style of three-inch golden lotus.

The emergence of the three-inch golden lotus is not only a change in shoes, but also a manifestation of culture. It represents the pursuit of beauty and the prosperity of culture among women in that era. Although nowadays, the three-inch golden lotus has gradually withdrawn from people's field of vision, but as a part of traditional Chinese culture, it is still praised and cherished by people.

The earliest origins of "Three Inch Golden Lotus" can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty in China. At that time, there was a folk story called "Raspberry" in Hunan about a beautiful and intelligent woman who fell into an unfortunate situation because of her ill-fated fate, and finally overcame difficulties and hardships with the help of her wisdom and courage, and achieved success and happiness. This story is loved by people and has been passed down to this day.

Later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, **Jia Lingqi asked Meng Chu to adapt "Raspberry" into **"Three Lives and Three Worlds Dream Man", and added the element of immortals to it, which became one of the classic fantasy in the history of Chinese literature. At the beginning of the 20th century, Jiang Guangci adapted the first version of Ling Meng, set the story in the middle of the mine workers, and described the plight and struggle of women in a patriarchal society in a realistic style. This version is considered to be the earliest prototype of "Three Pena Buried Golden Lotus".

After that, "Three Inches of Golden Lotus" continued to change and evolve in different periods and in the hands of different authors, forming different versions.