What is the reason for women to bind their little feet in history?

Reportedly. The first time to wrap small feet began in 969-975 A.D. during the reign of Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty, a lady of the Empress Li had the ingenuity to wrap her feet into the shape of a crescent moon with silk and dance on the golden lotus to please the emperor. Later, this practice spread to the people, and the practice of binding small feet gradually spread to the common people.

However, some people believe that as early as the Warring States period in 770-476 BC, small foot binding appeared, and perhaps even earlier it can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty.

There is no historical record, and it has not been rigorously verified.

The ancients felt that women's big feet were not good-looking, and hoped that women would not go out of the door, which reflected the discrimination against women in society at that time.

Feudal thinking, stay at home, you must not leave.

Because the ancients thought that the little feet were good-looking, three-inch golden lotus.

In fact, in ancient times, women's foot binding was a kind of restraint from men to women. It is a disadvantage that should be completely eliminated. Because the feet are small and inconvenient to walk, letting the woman wrap her feet can prevent the red apricot from going out of the wall.

Just as men in ancient Egypt did not give their wives shoes; European men in the Middle Ages made chastity belts for women. In fact, in poor and backward China, except for a few wealthy women, most small-footed women have to run for a living, and the hardships they pay are far greater than that of a woman with natural feet. Women with small feet are not only impaired in their movements, but also have great physical injuries.

Because they think it looks good, wrapping small feet is to wrap women's feet that have not grown up with cloth layer by layer in the girlhood, so as to inhibit the growth of feet, and the winding can not be untied for a long time, even when sleeping, the process of wrapping feet is very painful, and the nails are often embedded in the flesh, and the bone deformation is also unbearable pain.

At that time, the social status of men was very high, and men felt that the smaller the feet, the better they looked, so girls would wrap their feet. This is not right, because the damage to the body is very great.

Women wrap their feet because they think it looks beautiful when they walk like this, and it is also a kind of restraint on women. It's not right to wrap your little feet.

In ancient times, women bound their feet to make their walking posture look good, but later according to folklore, there were other reasons. Some people say that women wrap their little feet in order to give birth to children in the future so that they can give birth naturally, and some people say that women with small feet can look like small birds and make men like them more.

In ancient times, there were many words of praise for small feet, such as "golden lotus", "three-inch golden lotus", "incense hook", etc., all of which were praised by cultural people for women with small feet. But this kind of pain cannot be felt by those who have not experienced it.

Su Dongpo's poem "Bodhisattva Man" said that "it should be difficult to say that it is delicate and must be seen from the palm of the hand", and also formulated seven standards for the beauty of small feet: thin, small, pointed, curved, fragrant, soft, and positive, and summarized the "seven beauties" of small feet: shape, quality, capital, god, fat, soft, and beautiful.

It can be seen that people recognized the act of binding small feet at that time, and in modern times, this system has been slowly abolished.

Men can never understand the pain of a woman's little feet, the feeling of breaking all the muscles and bones, and we can't imagine what kind of pain it is.

Binding small feet first began in 969-975 A.D. 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.