Why did ancient women wrap their little feet?

The Manchus are accustomed to being afraid that they will not be able to marry bigfoot.

Ancient women had their little feet entangled, didn't they have to walk and work? There is such a sentence in "Peacock Flying Southeast": "Slender and slender steps, exquisite and unparalleled", this sentence means that a beautiful woman with a face like a peach blossom came to the hall, she walked in a small step, just like a weak willow supporting the wind, how could there be such a beautiful woman in the world?

Looking at Liu Lanzhi's slender steps and her crumbling posture, we can judge that this beautiful ancient woman is wrapped around her feet.

Was foot binding a common phenomenon in ancient times? Let's look at the famous choreographer Zhang Jigang, when he co-rehearsed "Liberation", he once asked his elderly mother why she wanted to bind her feet. I was deeply impressed by my mother's: "Women in the old society had to bind their feet, otherwise they would not be able to get married." ”

One. Wrapping small feet, also known as foot binding, is to squeeze and deform people's feet alive to become a sharp and small "three-inch golden lotus".

During the May Fourth New Culture Movement, famous literati such as Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, and Lu Xun violently attacked this evil and bad habit.

Two. It is also said that originated in the Tang Dynasty, and the poet Du Mu had a poem "The thin ruler is about four points, and the slender jade shoots are wrapped in light clouds." ”

It is said that the situation of women binding small feet, and the more common saying is in the Later Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties.

According to Gao Hongxing's "History of Foot Binding", foot binding began in the Song Dynasty. Because Cheng Zhu Lixue in the Song Dynasty nourished a large number of feudal scholars, a strict concept of male superiority and inferiority of women was derived. That's right, the literati of the Song Dynasty fell in love with the posture of women with weak willows and wind support, believing that these women's small feet, walking in high shoes, and their crumbling bodies could inspire them to have a strong sense of superiority.

Three. "Dropout Records" recorded: "Yuanfeng (1078-1085) was still rarely bound before the foot, and the late Song Dynasty was ashamed of Dazu. From the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, it was very common to wrap small feet, and "small feet" has become synonymous with women among the people.

In fact, at first, there were only some noble-born women who bound their feet. After all, in ancient times, productivity was weak, and women were unable to move after binding their feet, making it difficult for them to perform manual labor. And noble-born women do not need to think about these family livelihoods, they have bound their feet since they were young, and they have subordinates to serve them, and a pair of three-inch golden lotuses wrapped up are one of the capitals when they marry and propose marriage.

In ancient times, women still had to walk and work after their little feet were entangled. Binding small feet is the bondage and torture of women in the ancient feudal system.

Work, walk, do housework, have children, do nothing. At that time, foot binding was very common, and there were very few people who did not bind their feet.

Because women at that time paid attention to not going out of the door, once they got married, they would stay at home and would not show their faces. Even if I work, I do some fine work such as needlework.

It's good that I didn't want to be born in the old society

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 kind of atmosphere gradually spread to the common people, and women took 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 woman bound her feet, people called it the "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 tying small feet in feudal society has a long history, and 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.

Foot binding is a kind of custom that destroys women and entertains men during the feudal period. There are different theories about when foot binding began, but it can be determined that it flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and at this time, it was beautiful to wrap the feet in a curved bow tip as small as a lotus petal, and there was a "three-inch golden lotus" saying.

Ancient people were limited by feudal thinking and believed that a woman's three-inch feet were the most beautiful.