What does the three-inch golden lotus mean?

Three-inch golden lotus, commonly referred to as foot binding, is an ancient custom in China.

Foot-binding is a bad habit in ancient China. Is to wrap a woman's feet with cloth and deform them. Generally, women begin to bind their feet from the age of four or five, untie the cloth belt until the adult bones are shaped, and some are bound for life.

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In China's ancient aesthetic concept, the so-called female beauty is to show her "feminine" side, that is, petite, weak, demure, soft curve and so on. From the "small" point of view, cherry small mouth, oval face and slender waist are all characteristics of female beauty, and feet are no exception. Before the Song Dynasty, although there was no custom of foot-binding, and there was no fanaticism of deliberately seeking feet, the concept of taking women's football as beauty existed.

Women's foot-binding has completely changed women's style and gait. "It produces a very stiff and beautiful gait, which makes the whole body fragile and trembling, and produces a delicate and touching feeling." After the custom of foot-binding came into being, it became more and more fierce, swept across the country and lasted for a long time, which was inseparable from the aesthetic taste in society at that time. People regard the slender fibers under skirts as beauty. ?

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