Foot binding is a tradition.

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The custom of foot binding, as long as it comes from China, must have been heard. Foot binding itself is the product of the traditional concept that men are superior to women.

Take a picture first and feel it.

There are different opinions on the origin of foot binding, some dating back to the ancient Dayu period, and some as late as the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. There are many stories among them, and I will tell you one that is more well known to the public.

Zhao in the Han Dynasty was well known for his wonderful posture, light posture and palm dancing. And this palm dance is naturally not just a light gesture, just imagine the taste of your 38-year-old feet standing in someone else's hands.

It is said that this three-inch golden lotus is because Zhao danced the palm dance, which made the emperor happy. After that, folk women followed suit and wrapped their feet into small feet, hoping to please the emperor, which gradually became a folk tradition.

Of course, this is just a legend, why the source of foot binding is not elegant.

It hurts to mention the cruelty of foot binding to women.

When a woman's skeleton is still developing at the age of eleven or twelve, it is impossible to wrap her feet with cloth, and it is layer by layer, leaving no gaps.

The age of foot binding is teenagers, but the required feet are small feet, which involves how to make the big ones smaller.

Therefore, the first step of foot binding is to wrap the soles of the feet into a ball.

The child was growing up at that time. Imagine that the pain of leg bones caused by rapid growth at night has not dissipated, and there will be the next wave of pain caused by binding feet. The pain in the leg is that the bone is elongated during the growing period, and the pain in the foot is that the bone is bound, bent and unable to grow.

At the end of the growing season, it is not the feet of six or seven-year-old children that are no longer growing, but the deformed feet that have been wrapped and unknown.

The bone was strangled under several layers of cloth.

With feet like that, you can't walk for a long time, let alone work in the fields. This has further deepened women's dependence on men and further consolidated men's social and family status.

If it's just the above situation, it's ok. Female foot-binding is often accompanied by pus, inflammation and ulceration. It is common for white cloth strips to be red with blood. The pain must be told only by witnesses.

The custom of female foot-binding can be traced back to the concept that men are superior to women. Rulers like women with little feet to dance, so ministers and officials follow suit, and the people are willing to listen to the emperor's wishes.

Secondly, the literati's aesthetics, mostly elegant, like delicate and small things, women are like canaries, and they will dress beautifully. If you have a Hosta on your head, a ruby red on your ears and a golden bird around your neck. All kinds of beautiful elements come together, and as a result, a pair of size 38 coarse cloth shoes are worn on my feet, which is really ugly. The literati's aesthetics further promoted the prevalence of "little feet".

As for the sponsor, it must not be the woman herself. How many people in ancient society would ask their daughter's home, would you like it? And even if asked, how many people can stand up against it?

This kind of bone-tearing pain is all given to women.