Why did women in ancient China wrap their feet? Are there any benefits? What is the impact on women?

China's ancient feudal era is an absolute patriarchal society, the status of women is low, the whole life to men as a program of survival, guarding the three from the four virtues of humble life, in addition to the spiritual oppression, the physical body is also devastated, the most typical is wrapped in a small foot, the ancients beautifully called ? The most typical is the small feet wrapping, the ancient beautiful name is "three-inch golden lotus? , in fact, is the exploitation of eating people without spitting out bones.

In order to cater to the public's deformed aesthetics, girls in ancient times had to be wrapped in feet, and the smaller they were, the more popular they were, so when a girl first learned to walk, her mother or grandmother had to wrap her feet in long strips of shrouded cloth and wrap the feet tightly to prevent them from growing, and then stop wrapping them until the girl grew up and her bones stopped growing.

I don't know if you've seen the photos of the three-inch golden lotus, the whole foot is wrapped up in the feeling of the left a big toe, the shape of the curved, very appalling, but in ancient times, but this is the beauty of the rumor that many men have a foot fetish, and vertical and horizontal really can't understand this taste.

As for the three-inch golden lotus from when it began, folk rumors of many versions, the origin of the most widely circulated is said to be the Five Dynasties period, the South Tang Dynasty Lord Li Yu, good poetry, like the wind and the moon, raised a lot of beautiful white skin, dance outstanding woman, Suhai Niang is one of the best, dancing as if out of the dust, Li Yu very much love, had built a six-foot-high Golden Lotus Terrace for her to the jewels of celluloid decoration, Suhai Niang to color silk wrapped feet, Suhai Niang to colorful silk, and the other two are very good. Niang to color Pal wrapped feet, small curved feet as if the crescent moon, dancing on the Golden Lotus Platform as if swimming dragons, fluttering as if shocked, stunning the time, after the crowd as a beauty of the beauty to follow suit, wrapped feet of the wind spread.

But the origin of the foot-wrapping seems to be inappropriate to the origin of the remote and remote women to dance and sing for a living, certainly not foot-wrapping, because the small feet can not dance, but for the performance effect, only in the performance of the color of silk wrapped feet just.

According to historians, the women's foot-binding style began in the Northern Song Dynasty, the rise of the Southern Song Dynasty, the development of the Yuan Dynasty, the heyday of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Su Dongpo, a great poet, has sung the praises of women's foot-binding in verse: ? The first time I saw a woman's foot-binding, I was so happy to see her. I am worried about the stockings going over the waves. I can only see the dance back to the wind. There is no trace of the line. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at it. I'm stuck in a double-legged position, and I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. It's hard to say. I have to see it from the palm of my hand. It can be seen in the Song Dynasty, women's foot-binding has become the hearts and minds of the literati and writers.

After the Jingkang disaster, the Jin people captured Song women, but also love the young and childless foot-binding women.

Mongolians into the Central Plains, not against the Han Chinese foot binding, but also like, so that the Yuan Dynasty foot-binding wind is more and more prevalent, foot-binding to the direction of the smaller the more beautiful development.

During the Ming Dynasty, the three-inch golden lotus, as we know it, became commonplace, and women had to work hard to achieve a footbinding of less than three inches.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the country, the rulers once ordered the abolition of foot-binding, but the folk voice of opposition is very high, repeatedly prohibited, the court also listened to it, there is the Qing Dynasty, the wind of foot-binding not only did not control, but also spread to the country, and many remote areas began to be wrapped in feet. The Qing dynasty died, the custom of foot-binding has not been abandoned.

In 1903, Japan organized a fair for backward regions. When the foot-wrapping of Chinese women was exhibited alongside some of the strange customs of natives such as those of the Philippines, people realized how strange foot-wrapping was in the eyes of people in other countries.

Women's foot-binding was an important phenomenon in the feudal society that oppressed women. For the sake of the ancient feudal ideology of the three obediences and four virtues, the rule of women, women's discipline and so on, women's foot-binding was conducive to confining them in the boudoir, which limited their range of activities and made it easy for men to control them.

The main purpose of foot binding for women in ancient China was to look pretty. Small feet, also called lotus feet, were considered extremely sexy, and women with small feet were seen as weak and in need of men's protection. Moreover, most of the women who had their feet wrapped were from rich families and had an aristocratic air. If a woman from a poor family had her feet wrapped, she wouldn't be able to do rough work. Footbinding also became a symbol of purity because in ancient times a woman could not go out alone by herself with her feet wrapped. And very few women in poor families had their feet wrapped, if any, only for the possibility of marrying into the upper class.

The feudal literati had a deformed aesthetic and thought that small feet were the most beautiful, and then many literati liked to look at women's small feet. This morbid aesthetics made the upper class also form this kind of thought. So women's foot-binding became a society-wide trend.

Physiologically speaking, after a woman wraps her feet, she can better exercise her leg muscles, thus making her waist and pelvis more developed, which is favorable for women to give birth. This is in line with the ancient idea that women used to pass on the family name, because in ancient times, they all talked about the power of the family, a family, if the more people, it means that the family is more prosperous. So in order to the prosperity of the family, in ancient times, women were required to give birth to children all their lives, and foot-binding for this is favorable. So this is for the ancient men women foot-binding is a must.