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What are the traditional bad habits in China?

China has a long history of more than 5,000 years. Naturally, many customs have been passed down, but there are some good customs and some bad customs. We need to remove the dross and take the essence. It is a good tradition that we naturally want to pass on, but of course not all of them are good. Those bad habits we also need to correct in time, do not continue to pass on.

What I hate the most is the foot-binding this bad habit, we went to travel a museum, which put a pair of the old lady foot-binding before the old lady to wear small shoes. It looked really small, much smaller than my palm, let alone a pair of feet.

I don't know why small feet are considered beautiful, but the aesthetics and vision of people in ancient times used to be really problematic. When women's feet began to grow, they were wrapped up vigorously with cloth and silk, also known as foot binding. Restricting the growth of the feet is like putting a fruit inside a model and letting it grow however it wants.

Women's feet became deformed, some were so small that sometimes walking was a problem, and in old age there were many genetic diseases. Seeing their shoes, we can imagine how miserable their feet are.

In fact, this is also a side reflection of the status of women in ancient times is very low, even though there are a lot of people do not want to wrap the feet. But in ancient times women simply do not have the right to speak, it is all about male supremacy, what men say is what, let them do what they do, at home just need to teach their children.

The child bride habit is now gone, I do not know in which poor mountainous areas there is no such habit. The so-called child brides are girls who go to their husbands' families when they are young and are raised by the male family. When she grows up and reaches marriageable age, she marries the man directly.

These are due to the fact that in those backward areas, people are so poor that they can't get a daughter-in-law. So they went to those even poorer people to adopt girls, but then after the marriage law came into being, they couldn't do that anymore.