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It is said that foot-binding is a kind of bad habits, then why it can still continue for nearly a thousand years?

And in fact, in ancient times, there are more difficult things than this, that is, women must be wrapped feet, otherwise such a woman is no one wants to marry her, so why in ancient times, wrapping the feet is very painful, women still must be wrapped feet it? Women compatriots can be said to be y persecuted by the feudal society habits, they were forced to wrap their feet from childhood, so that the foot deformed development, in order to meet the public "women small feet" aesthetic, which has caused serious physical and mental harm to women throughout the ages. Especially after the decoration of the small-footed women dancing in the appearance of unparalleled beauty, and feet and grow small and exquisite, especially beautiful, this small-footed aesthetics once became the wind vane of that era.

In this way, women who had their feet wrapped were unable to travel long distances or do heavy work, and could only stay at home and do some needlework; men, on the other hand, could not go out because of the women's inability to go out, and could "rest assured" that they would be able to work outside. Foot-binding belongs to a kind of bad habits, wrapped out of the small feet is also very ugly, genocide, but in the time is different. In ancient times, small feet were called three-inch golden lotus, the smaller the woman's feet, the better, the more beautiful she looked, really a kind of morbid aesthetics. And then listen to them tell the pain of wrapping their feet as children, while five or six years old when the body is still tender, hard to break the bones of the feet wrapped up, that is really a word and a tear ah! I'm so old, I still feel pain when I remember, and this pain has been with them all their lives.

When I was young, there was a 90-year-old grandmother in our village who had her feet wrapped when she was a child, so that her feet are now severely deformed, and she said that her parents let her wrap them when she was a child. So why were feet wrapped in ancient times? I think there are three reasons. It was caused by Li Yu, the later lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was an incompetent emperor. Since there was no hope for the restoration of his country, he drank to drown his sorrows, recited poems when he drank too much, and made a mess with his concubines, as if he knew that his country was doomed to perish, and so he planned to spend the rest of his life in a happy way. Such an aesthetic is incomprehensible! This kind of against nature and health, built on the destruction of women's bodies based on the molding of "beauty", is the extreme distortion and perversion of the authentic beauty.