Revealing ancient women's foot binding: Three-inch golden lotus is the most intimate part of a woman.

? Revealing ancient women's foot binding: Three-inch golden lotus is the most intimate part of a woman.

There are three major sexual malformations in ancient China: one is a prostitute, the other is a eunuch, and the third is a woman's foot binding. Among them, prostitutes and eunuchs are also found abroad, and foot-binding of women is a unique phenomenon in ancient China. So, in the past, Westerners regarded China as a human being? Sick man of East Asia? China men's long braids and China women's small feet are always regarded as symbols of China's ignorance and backwardness.

When did China women's foot binding begin? Opinions vary. More commonly, the Queen of Southern Tang Dynasty has a maid-in-waiting, who dances well. It is a golden lotus, which is six feet high and decorated with treasures. There is a wreath on the Internet. There is also a work by China, "Sereilian", which allows girls to bind their feet with silk, bend over to make a new moon, and dance in the lotus with plain socks, whirling like lingyun. Then the wind spread from the palace to the outside? Some people think that this is the beginning of female foot binding.

In the song dynasty, women's foot-binding gradually spread from the court to the people, and at the end of the song dynasty, there was a rise in society? The shame of Dazu? Atmosphere. In the Ming Dynasty, women's foot binding became more popular, and everyone thought it was fashionable. Fangqu All prostitutes use their feet as a tool to charm men.

The specific method of foot binding is to tightly bind the woman's ankle with a long and narrow cloth bag, thus making the musculoskeletal abnormality and the foot slightly flexed, which is in line with the aesthetics at that time. In the era of foot binding, most women began to bind their feet at the age of four or five, and they could not untie the cloth until adulthood. There is also a lifetime of entanglement to the old day.

After a woman binds her feet, her three-inch golden lotus becomes the most intimate part, and must not be seen by strange men. It doesn't matter if a man accidentally touches other parts of a woman's body (including her chest) except her husband. It is absolutely impossible to touch her feet. In ancient China, there were many erotic paintings. Everything about the body could be * * *, but there was never a woman with * * * feet, so this place is the greatest privacy.

In Jin Ping Mei, it is described that Ximen Qing took a fancy to Pan Jinlian and made Wang Po pimp. Wang Po said? It's hard to say whether she has this idea. You can come to my house for dinner, and I'll invite her. When eating, you can pretend to drop chopsticks on the ground, and then bend down to pick them up and pinch her little feet. If she attacks, an old woman can do nothing; If she doesn't say anything, that's fine. ? Ximen Qing did it, and it succeeded.

A pair of small feet after foot binding not only have various inconveniences in real life, but also women have to bear great disability and pain in the whole process of foot binding. This kind of thing, which has no practical effect and makes the victims extremely miserable, has become popular and has become a social custom for hundreds of years.

Women's foot-binding lasted until the early Republic of China in the 20th century, but it was not until the liberation of the whole country that a few remote areas still existed.

Why can foot binding be popular among the people?

It is not easy to wrap your feet. The folk proverb says:? Wrap your feet in tears? . Foot-binding generally begins at the age of four or five and takes shape at the age of seven or eight. Burn your feet with hot water before binding them. While the feet are still hot, bend the four toes except the thumb to the soles of the feet, so that the toes are close to the soles of the feet, and apply alum between the toes to eliminate dampness, kill insects and detoxify. But there are still many girls whose feet are still festering and bleeding, so it is difficult to stand and can only climb for a long time. After such a long time, the foot will twist into a short bow, which will make the sole of the foot concave and the instep convex, and the length of the whole foot will be greatly shortened. As you can imagine, a sound and perfect foot is forcibly twisted into an irregular triangle, and that kind of pain must have been bitten into the bone and engraved on the heart. So, what does the proverb say? A can of tears? This is by no means an arbitrary exaggeration.

Foot binding is so painful, how can it become popular among the people? There are probably the following reasons:

First, the distorted aesthetic concept of feudal society caused it. In feudal society, the court and officialdom were the source of social atmosphere. Because emperors and officials thought feet were beautiful, ignorant people regarded feet as beauty, or even called them? Three inches of golden lotus? . In the eyes of people at that time, what was a little foot? Female beauty? A very important aspect. No matter how good a woman looks and figure, if she has a pair of small feet or her feet are not small enough (more than three inches), she will be laughed at and will not get married. People completely put aside the damage to the human body and the inconvenience of moving, thinking that small feet are exquisite, exquisite and beautiful, which can be pleasing to the eye, while women with small feet walk unsteadily, like the wind shaking, and look good. This aesthetic view is really incomprehensible! This kind of violation of nature and health is based on the destruction of women's bodies? Beautiful? , is the extreme distortion and abnormal condition of real beauty.

Second, a patriarchal society? Men are superior to women? The product of traditional customs. From Confucius? Only villains and women are difficult to raise? From the beginning of speech, the bad tradition of male superiority and female inferiority in feudal society has continued. Once the woman's feet are entangled? Three inches of golden lotus? Women are bound to be greatly restricted in their labor and communication. Only when they are trapped at home, even if they are standing or walking, they have to lean against the wall. In this way, not only let? Men are in charge and women are in charge? Nature, also let? Strong men and weak women? It is more difficult for women to be dissatisfied, more difficult to resist, and more difficult to elope. It has become an ironclad fact that they have to submit to humiliation and be at the mercy of others. This is completely the oppression and control of women by the patriarchal society. This oppression and control has indeed achieved practical results, as the daughter classic said:? Afraid that he (she) will walk out of the door lightly and be bound by countless ties? . What is particularly unreasonable is that women's abused feet have become an important item to arouse men's sexual excitement. According to records, since the Song Dynasty, a kind of? Wine? In the game, prostitutes' little feet and their little shoes are highlighted from beginning to end, and prostitutes' clients put wine glasses in prostitutes' little shoes to pass, pour and drink. Until the beginning of the 20th century, there were still some men who liked to take part in such activities? Wine? In the game, the opportunity of excitement is to drink with glass in women's little shoes in brothels. Imagine how disgusting and hateful this game is.

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Third, the acid literati added fuel to the fire. The little shoes mentioned above that play with prostitutes? Wine? Games are mostly the hobbies of literati. This shows that literati are vulgar. Not only that, but also some sour scholars are interested in discussing what little feet do? Study? Do it. They write articles with pen and ink, carefully evaluate them, and take pleasure in being mean. The following is honor, for fear that they can't explain clearly the aesthetic composition and flirting function of playing with feet. In the Qing dynasty, a scholar named Fang Xuan once claimed to be? Dr Xiang Lian? , wrote an article called "Xiang Lian Pinzao", painstakingly divided the foot into five types, nine types and eighteen types, and carefully tasted and appreciated them respectively. Incredibly, Fang Xuan will be famous for it! It can be seen that the * * * and meanness of the acid literati have also added a code that cannot be ignored for the continuation of the full-scale atmosphere.