What horrible folk customs or systems are there in China?

Foot-binding refers to wrapping a woman's feet tightly with long strips of cloth to make the deformity of the feet smaller and more beautiful. In the era of foot binding, some women began to bind their feet from the age of four or five, and did not untie the cloth until the bones were fixed in adulthood. Some of them were imprisoned for life. Foot fans often subdivide the noble, the cheap, the beautiful and the ugly according to their size. The golden lotus is within three inches, the silver lotus is within four inches, and the iron lotus is above four inches.

Martyrdom is a funeral custom. But now, martyrdom is very rare, and it is considered a serious crime. At the funeral ceremony, the widow of her late husband committed suicide by jumping into the burning fire in order to contribute to her husband. It is speculated that martyrdom is voluntary, and according to the available information, it is confirmed that most of them are very voluntary. In some societies, widows are expected to be buried with them To some extent, martyrdom is a compulsory system. Society put pressure on them and expected them to be buried.

Concubine is a social class composed of women and girls. They form a marriage-like relationship with men with high social status. Usually, a man has a formal wife and one or more concubines. Concubine is the sex slave of the man. She has no property right, no personal freedom, no equal status, and can trade and give away. Because China was monogamous in ancient times, concubines were not as good as wives, so concubines can only be regarded as handmaiden. Historically, women often volunteered to be concubines and were arranged by girls or their families. Being a concubine can bring economic security to women in the future, and sometimes concubines will be forced and enslaved and become a tool for male hosts to vent.

China banned this custom in 1960, so this tradition hardly existed at that time. But by 1980, this custom was legalized again.