Now there is no such bad habit as foot binding in our country. When was it abolished?

The abolition of foot-binding was in the late Qing Dynasty, and Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the formal abolition of the foot-binding system. Ancient women not only had low social status, but also endured unbearable pain of ordinary people, that is, foot binding. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the king had a concubine who was good at dancing. She is small and exquisite, and a pair of jade feet is the size of a palm. The king loves her very much. She chiseled the floor of her palace into a lotus flower and walked like a lotus flower step by step. The king was very happy to see her. Other concubines in the harem followed suit to win the king's favor. Some concubines have big feet, so they think of using Buller to tighten, which gradually evolved into foot binding.

With the passage of time, foot-binding spread to the people and gradually became the standard to evaluate whether a woman is a noble family. The method of foot binding is very painful. When a woman is four or five years old, she wraps her feet with a piece of silk that is only one foot wide and two feet wide. Except for the big toe, the other four toes were cut off, tightly attached to the soles of her feet, and then her feet were stuffed into pointed cloth shoes, called three-inch golden lotus. ?

Although this is beautiful, the pain suffered by women is very great. They not only have to endure the pain of broken toes, but also live in pain every day after that. They can't stand for a long time, but walk slowly, which means they have completely lost their ability to make a living. After all, how can a person who can't even walk go out to make money? He can only rely more on men. ?

It was not until the Qing army entered the customs that this custom gradually disintegrated. Manchu people come from customs and belong to nomadic people. They need to migrate frequently to find suitable grasslands. Women there not only have to wash clothes and cook, but also ride horses and shoot arrows, so they must not bind their feet. After entering the Central Plains, I didn't understand the custom of foot binding, especially after Empress Dowager Cixi mastered the state affairs. She believes that women should have the right and freedom to choose, so she decided to abolish the old custom of foot binding, which changed the fate of women all over the country and saved them from suffering.