China Han women's foot binding probably started in Song Dynasty. They tied their ankles tightly with a long piece of cloth, thus forcing their feet to become slim and Qu Zhi. They bound their feet not only because they were bound by feudal ethics, but also to cater to men's aesthetics.
Ancient women's foot-binding generally began at the age of five or six. Women of this age will not be too brittle, and it is convenient to walk after foot binding. Foot binding is usually operated by the mother. If the family economy is better, parents can take care of it. They have rich experience and are more skilled in binding. close
For five or six-year-old children, the pain caused by foot binding may not be clear, so before it is untied, the mother will take a tentative way to let the child bear the foot binding and let it go at the first time. When children begin to bear foot binding, it will get tighter and tighter.
Once a woman binds her feet, she can't even untie the foot binding cloth when she sleeps except washing her feet. In order to avoid suffering and getting rid of the foot binding cloth, we should sew the joints one by one with needle and thread after foot binding.
When a woman's feet are basically formed at the age of 12 or 13, her mother will change from a foot-binding person to a monitor, and her daughter will do the foot washing every day. Because the so-called "neither rot nor small, the worse the better", some mothers will deliberately put gravel, gravel and so on. When you bind your daughter's feet, you can use a foot-binding cloth or even an acupuncture knife to fester the muscles on their feet, so the foot-binding effect is better.
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Foot-binding effect
Physiology and psychology: Foot-binding not only seriously affects the normal development of female feet, but also makes people form abnormal aesthetic psychology.
Art and sports: Foot-binding reduces women's enthusiasm for dance and sports. For example, the dance art imported from China by North Korea and Japan has been developing continuously. On the contrary, in China, the development of dance art has stagnated with the development of foot binding.
Foot binding hinders women's every move. Rich ladies and celebrities have their own servants to drive, while ordinary women have to rely on themselves and have to sweep and sit on their knees. What's more, it is necessary to grind, transplant rice seedlings and cut rice. The bitterness and bitterness among them are not clear to those who have experienced it.
The pain of foot binding, the pain of cutting bones and carving, especially in the early stage of foot binding. Every time I entangle my baggage, I feel unbearable pain and sobs. Foot-binding often occurs at 2 o'clock in the morning and evening, so the cries of girls in the morning and evening have become a great tragedy in China society in the foot-binding era.
Foot-binding makes women suffer and suffer for no reason. Difficulties in walking hinder women's normal participation in social work and social activities. Women are confined in boudoir, ignorant, and lose the ability to make a living, thus developing dependence, arrogance, inertia and inferiority, which also makes their social status even lower.
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