It is said that women's foot binding began in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties. At that time, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Dynasties, specially asked someone to make a pair of six-foot-high golden lotus, decorated with jewelry and satin, and then asked a princess who loved singing and dancing to wrap her feet in cloth, put on six-foot-high golden lotus and dance on the lotus stage. In this way, her dance looks more beautiful. In the inner rooms of the imperial palace in the Northern Song Dynasty, women's foot binding was also very popular.
At that time, the emphasis was on "three-inch golden lotus". The smaller a woman's feet, the better. It can't be more than three inches long. Gradually, women in society began to follow suit and gradually formed a new aesthetic concept, that is, taking small feet as beauty. However, this aesthetic view is harmful to women's health. Their feet can't grow and deform normally, which is a kind of harm to their body and mind. To say that ancient women were imprisoned, foot binding is definitely a typical example.
I saw grandma's feet with my own eyes, which can only be described in four words: unbelievable. Judging from the available data, women's foot binding should have originated in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, developed in the Southern Song Dynasty, prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and disappeared in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The popularity of female foot-binding is mainly related to the popularization of Neo-Confucianism after Jing Kang's hardship. First of all, chastity was highly valued in ancient times. As the saying goes, men are the masters outside and women are the masters inside, which is particularly prominent in feudal society, because women's feet will become smaller and more inconvenient when walking, which further promotes women to stay at home and can further protect women's chastity, but women's foot binding is also cruel. It will deform the bones of the feet and require surgery from an early age. There are many things that can cause a girl to die in pain.
In ancient times, there was a saying of "three-inch golden lotus", which means the beauty of small feet, because women's feet are big if they are not tied, while women's bodies are mostly small and look ugly. So in order to make women look more beautiful, they have the habit of foot binding. Of course, there is also a saying that foot-binding is more sexy for women and can arouse men's sexual desire. Of course, there are many other theories.