Foot-binding began in Yu Xia, Shang Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, Sui Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty. Textual research on Gao Hongxing's professional book History of Foot-binding shows that foot-binding began in the late Northern Song Dynasty and rose in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Foot-binding in Yuan Dynasty continued to develop in a slim direction. Foot binding reached its peak in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The wind of foot-binding has spread to women in all walks of life, rich or poor, but there are not a few who do not.
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Foot-binding is a traditional bad habit, which deprives women of their freedom of action and personal dignity through artificial disability to satisfy the morbid aesthetics of men in feudal times. Foot binding has brought great disaster to the Chinese nation. It exposes gender discrimination to the public, making women lose their self-esteem and men lose their moral sensitivity.
Any society, if people get used to the injustice around them and regard it as the normal state, will be numb, corrupt and degenerate, and will be eliminated by the tide of modernization.
The fact is, foot binding is not a national study, and no sage has advocated it. Foot-binding sprouted in Sui Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. Because of the weakness of the Song Dynasty, we have to internalize the anger of repeated wars and defeats into the family, prove the purity of blood by killing women, and distinguish China people from foreigners.
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