"Three-inch Golden Lotus" is the laudatory name of embroidered shoes worn by foot-binding women in China. Foot-binding is an ancient custom in China, and it has not yet been determined when it began. There is a saying that this custom began in the Southern Tang Dynasty (937-975 AD), when Li Houzhu asked ladies-in-waiting to tie their feet in a crescent shape with cloth so that they could dance on a lotus platform made of six feet of gold. This custom has been followed both inside and outside the harem. Foot binding is a very inhuman custom. Girls should wrap their feet with cloth when they are four or five years old, so that the soles of their feet will not grow up. With the growth of age, the cloth wrapped around your feet is getting tighter and tighter. After a long time, the soles of the feet become triangles, and women who bind their feet lose the ability to walk. As the saying goes, "a pair of little feet and a jar of tears" means that foot-binding brought unimaginable pain to women at that time. Three-inch golden lotus is a small shoe set on the "triangle" sole. Three-inch golden lotus is usually more gorgeous than ordinary shoes, with peony, goldfish, Fu Lushou and other traditional national patterns in China, and the toe is slightly upturned. The golden lotus worn by young women is usually bright red; The old woman is dressed in black or dark color. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi and Emperor Kangxi prohibited folk women from foot binding, but the habit of foot binding never stopped. After the success of the Revolution of 1911, the government at that time banned foot binding as a measure to liberate women. During the May 4th Movement, there were also regulations prohibiting women from binding their feet. After the Revolution of 1911, China people gradually opened their minds, and no one bound their feet any more. Three-inch golden lotus can only be seen in museums now.