First, foot binding has seriously affected the normal development of women's feet, leading to foot deformity.

In the era of foot-binding, women often compare themselves to "legless crabs". The most direct reason is the deformity of the toes of the little feet, which leads to the abnormal development of the feet.

Second, foot-binding brings great pain to women.

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.

Third, foot-binding makes it inconvenient for women to move, resulting in acquired disadvantages.

It is difficult to walk with small feet. If you move, you must hold the wall and hold the pole with crutches. You can only keep maids if you have the conditions. Even' the handmaid can only go to the atrium', I hear from time to time that you are completely supported by others. If you are alone, it is difficult to move from one room to another. As for going out on the road, even if you hold the staff to help the maid, you will be panting if you don't go far.

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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The origin and prosperity of foot binding

Foot binding agreement originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. In earlier records, it is difficult to determine whether foot binding is really implemented, just praising the little woman with feet and describing the decoration of feet. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was said that the empress was the initiator of foot binding.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that there was a clear record of foot binding. Foot-binding was first popular among prostitutes, and then it gradually affected upper-middle class women.

By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, foot-binding was gradually popularized among women in the general class, and almost all women everywhere had the custom of foot-binding. Tao, a writer in the early Ming Dynasty, said in the section of "Foot-binding" that "before Ning Yuanfeng, there were few people, but in recent years, everyone made concerted efforts to be ashamed of not doing it", which shows that foot-binding became popular in the Ming Dynasty.

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, there were even examples of men binding their feet for a specific purpose. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the prostitute Sang Chong disguised as a man to seduce a good woman, "wearing a bun to make up a woman's head" and wrapped her feet into small feet.

However, there are exceptions. Shen Defu, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in Wan Ye Li's Living Pieces that ladies-in-waiting in the Ming Dynasty did not bind their feet. Furthermore, for example, Hakka women have a tradition of farming and picking tea, so they don't practice foot binding. In the Qing dynasty, flag bearers were not allowed to bind their feet. On the other hand, Japanese, Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam, which are deeply influenced by China culture, do not practice foot binding.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Foot binding (a custom in ancient China)