Foot binding, also known as foot binding, began at the end of the Five Dynasties. From the cultural relics excavated underground and ancient documents, we know that the shape of men's and women's shoes was the same before the Five Dynasties. During the reign of Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, she indulged in music, poetry, singing and dancing, and drank and had fun with concubines all day long. There was a concubine named Yan Niang in the palace, who was originally the daughter of an official family, but later became a prostitute in Jinling because of her poor family. She was born slim and good at singing and dancing, and was favored by Li Yu. Li Yu's imperial edict is to build a golden lotus platform, which is six feet high and decorated with treasures. The net belt is tassel, and all kinds of red lotus flowers are inlaid in Taichung. Let your mother tie her feet with silk, bend down to make a new moon, dance in the lotus in plain socks, and spin like a lingyun. Li Yu was overjoyed. Since then, in order to maintain and improve the stunt of this dance, Renniang often wraps her feet tightly with white silk. Over time, she wrapped her feet into "Hong Ling shape" and "crescent shape", which made her dance more natural and beautiful. When people competed to imitate, after five generations, it gradually formed an atmosphere that swept the whole society.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the old man Taiping wrote & gt further comments: "There are three things in modern times that can't be compared with those in ancient times:' flowers, tea and women's feet'." It can be seen that in the Northern Song Dynasty, the women in Luoyang wrapped their feet in gorgeous peony and the fragrant tea in Jianzhou were hailed as wonders of the world! In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Lingshi wrote the poem "Huanxisha", one of which said: "Bow shoes are stable." Since then, "three-inch golden lotus" has become synonymous with women's feet. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, women's foot-binding had become quite common. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was a shame for women not to bind their feet. Women's foot-binding did not begin in the Qing Dynasty, but was pushed up all the time, which was about produced in the Five Dynasties or the early Song Dynasty. Anyway, people in the Tang Dynasty didn't bind their feet. Foot-binding prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the Song Dynasty, only aristocratic women bound their feet, while ordinary women did not. Moreover, the requirements for foot binding at that time were only straight, which was not so bad for later generations.