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How hard did ancient girls fight for beauty? In Song Dynasty, foot binding was advocated for the beauty of feet, and waist binding was popular in Europe.
Summer has come, and many girls have put on beautiful skirts. They are full of fairy tales, and their gestures have become a beautiful scenery in the crowd.

But if girls want to achieve this effect by wearing skirts, they often need to control their weight and keep slim.

In daily life, girls always attach great importance to their appearance. They ask every day, "Is my face big? The waist is thick again? The legs are fat again? "

Everyone has a love of beauty. The person who answers is often embarrassed. If you are fat, once you get a positive answer, the girls may have a clear understanding, decide to repent, then eat less, exercise every day, and what's more, buy diet pills, tea, belts and electric hula hoops to lose weight.

If you are not satisfied with your five senses, go to a beauty salon for medical beauty, bury the thread with a knife, cut the bone and pad your nose, and turn yourself into the ideal type in your heart. Through the above methods, you can help yourself lose weight quickly and restore beauty.

But the belt does great harm to the body, and some people are even sent to hospital for treatment. Think about tying that thing around your waist and squeezing it. It will crush all your internal organs and hinder the normal operation of your body. In the long run, this waist-binding method is extremely unfavorable to the health of girls.

However, girls' obsession with beauty can always make many people ignore the harm. This is true at all times, at home and abroad, such as foot binding in the east and waist binding in the west, but the beauty produced by this behavior is constantly destroying women's bodies, which we call morbid beauty.

There are different opinions about the origin of foot binding. Some people say that da ji has been favored since the Xia and Shang Dynasties. Apart from her beauty, it is because of her little feet that women imitate wrapping them.

Some people say that it started in the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang Di crossed Jiangdu for good luck. A woman hated the tyranny of Emperor Yang Di and told the blacksmith to build a lotus petal knife and wrap it at his feet. He carved lotus flowers on the soles of his shoes and gave birth to them step by step. When Emperor Yang Di saw these women with blue hearts, they were very happy and liked her little feet.

When he was lucky, Emperor Yang Di asked to see this woman's little feet. The woman slowly untied her foot binding cloth, suddenly took out a lotus petal knife and stabbed him in an attempt to assassinate the emperor, but the emperor Yang Di escaped, but he was also scratched. Seeing that the assassination failed, the woman committed suicide. Later, Emperor Yang Di said that all women who entered the palace were not allowed to wrap their feet. When women at that time heard that they could not enter the palace to escape the tyranny of Emperor Yang Di, they began to wrap their feet.

In the Five Dynasties, concubines and girls in Li Houzhu in the Southern Tang Dynasty were excellent dancers, so Li Houzhu made a six-foot golden lotus shoe and decorated it with colored gems. Li Houzhu asked her to wrap her feet, put on golden lotus shoes and dance on the lotus picking stage. He thinks her appearance is more charming, and the two complement each other, which can highlight the charm of the princess.

Under the influence of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, foot binding reached its peak in the Song Dynasty.

Shi Hao, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote "Huanxisha", which describes the love of dignitaries for the feet of three-inch golden lotus: pearls strive for beauty skillfully, only when the bow is narrow can they move, and socks turn to pity when they are annoyed. After the dance, there is a fragrant embroidered mattress, and the golden lotus is traceless.

Foot-binding causes women's center of gravity to be unstable, and they will not stride forward as they wish when walking, so they must focus on their hips. Song people think that women walk, but they have a unique flavor, a variety of customs, graceful and slow pace, giving people the feeling of delicate women.

Contrary to Song people's aesthetic interest in foot binding, foot binding is a very cruel thing.

The process of foot-binding is to wrap a woman's feet with cloth and put on special iron shoes to shape the woman's feet. With the growth of the body, it can't grow under the imprisonment of iron shoes. Finally, a woman's feet will be cured and cured, and gradually take shape in this repeated and endless pain.

Under the confinement of foot-binding, women can concentrate on teaching each other at home, so as to achieve the goal of male ploughing and female knitting.

In order to marry a good family, girls at that time generally had to bind their feet, otherwise they would be excluded and laughed at.

What kind of pathological brain circuits are these?

With the development of the times, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although people advocated foot binding, the emperor did not marry the woman who bound feet as a princess. Ma Huanghou, the famous Bigfoot, didn't wrap his feet. After archaeological discovery, besides Bigfoot in Ma Huanghou, the Wanli Queen was also the Bigfoot Queen.

After the Qing dynasty entered the customs, it also issued a decree to abolish the custom of foot binding, but it had little effect.

At that time, men were required to shave their heads and women abolished foot binding. But only men shave their hair, but women don't abandon foot binding, which leads to the saying that men are healthy and women are unhealthy. Insisting on foot binding became the performance of Han women at that time.

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement that rose in the late Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom openly opposed foot binding, but it failed due to many limitations at that time.

During the Revolution of 1911, the Nanjing Provisional Government established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen thought that foot-binding did not conform to women in the new era and made women weak. Therefore, he officially promulgated a law to abolish female foot-binding, and if there are still female foot-binding, they need to pay a fine. As soon as I heard that I had to pay a fine, people at that time seemed to feel the tragic picture of losing money. Under the supervision of fines, the behavior of foot binding gradually disappeared.

So, why not ask for a fine earlier? People are iron, money is steel, and there is no money to panic. If the fine had been raised earlier, perhaps so many girls would not have suffered.

In the TV series "White Deer Plain", there is a ghost bound feet. As soon as Bai Jiaxuan entered the door, she heard the howl of killing pigs, which was creepy. This is his daughter's ghost-bound scream. Bai Jiaxuan went to stop him, and Cao Xian told him, "Don't marry a beggar with ugly feet." Bai Ling kept crying. Bai Jiaxuan was distressed by her daughter and shouted angrily: "Whoever dares to entangle Lingling's feet again, I will cut off her hand."

If everyone's father was like Bai Jiaxuan, there would probably be many more people without hands in ancient times.

In the history of China, foot-binding was the most cruel thing to women, but in foreign countries, there is a morbid aesthetic that is more harmful to people's health than foot-binding-thin waist.

There is a poem in China called "The King of Chu has a thin waist, and many people starve to death in the palace", but in Europe, women also like a thin waist.

In order to keep the waist slim, it is a bad habit in old Europe to tighten the waist with a waist seal. Excessive pursuit of thin waist, tying the belt around the waist, leading to physical deformity, and even some people died.

It is said that the source of corsets is the French court, which is ridiculous. It is said that Queen Josephine of France cheated on her pregnancy and wrapped her abdomen to hide her eyes and ears. In fact, it made her chest high and her waist slim, which became a trend for a while.

The origin of this girdle is really speechless.

Although girding can make a woman's waist thinner, how thin is it? It is thinner than the current A4 waist. It's really worrying. Can this meal be poured? It will change people's ribs and bones, even break the liver, scar will appear on the ribs, it will go deep into the skin, and women will die.

Compared with China's foot binding, waist binding is more harmful. Because foot binding brings the disability of broken foot bones, once the waist is tied too far, it will lead to life-threatening. Too tight waist can kill people, but who cares about society at that time? Everyone will get drunk and make you drunk. You can't change the times, you can only let them change you.

The waist is tied from the doll. Once a girl reaches the age of nine, her parents will gird her daughter. Strong equipment made of steel, leather and wood is worn on girls, and they are squeezed from armpits to hips, which may make them breathless, but just like foot binding, others are girding their waists, but you are not girding your waists. What is it like? The family worked together for their daughter's waist.

In Gone with the Wind, there is a scene of girding the waist. Hao Sijia tried to hold the bedpost and ordered the maid to make her waist thinner.

Compared with the European women in ancient western European movies, today's movies can be called bucket waist. In Europe at that time, people formulated a waist circumference standard. A girl can still hold her waist with her own hands, so this waistline is a normal waistline. At that time, the waist circumference even reached 13 inch, equivalent to 33.03cm now. Elizabeth I relaxed it to 18 inch, but later it was set to 14 inch.

It is difficult for users to take off the girdle and put it on by themselves. Just like foot-binding in ancient China, girls were forced to be elegant and dignified, move slowly, stand up straight and eat little, just like chickens pecking rice.

Girls can't run and jump without permission, they can only sit up straight in their chairs. Just like a beautiful vase on a delicate wooden cabinet, it seems to be a musical instrument for people to play with. Perhaps waist binding is more serious than foot binding in infringing girls' human rights.

This deformed beauty was considered as a symbol of female beauty in Europe at that time, but it is a painful aesthetic feeling in modern times. Imagine what a terrible thing it would be if your internal organs were dislocated, your pelvis was crushed and your ribs were deformed.

Because the harm caused by waist girding is extremely serious, it will cause visceral damage and rib deformity. European women made the final choice, and they chose life between beauty and life: so they abandoned the iron corset and adopted the cloth corset.

At the age of 19 10, the custom of waist-binding gradually dissipated, and the bad habit of waist-binding was gradually abandoned, and women's waist finally returned to an era where they could be dominated by themselves.

In short, between losing weight and health, between beauty and life. I hope everyone will choose the latter, because if there is no healthy body, how can you pursue and enjoy a better life?