Foot binding is a bad habit in feudal society.
In ancient times, there were many stories and legends about women's foot-binding, but some scholars pointed out through research that China ancient women's foot-binding rose in the Northern Song Dynasty, and China women did not bind their feet before the Five Dynasties.
Therefore, the more developed the feudal society, the deeper the bondage to women.
It is difficult for women to get married without foot binding, and most of them are poor. Women who want to engage in agricultural activities and make a living have no foot binding.
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Do you know what it means for women not to bind their feet?
Because the feet are small, it is inconvenient to walk and can't work, so most rich girls are bound feet. Others are too young to walk, so they can only be carried away, also known as Miss Hug, a completely naive girl ~! Foot wrapping can also affect physiology. Like Gu Hongming, he likes to smell his feet.
What do ancient women mean by foot-binding?
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 built 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, Taiping old man wrote
Why don't women wrap their feet now?
Because you don't have to stay indoors, the three-inch golden lotus moves around, you can't work, you can't go outside, and the key process is very painful and inhuman.
What will happen to ancient women without foot binding?
According to archaeological and historical records, no dynasty made "foot binding" a legal provision.
"Foot-binding" is a secular tradition of feudal people. There are historical records of not binding feet in all previous dynasties.
So, what are the consequences of not binding feet, or what is the punishment?
Conclusion: It is difficult for women who don't bind their feet to get married.
What will happen to ancient women without foot binding?
In the Song Dynasty, women's foot-binding became popular. In the Yuan Dynasty, the situation continued to develop. In the Ming Dynasty, foot binding became more popular. If a woman binds her feet, she will be very painful. As the saying goes, "a pair of little feet, a jar of tears". But if a girl doesn't bind her feet and has a pair of healthy and normal feet, that is, the so-called "Tianzu" at that time, she will suffer from cold eyes and social oppression. A secular woman who doesn't bind her feet is bound to be abandoned by her husband. Even nuns in temples, despite their opposition to foot-binding, will inevitably get into trouble for not doing so.
The rulers of the Qing dynasty just entered the customs, thinking that women's foot binding was vulgar, and it was forbidden from the second year of Shunzhi. In the seventh year of Kangxi (A.D. 1668), Minister Ke was exempted from the ban, and the people could publicly bind their feet again. Women who entered the customs also followed suit. When I arrived in Qianlong, I repeatedly issued a decree forbidding flag girls to bind their feet. As a result, the flag girl finally saved her "feet", while the Han girl was like a foot fetish, and her feet were entangled and out of control.
What does foot binding mean?
In the past, a bad habit was to wrap girls' feet tightly with long strips of cloth to make them slim and lead to deformity of their feet.
What does it mean for women to bind their feet in the old society of China?
Foot-binding is a bad habit in ancient China, that is, wrapping a woman's feet with cloth and silk, making it a small and sharp "three-inch golden lotus". "Three-inch golden lotus" once became an important aesthetic condition for ancient women in China. However, when did ancient women's foot-binding begin? Why is the foot-binding called "Golden Lotus"? But it remains a mystery.
Legend of the origin of foot binding
There are different opinions about the origin of foot binding. Some say it began in the Sui Dynasty, some say it began in the Tang Dynasty, and some say it began in the Five Dynasties. Some people even say that Yu's wife and da ji in Xia and Shang Dynasties were both small feet. It can be said that there are different opinions and no one can agree.
China ancient myths and legends do have such traces. Legend has it that Dayu married Tu Shanshi's daughter and gave birth to a child when he was in charge of water control. Tu Shan barren woman is a fox spirit with small feet; He also said that da ji, the concubine of the late Yin Dynasty, was also a fox, or a pheasant, but her feet didn't get better, so she wrapped them in cloth. Because of da ji's love, all the women in the palace followed her example and held back. Of course, these are just folk myths and legends, which contain more romantic elements and are not enough to prove that women bound their feet at that time.
Foot-binding began in Sui Dynasty and also originated from folklore. According to legend, when Yang Di went to Jiangdu, he recruited hundreds of beautiful women to pull fibers for him. A woman named Wu Yueniang was chosen. She hated Yang-ti's tyranny, so she asked her father, who was a blacksmith, to make a lotus petal knife three inches long and one inch wide, and wrap it under her feet with a long cloth, and at the same time, the smaller the foot, the better. Then carved a lotus on the sole, and printed a beautiful lotus in one step when walking. Emperor Yang Di was very happy when he saw the queen, so he called her to his side to admire her little feet. Wu Yueniang slowly untied the foot cloth, suddenly pulled out a lotus petal knife and stabbed Yang Di. Emperor Yang Di flashed by quickly, but his arm was stabbed. Wu Yueniang saw that the assassination failed, so he threw himself into the river. Later, Emperor Yang Di issued a decree: No matter how beautiful a woman is, "foot-binding women will not be selected" in future beauty contests. However, in order to commemorate the mother of the moon, folk women have bound their feet. At this point, the wind of women's foot binding has intensified.
Foot-binding began in the Five Dynasties and originated from concubines in Li Houzhu in the Southern Tang Dynasty. She is beautiful and versatile. She is good at singing and dancing. Li Houzhu specially made a six-foot-tall golden lotus, decorated with jewels and ribbons, and ordered her to tie her feet with silk to make them slightly bend into crescent shapes. Then she put on plain socks and danced on the lotus stage to make the dance more beautiful.
Foot-binding has been recorded in the Song Dynasty.
However, some scholars have pointed out through research that foot-binding of ancient women in China rose in the Northern Song Dynasty, and women in China did not do it before the Five Dynasties. Su Dongpo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote the word "Bodhisattva Man" and lamented foot binding. "Don't cherish step by step lotus, worry about wearing socks to Ling Bo; I saw the dance in the air without a trace. Stealing the palace is as stable as Mount Tai, and it is a double drop; It should be hard to say that it is wonderful. It must be seen from the palm of your hand. " It can also be called the first poem dedicated to foot binding in the history of China's poetry. It should be noted that the writing of foot-binding poems depends on the appearance of foot-binding customs, which shows that foot-binding customs did appear in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, women's foot-binding became more common. Even at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, "little feet" had become a general term for women. However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, women's foot-binding was not popular, and it was mainly confined to the upper class, and the social concept of foot-binding was not accepted by everyone. At the same time, the custom of foot-binding spread from the north to the south, about the time when the Song Dynasty moved south.
Foot-binding in Song Dynasty is different from the three-inch golden lotus in later generations. According to historical records, foot binding in the Song Dynasty was to "straighten" your feet without bending, which was called "getting on the horse" at that time. The shoes used are called "Wrong in the End", and the soles are very sharp and consist of two colors. At present, this kind of foot-binding shoes has been found in archaeology. From the archaeological findings, it is speculated that the feet wrapped by these shoes are bigger than those later.
Mongolian aristocrats did not bind their feet at first, but they did not oppose the habit of binding their feet. On the contrary, they still hold an appreciation attitude. In this way, the wind of foot-binding continued to develop in the Yuan Dynasty, and even the concept of not being ashamed of foot-binding appeared at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, women's foot-binding continued to develop in a slender direction, but there were still many people who did not, especially in southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lingnan areas. In the Ming dynasty, the wind of women's foot-binding entered a prosperous period and developed rapidly in various places. When Zhang invaded Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty, women were small and piled up into mountains, which were called Jinlianfeng. This shows that Sichuan women's foot binding is flourishing. This period has certain requirements for the shape of foot binding. Women's feet should not only be small, but also shrink to three inches, and they should be bowed and wrapped in the shape of corn.
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