Summer is coming soon, and people are dressing in pursuit of coolness. Naturally, women are wearing less clothes, but they are more showing off the natural beauty of the body. ——Especially the exquisite bare feet, which are covered by shoes and socks most of the year, are particularly eye-catching.
In fact, women’s feet are a very sexy part, and many literati have praised it in their works. Xie Lingyun, a famous poet in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, praised a woman's white feet with the poem "Which housewife has pity, fate washes her bare feet". One of the poems written by the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "Ci of Yue Women," goes like this: "The children of Wu have grown up, and their eyebrows are full of stars. Their feet are like frost on their clogs, and they don't wear duck-head socks." The poem describes the beautiful folk girls in the Wuyue water town. They do not wear duck-head socks with the toes separated from the thumb and the other four toes as usual. Instead, they wear bare white feet, wearing wooden clogs, walking by the pond, or swinging. On the green water of the boat, people picked lotuses and played. It is said that in ancient times, women's feet were not easily exposed to the outside world and looked very mysterious. This aroused many men's obsession and yearning for women's exquisite feet. Therefore, even though the Tang Dynasty was a very open era, Li Bai could only do it at a certain time and place in the Wuyue water town, when several folk girls picked lotuses and played in the water barefoot - it was not suitable to wear shoes and socks at that time - I was so happy that I wrote this hymn in excitement.
There was even a period when a woman’s feet were tightly wrapped and turned into a three-inch golden lotus. In modern times, the west wind of freedom and equality blows strongly, and letting go has become a symbol and content of women's liberation. The poor three-inch golden lotus returns to its natural form. Women no longer need to twist and turn in the boudoir courtyard, but can walk towards the outside world with healthy steps. Toward a new life and embarking on the path of a new woman. Their figures became the eye-catching and beautiful waves in the May 4th New Culture Movement, and even became the yellow flowers on the battlefield in the smoke of the democratic revolution! After liberation, men and women received equal pay for equal work. Women worked in the fields and went to work like men, and women's feet became stronger. In this century, as Chinese people become more open and affluent, women are beautifying their bodies and feet. Colorful nail polish is applied to their delicate toes. In summer, their feet are naked, wearing novel high-heeled sandals, or simply wearing simple clothes. The slippers make a man's eyes wander from head to toe. Women's feet have gone from mysterious aesthetics to distortions of perverted tastes, then to the pursuit of freedom and practicality in labor, and finally returned to a more advanced aesthetic, completing a spiraling historical cycle.
People also saw the steps of society moving towards civilization