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Footbinding is popular all over the country and is deeply rooted, but few of the women who bind their feet can really know its origin. The custom of this woman's foot binding did not start in the Qing Dynasty, it had to be pushed all the way up, until about the Five Dynasties or the beginning of the Song Dynasty. Anyway, in the Tang Dynasty and before, women did not bind their feet. The prosperity of the wind of foot-binding was in the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, the phenomenon of foot binding may have appeared even earlier.

When it comes to foot binding, let me tell you a legend first. However, I would like to state in advance that this is not a legend that I have made up, but the people who made it up must be those ancestors who have the same opinion as us.

According to legend, the footbinding was handed down from Su Daji, the beloved concubine of the King of Shang. Everyone knows that the legend has it that Suda was a nine-tailed vixen. However, although she was able to transform into a human form at that time, only those two claws could not transform into human feet. She was afraid that the king would find out, so she came up with a clever plan, and she wrapped her feet around a long white cloth. After that, she was afraid that it would be too lonely and eye-catching just to wrap her feet, so she said to the king that women look good in binding their feet, and showed her little feet to the king.

After seeing it, he really felt that the little feet were indeed very cute, wonderful, and fresh, and of course, the main thing was that it could arouse his evil**. So, he began to order that women in the country must bind their feet, and over time, he left a history of women's foot binding.

Legends are legends, and they can't be true, so let's talk about the official history.

So, how did footbinding develop?

Then, Lin Haifeng's true and false were mixed, and he made a complete "foot-binding history" after he was sorted out:

It is said that the reason why women were more reliable in ancient times was that Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, liked to watch women dance on the "golden lotus". Because the golden lotus flower was so small, the dancer had to wrap her feet in white silk and bend her feet to stand on top of the lotus, so that when she danced, she seemed to be more graceful and graceful than usual. This was originally just a dance costume, and it didn't cause any big popularity for the sake of being beautiful for a while.

However, in the Song Dynasty, foot binding began to develop slowly. It was first popular among the women of the Red Mansion. What does the dust woman do, everyone understands. But why did this bad habit come out of them in the first place? The reason is actually quite simple, and it is exactly the same as the "beautiful" legend I mentioned at the beginning about foot binding. Think about it, what is Daji? Vixen.

Hehe, if you have seen or heard Pu Songling's story, you won't know what the fox spirit does, right? Yes, they are specially designed to harm people and men, and they are going to eat up your essence and blood, and they are going to kill you.

The book is back to business, it is from those dusty women that the footbinding gradually spreads to the upper class. In the Song Dynasty, only noble women were bound their feet, and ordinary women would not wrap them. And at that time, women's requirements for foot binding were only to wrap their feet into a straight and beautiful look, so that it would not make such a fuss as our later generations, which hurt the muscles and bones.

No matter what it is, everyone should understand when they hear this, whether it is an upper-class woman or a dusty woman, they don't have to work hard to support their families with men. They are either pampered, or they compete for favor, or they are ...... Anyway, it is naturally for one purpose, that is, to try to show his so-called charm in front of those men, or to put it simply, just to make it more convenient to seduce men.

It should also be said here that the women of ordinary people's families have to go out often, and they should pay more attention to their faces, for fear of being ridiculed by others, they want face. Noble women and dusty women are shameless. All they need is satisfaction and money.

Of course, I'm not here to mean to insult those dusty women. Everyone understands in their hearts that many women are helpless in one way or another, and they are not willing to do this. Moreover, among these dusty women, there are also fierce women who sacrifice their lives for the pursuit of happiness, and everyone must know Du Shi Niang, who is angry and sinking into the treasure chest, she is a good person.

However, this question is not our main contradiction, and now we only look at the appearance, which can uncover the true meaning of the ugly custom of foot binding.

Believe it or not. However, perhaps some of you will know that there is still a popular game in the Red Mansion under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is, a game called "Xingjiu". This game originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, in many brothels feasts, this game called "drinking" was popular, and the most prominent thing from beginning to end was the little feet of the prostitutes and the small shoes that they had just taken off from their feet. The prostitutes put their glasses in the prostitute's shoes to pass and pour and drink, and were proud or excited to have the opportunity to drink from the glasses in the prostitute's shoes.

Strange, don't the shoes stink? Is it cool to drink with a stench?

Hehe, I haven't seen that kind of scene, so I'm just guessing, don't laugh, I guess the shoes may have been scented, otherwise everyone will lose their appetite. He added this because he saw his wife, who was busy taking notes sitting behind the official, and his wife's face was pale.

After that, many folk degenerate women were naturally not willing to lag behind, so they tried their best to follow suit. Of course, it is often at this most critical moment that some indispensable characters should appear, that is, some hypocrites of the so-called canonical literati appear, and they begin to add fuel to the fire.

It may be more appropriate to call these sour and rotten literati of the past generations rogue literati. They don't want to serve the country for the sake of the national economy and the people's livelihood, or to make suggestions, these things that can't do anything but complain about their greatness, are so bored that they are so interested that they regard the discussion of small feet as a kind of "knowledge" with deep roots. They do not hesitate to write articles, carefully evaluate them, and take humility as pleasure, but they are afraid that they do not clearly interpret the aesthetic components and functions of men playing with small feet.

For example, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was a shameless rogue literati named Fang Xuan, who claimed to be some kind of "Dr. Xianglian", and wrote an article entitled "Xianglian Pinzao", and took great pains to divide the little feet of the foot-bound woman into five styles, nine products and eighteen kinds.

It's a pity that we didn't have the chance to meet him. He was a fluke. If this scoundrel can get mixed up until now, I promise, just like a military parade, this official will call everyone to pay homage to his wife, and see if such a poor bastard who understands the beauty of small feet can really marry a lady with excellent feet. Actually, if you don't look at it, you know that just like him, that is, a dream, think about it, a woman from a good family will follow him?

Regardless of his, in short, it is with these bastards that the climate can be formed by foot binding, and gradually become a common so-called custom of social women, a sick aesthetic.

Here I would also like to state that this extremely sick habit originated in our Han people, and as a result, it has brought about other fraternal peoples.

Of course, it cannot be denied that beauty is a crucial thing for women. It is an important means and way to get a better life, as for whether you can walk, maybe it's still behind, maybe who cares? Who is to blame? Ignorance, ignorance, can only complain that these poor women are too ignorant and ignorant. Unconsciously, the women mixed themselves with the dust girls of the Red Mansion, and they thought they were beautiful.

Alas! Is......

The above is that women were inadvertently led astray by those hooligan literati with ulterior motives and became a "thing" for men to play with.

Let's not forget that foot binding is a very painful thing for the woman herself. The so-called "beauty" of small feet is premised on the destruction of women's bodies and minds. The method of wrapping the little feet is through guò artificial force, which savagely causes the phalanges of the woman's feet to be dislocated or fractured, and they are folded on the soles of the feet, and then wrapped tightly with a footcloth layer by layer. Moreover, if it is not done well, it may cause disability, or cause death, and gradually become infected with symptoms such as arthritis in adulthood. Isn't there a folk saying that "a pair of small feet, a jar of tears", which is actually a concentrated reflection of the suffering that women have suffered for thousands of years.

And once the natural feet are wrapped into a "three-inch golden lotus", women must be very inconvenient in terms of labor and social interaction, and naturally they are greatly restricted, they can only stay at home, circle around the pot, and even stand and walk must support the wall against the wall.

In this way, not only is the so-called "male outside, female protagonist inside" that everyone is accustomed to throughout the ages become natural, but also "men are strong and women are weak" has become a fact. If a woman has any dissatisfaction, resistance, or elopement, etc., it is even more difficult, she can't run, and her feet are too small. So, the woman could only swallow her anger and be at the mercy of her. Men seem to feel safe, satisfied, and have face.

What is it? This kind of so-called "beauty" that violates nature and health and is based on the destruction of women's bodies is not only an extreme distortion, trampling and perversion of beauty, but also a patriarchal ideology. It is purely in the oppression and control of women, and men feel that they have really found a strong "self", which makes this perverted behavior really continue smoothly......

After Lin Haifeng finished talking about this large set of "official history" of foot-binding, he looked at all the officials attending the meeting with a gloomy face, "How about it, I think everyone should understand, foot-binding is actually the specialty of the prostitutes in the Red Mansion, now, do you still think that this kind of thing happens in your own home, or is it normal around you?" I would say, or must say, that in today's day, footbinding, like opium, is the two great disgraces of our nation. Smoking opium, people overseas will say that we are sick men. If you continue to keep your foot, what will people say? ”

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