In the 70th chapter of this book, "Poison Scheme, Sleeping Shoes to Blame the Trouble", it is mentioned that in the past, after the girls who bound their feet untied the footcloth at night, they would put a pair of sleeping shoes made of double silk cloth on the three-inch golden lotus.

"Sleeping shoes", as the name suggests, are shoes that are worn while sleeping.

In addition to preventing toe sagging and making the foul smell on the little feet not easy to leak, sleeping shoes, as a by-product of ancient Chinese women's foot binding behavior, have always been placed on more imaginative significance than actual function.

Some books that describe the history of love in ancient times and about the binding of women's feet in ancient times mention that the narrow and small shoes can play a role in consolidating the favor of men to a certain extent.

In the four famous novels "Dream of Red Mansions", it is mentioned that Qingwen is bound to her feet among the maids in Jiafu.

In the seventieth episode of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Baoyu watched several girls serving him in the room frolicking in the early morning, and saw that "that Qingwen only wore a green courtyard silk jacket, red clothes and red nightshoes, and wore her hair, and she looked at Baoyu stupidly."

Maybe it was Qingwen who loved to wear the red satin nightshoes that were only preferred by the women in the courtyard in the old days, which was disliked by Mrs. Wang, and she called Qingwen 'fox charmer' everywhere.

Because these nightshoes are shoes that women only wear when they sleep at night, they are extremely private, even more intimate than underwear such as belly pocket clothes.

However, Mr. Lu Xun once mentioned that Chinese "as soon as I see a white arm...... Think of illegitimate children. The imagination of the Chinese is only so advanced here" (from Lu Xun's Anthology. That's it. Little Miscellaneous Feelings...... That's right, that's what Mr. said)

Unfortunately, Mr. said that the Chinese of the old days simply used their imagination to the point of horror in terms of sleeping shoes.

In the 19th chapter of the Qing Dynasty's only novel "Love Dreams", Miss Qin opened the brocade and saw that there seemed to be a base under the mat inside the bed.

When I took it out and looked at it, it was a pair of red sleeping shoes, pointed and cute, and I wore them.

That (Miss Qin) was suspicious. I thought to myself: Didn't he marry him? I went to my house in winter, but I said that I was not married for a while.

When he saw a pair of worn women's sleeping shoes, he immediately suspected that his lover was secretly marrying his wife behind his back, completely ignoring whether someone deliberately used her shoes to frame him.

This kind of thing may seem ridiculous to modern people, but the ancients did not.

If the relatives in the back house accidentally lose their sleeping shoes, it is possible to be suspected of stealing by their husband.

To paraphrase today's point of view, these sleeping shoes are almost equivalent to today's high-waisted black stockings with cut-out lace, if you find such a pair of socks under the mattress of your husband's boyfriend that is not your own...... Wow, I'm afraid there will be hundreds of thousands of words of family emotional drama next.

Cough...... Let's move on to this sleeping shoe.

In the famous three popular novels of the Ming Dynasty, after Pan Jinlian married Ximenqing, she accidentally lost her sleeping shoes one day, and even beat several maids with sticks to go out to find shoes for herself.

Later, an idler named Chen Jingji came to the door with Pan Jinlian's sleeping shoes to blackmail, and refused to return the sleeping shoes when Pan Jinlian promised a bribe of a pair of gold circles (gold bracelets), but asked Pan Jinlian for the sweat towel tucked on his chest, in order to flirt and hook up.

It can be seen from here that even in the eyes of Pan Jinlian, who can be called a typical opposite, losing her sleeping shoes is the number one disaster in the world, let alone an ordinary woman.

By the way, since these sleeping shoes are used to cover the odor emitted by the ulcer wound of the little foot, it is natural to fill the interlayer with some sterilizing powders and spices.

For example, in the 22nd episode of "Dream of Red Mansions": Caiyun took the shoes and looked at them carefully, but he just snorted his lips and said: "I really love to kill." ’

Then he sniffed and said, 'It smells so good! ’

Ping'er smiled: "Then you can use it as a fragrant bun to hang!" ’

Caiyun asked Qingyun: 'What kind of incense is in the shoes of your grandmother and aunts?' ’

Qingyun said, 'I don't know, ask them what they did.' ’

Zhou's mother said: "Let's make shoes, we just want to put alum powder, and the fragrant recipe refuses to be passed on." ’”

It's a pity that the recipe for this spice didn't pass down.

But in addition to the recipe of this incense powder, there is another thing that I am very interested in.

Also in this time, the author asked Zhou's mother, who is in charge of making sleeping shoes in Jiafu, through Caiyun's mouth: "How many pairs of such shoes do we make in a year in our house?" ”

And Zhou's mother replied: "Twenty or thirty pairs of shoes in a year is enough!" ”

Are you surprised?

Even a wealthy family like the Jia family, which is full of flowers and brocade and cooking oil in a blazing fire, and a Daguan Garden where there are hundreds of famous and surnamed female dependents and maids, there are less than 20 people bound their feet.

So much so that Zhou's mother makes twenty or thirty pairs of sleeping shoes a year to replace them, at least she doesn't bind her feet to the colorful cloud above.

That's why he pouted while praising Zhou's mother's nightshoes and said: "I really love to kill."

Even the few maids who were specially allocated to serve Jia Baoyu Jia, the first person in Jiafu in the future, were only Qingwen who was bound to her little feet, so that she was targeted by Mrs. Wang everywhere, and secretly scolded: "This fox girl! ”

Let's make a big splash.

In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, not only did the ladies of large families not bind their feet much, but it can even be said that almost all wealthy ladies did not bind their feet.

This is supported by archaeological evidence, according to the existing tomb excavation records, in all the tombs of husband and wife in the Qing Dynasty, the proportion of female foot binding is less than 10%!!

Why is that?

Answer, to be able to receive the commandment!

When the emperor of the dynasty is sometimes happy, because your husband is doing a good job for the royal family, he will give you the title of a few life women.

According to the Qing Dynasty, the noble lady who was given the title of woman should wear a neat flag to enter the palace (if you don't enter the palace, you have to kneel to thank the canonization), and the most special thing in the Qing Dynasty court flag costume is the pair of flags with high bottoms as if stepping on stilts.

This kind of flag basin with a high bottom can't even be stepped on by a woman with a foot in the sky, if it is worn by a woman with small feet, then you have to fall and gnaw mud if you can't walk two steps!

What is the sin of this gentleman's misdemeanor, you might as well think about it yourself.

For the sake of her daughter's future fate, the big families in the past have never supported foot binding, for example, in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", there are many male owners who are reluctant to let their girls suffer because of foot binding, and ask her to put her feet down and no longer bind her feet.

In fact, in the past, this kind of foot-binding behavior was a bad habit that seriously harmed the physical and mental health of women compatriots, and it should indeed be thrown into the dustbin of history.

But foot binding is actually the embodiment of a deformed and pathological aesthetic of people in the past, not only the ancients, but also many modern people have stepped into this sick aesthetic pit, and even the number is more than that!

Just imagine, when a hundred years from now, people look again at today's high-risk cosmetic surgeries such as filling fillers on the face, injecting silicone gel into the chest, filling the bridge of the nose with plastic materials, cutting the eyelids, shaving the chin, and even cutting off part of the jawbone at the risk of infection and disfigurement.

What is the difference between this and the bad habit of tying feet with iron rods to break the tender foot bones and then bend them and wrap them with a white cloth a hundred years ago?

I'm really curious, is there really a man with a knife and a gun behind these beauty-loving girls who are so eager for plastic surgery to force them to do it?

I only hope that a hundred years from now, when people talk about today's many cosmetic surgeries, they will no longer be able to deduct men's rights and oppress women's rights at every turn, and women will be forced to use their own bodies to please men under men's oppression, but will be able to look at this matter from the perspective of a third party, truly enlightened and fair.

In a word, people will change, especially aesthetics!

It is possible that two hundred years of worldly recognized beauties will scare modern people into nightmares at night! This is no joke!

I really want to ask you, you are holding your mobile phone and reading with relish, what do you think about foot binding and plastic surgery?