Why do women bind their feet when they are old?

For a long time in history, women suffered, that is, women bound their feet. For now, this is a bad social habit, but at that time, it may be a popular beauty and a status symbol, just like women are having plastic surgery now.

Foot binding began in the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Ming dynasty, there was even a saying of "three-inch golden lotus", so you can imagine how painful it was.

When I was a child, I remember my grandmother still bound her feet. I didn't know why at the time. I also asked my grandmother, and she just said when foot binding was popular. If you don't do this, people will laugh at you. I didn't know until I read the history books when I grew up that foot binding was a feudal custom in the historical period at that time, which can be said to be a symbol of female beauty. If a woman binds her feet now, it will be a joke. What is really popular in what era? Including the old people in the village and foot binding.

Women's foot-binding is closely related to China's Confucianism for thousands of years. Confucianism emphasizes the ethics of three obedience and four virtues, which has great constraints on women. As the saying goes, "a woman without talent is virtue", and at that time, women were not allowed to read and write. The so-called royal aristocrats and rich ladies in the upper class are all small feet and status symbols.

Foot-binding brings great pain to women. The first is the pain caused by bone deformation. Sometimes you can't even walk Secondly, it is even more troublesome to have a baby during pregnancy. Many women have miscarriages because they lose control when walking. What is more painful is mental torture. With the development of society, it goes without saying that women who bound their feet in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were sneered at in the process of modernization.