Why do women today have their feet bound?

Han women’s foot binding first appeared in the court of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It was also practiced in the Song Dynasty, but it was limited to certain scholar-bureaucrat families and brothels, and the degree of foot binding was not comparable to that of later generations. Working women in the Song Dynasty did not bind their feet. In the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Mu Nianci, a woman from the world of martial arts, turned out to have small feet, and her golden lotus boots were taken away by Yang Kang. Haha, it seems that Mr. Jin Yong has a special liking for the three-inch golden lotus. Is he a foot fetish? Okay, let's continue.

After the Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols, the Han people became the lowest slaves. In desperation, the Han people persisted and expanded their small feet as a national cultural feature. But it's still not popular, and Mongolians don't pay much attention to it. The Mongol rule distorted the Han spirit and national character in an invisible and profound way. The so-called "There is no China after Yashan" refers to the decline of the spiritual world of the Han people and the destruction of the essence of Han civilization. The Han people in the Ming Dynasty could only rely on the vulgar grassroots to recover. Zhu Yuanzhang's weakness was obvious. For example, when Wen Tianxiang met Kublai Khan, he insisted on only bowing and not kneeling. Because according to Han etiquette, when ministers meet the emperor, they bow to him. Only on particularly important occasions, such as ancestor worship, enthronement, etc., do people kneel. In fact, the ministers of the Song Dynasty have been degraded compared to those of the Zhou, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties. They had to stand to talk to the emperor, while the previous generation had to sit down to talk. The harm caused by barbarian serfdom is often underestimated by people today. As for the Qing Dynasty, they knelt three times and kowtowed at any time and anywhere. The master was wise and the slave deserved death. It was a shame and was thrown into Russia. Kangxi's special envoy also knelt down when he saw a Russian petty official, because the Russian officials were Kangxi's guests, and Kangxi's special envoy himself was just Kangxi's slave. Chinese ethics and culture are no longer representative of the Manchu and Qing dynasties.

Small feet were not popular in the Ming Dynasty. The small feet in Jin Ping Meili were actually a drunken and decadent hobby of the rich. For example, when the emperor of the Ming Dynasty selected his concubines, he also required those with bound feet to be excluded, because small feet were not a characteristic of women from good families.

The Qing Dynasty initially banned foot binding in order to create the illusion that Manchu and Han people were similar. However, the upper-class bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats who defected to the Manchus owned many women with bound feet. If the ban on foot binding was too strict, it would not be conducive to uniting the bureaucratic class. As for shaving one's hair, the lower classes resisted fiercely. In fact, banning foot binding is definitely easier than shaving hair. However, the Manchus chose to ban foot binding just for words, while shaving hair was carried out with all their strength, at the cost of tens of millions of Han lives, interrupting the Han nationality. spine. What's more, the Manchus later discovered that foot binding was helpful in weakening the Han people's ability to resist, so they just let it go. The aesthetic customs of the upper class had a subtle influence on the lower class, and with the connivance of the Manchu government, foot binding was completely popular in the Qing Dynasty, including every working woman, whose feet were disabled since childhood. Women in the Eight Banners actually despise the foot-binding of the Han people. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", they often call people "little hoofs".

Foot binding is an absolutely bad habit. It was Chairman Mao who really eliminated small feet. We should thank Chairman Mao for his great contribution to the liberation of women. As for bad habits, they are not unique to the Han people. The European habit of waist-binding is no less harmful than foot-binding. The waist has been girded since childhood until it looks like a wasp with a thin waist, which is scary and disgusting to look at. The kidneys and uterus were destroyed. I'm afraid some elites don't dare to say that Europeans are inferior. Long-necked women in a certain Southeast Asian country, lip rings in Africa, and female circumcision are all bad habits. Korean women have to hang their breasts out. You can see it in old photos. Authentic Korean clothes have to hang their breasts, which is considered a bad habit. Some survivors of the Qing Dynasty also found out through research that Nurhaci had a high nose bridge and blue eyes - well, fortunately, white people dominate the world now. If black people dominate the world, what would the research look like? In short, it is necessary to reflect on the bad habits of the nation and eradicate them. But if you insult your own nation because of this, always talk about its bad nature, and drag out your ancestors to whip their corpses, you are an inferiority complex and a masochist.

--------The complete popularity of foot binding was in the Qing Dynasty. Regardless of the scale of foot binding or the degree of foot binding deformity, "We Daqing" can be said to be unprecedented, and its "success" is unparalleled.

The "New Deal" of the late Qing Dynasty also emphasized the four insistences such as "clothing and hairstyles cannot be changed". The Qing Dynasty concentrated all the "beautiful" things in the world.