In feudal society, men are inferior to women, women are men's vassals, there is no social status to speak of, the so-called "women for their own pleasure" is a joke, because men are inferior to women, women have no right to choose freely, everything must go with men's preferences.
Because of this, women in feudal society often make some "amazing" moves in order to please men, forming strange customs! And this is regardless of the country, as long as it is a feudal society!
Let's take a look at what are the incomprehensible customs in the era of male superiority and female inferiority in feudal society!
The first is China's "foot binding"
"Foot binding", also known as "wrapping small feet", began in the Northern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Southern Song Dynasty, and ended in 1912 when sun Yat-sen, the provisional president of the Republic of China, issued the "Ban Foot Binding Order", during the history of nearly a thousand years, there are countless women who suffer for it!
When women start walking, they must be prepared to "wrap their feet", the process of "foot binding" is extremely cruel, simply put, the four toes on the outside of the foot are curled up, and the outer longitudinal arch part on the sole of the foot is bent, during which the joint is twisted, and the transverse bow and longitudinal bow on the foot are twisted to the maximum limit, and if the joint is bent to the limit, sprains and dislocations are almost inevitable!
During this period, women have to suffer great pain, generally until adulthood, the soles of the feet can be fixed to stop foot binding, which is equivalent to changing the normal bone growth of the human body by external forces, which is really inhumane!
The reason why women want to "wrap their feet" stems from the "obsession" of men on small feet in feudal society, the ancients believed that women's feet were the best three inches, which can be called "golden lotus", so there are three inches of golden lotus, more than four inches has become "iron lotus", poor quality!
The ancients' fascination with the little foot reached the level of "perversion", and Li Bai once wrote "Yue Nu Zi" to praise the small foot as "a long dry Wu child, eyebrows and stars and moons." The ass is like frost, and does not wear crow's head socks, "Even the great literary heroes are not exempt from vulgarity, let alone others!"
This is followed by the European corset
Presumably, everyone was impressed by a scene in the movie "Gone with the Wind": the heroine Scarlett grabbed the bedpost hard and asked the maid to help her tie her waist a little thinner, a little thinner. This is not a cinematic invention, nineteenth-century European women did have the custom of "corseting"!
"Corset" originated from the European court in the nineteenth century, when the bra had not yet appeared, the noblewomen of high society felt that the chest "collapsed" was not pretty, so they tied silk around the waist, and the middle was supported by hard objects such as animal bones and wood to achieve the role of "thin waist", "straight chest", "display jewelry", initially only popular in high society, and then gradually evolved into a "fashion" throughout Europe.
"Corset waist" is similar to "wrapping small feet", both are external forces to change the normal bone growth of the human body, but the harm of "corset" is far greater than "wrapping small feet", and China's nearly thousand years of "foot binding" history has not heard of a person dying because of "foot binding".
In europe, in just over a hundred years, countless people have died because of "corsets", and many people have even been penetrated through the chest by hard objects around the waist, piercing the internal organs, and the death is extremely terrible!
Finally, there are japanese black teeth
According to the current aesthetic standards, teeth should be as white as possible, and having a neat whitening tooth is one of the criteria for measuring beauty, but in Japan's Heian period, women were popular in "black teeth".
According to the "Tale of Genji", the Japanese use tea, wine, vinegar, sugar mixed, added burned iron filings, after several days of fermentation, and then heated and boiled to form a special black substance, and then apply this black substance to the teeth, the darker the better!
Japanese "black teeth" custom is to cooperate with the "white face makeup" and was born, Japanese women have the custom of white face, but the face is white, it will appear that the teeth are very yellow, and the Japanese teeth are mostly crooked, very untidy, so in order to cover up the defects of the teeth, Japanese women simply blacken the teeth.
Compared with the first two customs, Japan's "black teeth" should be the least harmful to the human body, but it is also the most difficult to understand, after all, it is too different from the current aesthetic standards, it can be said that it is "contrary to the road"!
brief summary:
Whether it is China's "wrapping small feet", Europe's "corset" or Japan's "black teeth" are all products of feudal society, are women in order to please men and carry out "self-harm" behavior, the root of which lies in the social status of "male superiority and female inferiority", with the collapse of the feudal system, the gradual opening of the social atmosphere, these bad habits have become the past tense, annihilated in the long river of history!
It is worth mentioning that these three bad habits originally originated in high society, and then went up and down, and ordinary people began to follow suit, gradually forming a social custom, which shows how significant the leading role of "role models" is, although modern society does not have the so-called high society.
However, the attitude of the official and the media drives the trend of society, which requires the official, especially the media, to face up to the role of the role model and always carry forward the positive energy!
References: The Tale of Genji, Echikoshi