China is a country that pays attention to inheritance, and many of our modern cultures follow the ancient culture, but not all cultures have been passed down to today, and many cultures that are not suitable for the development of the times have been eliminated in the development of history. As the last dynasty in China, the Qing Dynasty is the most impressive, and the Chinese in the eyes of Westerners is almost based on the image of the Qing Dynasty, with men's big braids and women's golden lotus feet, which is the characteristic of China in the eyes of Westerners.
Foot binding is a bad habit in ancient China, for the first appearance of foot binding in the history of controversy, but at least it has been passed down for thousands of years, women in ancient times low status, they do not need to go out to fight, can only be at home to teach their husbands and children, in order to cater to the aesthetics of men, so this custom appears. The growth of bones will change due to external changes, but the whole process is very painful, the need for a woman to be very young, the mother is wrapped in a tight strip of cloth on her feet, in order to limit the development of bones, with age, the bones have completely changed, growing into the desired three-inch golden lotus.
Almost all women are inevitable in this process, in the eyes of the ancients there is a feudal idea, big feet will be discriminated against, and not married, mothers in order to make their daughters more beautiful, will be when the child grows the body of the foot. We have always believed that all women are bound by feet, but in the Qing Dynasty, there was such a phenomenon that there were two kinds of women who would not be forced to wrap their feet.
The Qing Dynasty was Manchu into the customs, so for this feudal custom of the Han people, they did not adopt, this is the bad habit of the Han people, and the Manchus grew up in the steppe, whether it is a man or a woman is raised on horseback, and this custom will restrict the freedom of those women, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty also ordered the abolition of foot binding, but because this concept has taken root in the hearts of the Han people, so there was no effect in the early days, but they will not require Manchu women to bind their feet.
There is also a kind of person is a Hakka woman in the south, the area where the Hakka people used to live was barren and inconvenient, and it was almost isolated from the outside world, so the people here were almost unaffected by the changes in the government outside. Hakka women work in the mountains all day, chop wood to pick wild vegetables, and it is difficult for small feet to walk on the flat ground, not to mention the mountain road, in the eyes of the Hakka, the most beautiful woman who can work, manage her big feet and small feet.
This bad habit of foot binding is actually imposed on the next generation by the older generation, after suffering great pain, coupled with all kinds of discrimination in society, this kind of foot binding takes root in the heart, and then imposed on the next generation, just like this generation, from forced to active "harm", fortunately in the late Qing Dynasty Cixi abolished foot binding again, with the emergence of revolutionaries, slowly this bad habit was eliminated.