We know that after the new emperor ascended the throne in ancient times, ministers from all sides and merchants from the rich side would rack their brains to pay tribute to the emperor, gold jewelry, rare animals, strange stones and rare trees, etc. After Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty ascended the throne, he could sadly spoil the officials of Daozhou, Daozhou belonged to the remote land of the Sui Dynasty, the economy was not developed, and it was impossible to send as much gold jewelry as other regions, and later decided to choose some dwarfs to give to the emperor.
Sending dwarves was not pioneered by Daozhou officials, and there were precedents in previous dynasties and dynasties for officials from all over the world to pay tribute to dwarves, generally paying tribute to some dwarves with well-proportioned figures and good faces for the palace people to appreciate and send. What is important is that some of the dwarves who pay tribute are not born, but artificial, and some black-hearted people will buy the children of poor people, feed them regularly in clay pots from an early age, and their bodies will not grow up, and when some officials need to pay tribute to the emperor, they will sell them to officials at better prices.
Later, when the Officials of Daozhou were selecting dwarves, they found a dwarf selling art on the street called Wang Xing, who was also very willing to enter Beijing to serve the emperor, and later Yang Guang admired Wang Xing's literary talent and quick thinking, and every time he went out on a tour, he would take Wang Xing, and Wang Xing was also loyal to Yang Guang and served the dog and horse.
Yang Guang is the emperor of China's history that is controversial, some of his measures can be said to be a disadvantage at that time, such as digging the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and strengthening the imperial examination, but Yang Guang, who grew up in the palace, was too impatient, the people who built a large number of civil engineering were miserable, when the expedition to Gao Liguo failed and lost hundreds of thousands of troops, the Sui Dynasty rose up in various places and fell into the fires of war, on the way to escape, Yang Guang's guards launched a coup d'état, Yang Guang was forced to hang himself, after Yang Guang's death, Wang Xing also drew his sword and killed himself. Because he was afraid that yang guang would not be accompanied by anyone on the Huangquan Road, no matter what, Wang Xing's loyalty was still worthy of admiration.
To talk about pleasing the emperor, the influence of officials dedicating dwarfs to Chinese history is not large, and the Southern Tang Dynasty Emperor's invention of the wrapped foot has influenced China for a thousand years, the Southern Tang Dynasty Lord Li Yu is a brilliant emperor, and the poems he has written are widely praised, "Ask the king how sad, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward" is his masterpiece, he is a poet who is worshiped by posterity, but he is not a good emperor, indulging in poetry and dance every day, in addition to poetry, the most favorite is to appreciate dance, Li Yu liked to dance for herself the most, once, Li Yu asked her to dance "Step by Step Lotus" after three months, and the dance method of the step-by-step lotus was to embed a lotus made of gold on the lobby, each lotus leaf was only the size of a woman's foot, and then the dancer danced on the lotus.
But the lotus leaves are too small, Miao Niang simply can not stand down, and then Miao Niang thought of forcibly wrapping her feet with cloth, day and night, resulting in broken toes, bent foot surface, but finally can stand down, after which Miao Niang endured pain contact for several months, and finally gave Li Yu jumped into a step-by-step lotus, and later, in the land of China, it gradually formed this perverted small foot culture, with small and curved three-inch golden lotus as the beauty, which is not only the foot but also the freedom of women, It can be said that it is because of the deformity of women caused by the feudal cultural environment, which is very sad, until the Republic of China did not remove the foot-binding culture.