Feudal habits have appeared in the history of all countries in the world, such as in 19th-century Europe, because of the deformed aesthetic and moral kidnapping, there was a custom of templates or metal sheets to fix the corset. In the long run, women have caused serious deformities in their bodies because of their waists, and even lost their lives because of them. In ancient China, there was a similar feudal bad habit, that is, foot binding. Foot binding is also known as foot binding, according to Gao Hongxing's "History of Foot Binding" and many historical materials, the earliest occurrence of foot binding originated in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and the time of its rise was in the Southern Song Dynasty. We know that many of the fashions of ancient times came from the palace, and the same was true of foot binding, and the ruling class of the Song Dynasty played a huge role in it.
"Song History , Five Elements Chronicle " has been recorded : " Lizong Dynasty, the palace people tied their feet straight", in the Song Dynasty, this custom of foot binding has spread to all bureaucrats, and in the Ming Dynasty it became a "national movement", although it was banned in the early Qing Dynasty, but it could not stop the folk trend at that time, and soon after it became an official regulation, all women need to tie their feet, this custom continued until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and finally in 1912 it was explicitly banned by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. But the custom of this matter is prosperous in the folk, so it is difficult to completely abolish it for a while, such as this Liu Niang, her family requires her to wrap her feet, so since she was a child, she has a pair of "three-inch golden lotus" that everyone envies, plus her appearance is relatively good, at the age of 15, she relied on the "three-inch golden lotus" to marry a rich family, became a young grandmother, and usually hardly did anything heavy work.
Grandma Liu, who explained her life in this way, originally thought that foot binding was a very painful thing, but she did not expect to be blessed by misfortune, just because of her small feet, after marrying, her husband was very fond of her, because of the inconvenience of movement, so she had not done any physical work in this life, and the most laborious task may be to get out of bed and sweep the floor. Her status is also very noble, in today's words, that is, marrying into the rich and becoming a veritable young grandmother, living a life of dressing to stretch out her hands and eat to open her mouth, even when she goes out, there are special people carrying a palanquin to pick up and drop off.
After the reform and opening up, the development of tourism has made the village where Liu Niang lives become a tourist area. And a small-footed woman like Liu Niang has become a highlight of the tourist attraction, but despite this, Liu Niang's small feet have only been seen by her husband, even their children. Because small-footed women have received feudal and conservative ideas since childhood, women should obey the three virtues and four virtues, and abide by the feminine way, that is, the parts of their own body are inviolable to anyone except their husbands.
In this way, Liu Niang spent her life under the so-called "traditional virtues". Strange to say, Xiaobian often thinks that if he lives in such a society without human rights one day, he will definitely rise up to resist. Even if he is powerless to return to heaven, he does not want to live under the heavy shackles, preferring to abandon this ridiculous "born like this" in a hundred years. But looking at Liu Niang, who is still alive today, it is well known how ridiculous it sounds to try to single-handedly resist the feudal etiquette of the time. Liu Niang accepted, carrying the heavy accumulation of history all the way, watching those old stereotypes and bad habits of the past flaunting their might collapse in time, which is not another victory.