She married into a large family by relying on the "three-inch golden lotus", and the pain was unbearable every time she washed her feet, but her husband liked it very much
It should be difficult to say that it should be difficult, and it must be seen from the palm of the hand. --Song Sushi, "Bodhisattva Man Yongzu"
Liu Niang sat on a stool and cried, and when the next person unwrapped her wrapping cloth, she kept crying. Now that she is married to someone else's wife, crying is actually not good, and her husband's family is not insufficient for her, but her feet are painful, and every time she opens her feet to wash her feet, it hurts more and more, so she can't help but cry all the time. The next person laughed at her, saying that she was a 15-year-old girl, and she was still like a child.
This was not the first time she cried, she remembered that when she was 5 years old, her father and mother clamped down on her hands and feet, and when she forcibly wrapped and sewed the cloth, she cried heart-wrenching, she had heard before that someone had died of foot necrosis because of foot binding, so she cried more and more horribly, but her parents were not soft, and her little feet would always be so small.
Liu Niang thought of this sadly, unable to let the next person clean their feet and then wrapped the cloth back, just at this time her royal husband came in, as soon as she saw her feet, she frowned and smiled, and saw her tears ripple, and immediately fluttered: "Crying what? I think it looks good. This was not the first time that Wang's husband had said such a thing, his happiness was always based on her pain, and Liu Niang couldn't help but feel a pang of resentment in her heart.
Thinking about the requirements of the king's husband when he chose his wife, how his parents had worked so hard to wrap their feet according to that requirement, and how painful it was to reshape their feet again, she gritted her teeth. However, Liu Niang couldn't say anything, because she was only a small household, and at first it was impossible for her to marry into the Hao family's royal family, if it weren't for this king's husband who was interested in this pair of small feet, she should now only be able to give a concubine to a small commoner in a small place.
In fact, in the context of that era, there is definitely not only Liu Niang in this situation, after all, foot binding is speculated to have arisen in the late Northern Song Dynasty according to historical data, when it was still a symbol of nobility, only the princess of the royal family would wrap her feet, and later slowly became popular with the palace women, so the "History of the Song Dynasty" recorded that: Lizong Dynasty, palace people tied their feet straight.
But "upward and downward effect", the ignorant people feel that this is the aesthetic direction of the ruler, so there is no opinion to start following the trend, foot binding from the royal family from the palace to the people, from the princess to the county lord to the people's daughter. In addition, there are literati who have contributed to the situation and made the small feet into learning, Su Shi was the first to write three-inch golden lotus poems, and Xin Zhiyi also had "pale yellow bow-like shoes are small, and the waist and limbs are only afraid of the wind blowing down"
Foot binding in the Ming Dynasty period has been nearly morbid, reflected in foot binding has become a sign of social status and rank nobility, at that time beggars can not wrap feet, rural people can not wrap feet, some low-status technical personnel can not be foot binding, there are more verses about foot binding, the ruler still has an incomprehensible hobby in this regard, Ming Wuzong beauty pageant depends on the foot.
At first, the Qing Emperor Taiji was strongly opposed to foot binding, because this behavior was like a disease, with a very strong contagious force, the Qing Dynasty was afraid that its own people would also follow the Han people to wrap their feet, but in the end it was still forbidden, the Jurchens were also assimilated, and even reached a peak at this time, if a woman did not tie her feet, then she could not marry.
However, there are also some women who have long had the heart of resistance, she and Liu Niang are not the same, it was the Qianlong period, Zhao Yuntai in Hangzhou was ready to buy a concubine, so someone introduced him to a woman, this woman looks very beautiful, and the poetry is very excellent, Zhao Yuntai is overjoyed, but then followed by the other party said, this woman did not have feet!
Zhao Yuntai was not satisfied when he heard it, and when they met on the same day, he deliberately said: "I have heard your poems well, so why not make a poem with the theme of 'bow shoes'?" How could this woman not know that this person was insulting herself, and she dismissed it on the spot, and proudly said: "The three-inch bow shoe has never existed since ancient times, and Guanyin Dashi is naked." I don't know where the foot binding came from, from the world's lowly husband. ”
By the late Qing Dynasty, many reformist intellectuals also began to speak out for these girls who were forced to tie their feet, and a burst of anti-foot binding movements arose, and became a group movement in the back, once participating in more than 10,000 people, Kang Youwei even wrote "Quit Foot Binding Club", and when his daughter reached the age of foot binding, he did not let her tie her feet despite the accusations of ten miles and eight townships.
In 1897, Liang Qichao combined With Western ideas to dissuade young people from marrying foot-binding women, in order to completely break the bad habit of foot binding, this trick is simply a fatal trick to treat feudal parents, so they have no choice but to go with their daughters, and finally the anti-foot binding movement has achieved great success.
After the founding of New China, such vices were no longer there, and the streets were full of healthy women who ran wildly with smiles and smiles, and anti-foot binding not only reflected the progress of the times at that time, but also a movement of well-being that lasted for hundreds of millions of years, and it was also a huge attempt for women to break free of barriers.
However, liking small feet and liking abundance and liking emaciation are indeed just an aesthetic tendency, but the problem is that many people are easily wrapped up in the aesthetics of others, so that they become a common phenomenon, and because of the prevalence and morbidity, in fact, as long as everyone does their own, like Su Shi, "the eight winds can't blow, sit on the purple lotus", the problem is naturally solved.