Lu Laiyu's fingers are delicate and soft, and the golden lotus steps in the row. The ancients took women's small feet as beautiful, the feet were thick, and the women with large feet were not welcomed, and their social status was low, so in ancient times, when women were four or five years old, they would wrap their daughters' feet with coarse cloth in their homes, break the soles of their feet, make them deformed, and achieve the purpose that the bones would not develop, and then became the three-inch golden lotus that everyone sees today.
And in history, there is a person named Liu Niang, when she was a child, she had a small family of jasper, and in order for her to marry a good family in the future, when she was 5 years old, the family tied her feet and wrapped her feet, let her husband and wife pull, where the 5-year-old little girl could not resist this torture, crying could not make a sound, the feet were not so good to break, the more the father worked hard, the more miserable Liu Niang cried.
The more the mother said, "Don't bark! All for your own good! ”。 Ten years later, Liu Niang married the local local tycoon Wangfu family, and a few years later gave birth to 3 big fat boys for the royal palace, and the Wang family also liked her very much, but every time Liu Niang washed her feet, it was very painful, and her husband did not comfort her and even said that her feet were very good-looking, and could only be shown to him alone.
Otherwise, it is unfaithful to the woman, and unfaithful to the virginity of the husband. Liu Niang felt very sad and indignant about such a husband, but she had no choice, because the deformed aesthetic at that time was nothing more. Although the royal palace also likes Liu Niang, it also only likes that she can reproduce heirs for the royal palace and become a "tool" for her husband to play, and the two can be said to have no feelings at all.
At that time, the society of women was low, not only the royal palace, but also thousands of families believed that women were originally "tools" for reproducing offspring, and life in her later years was even more inconvenient, Liu Niang, who lived on crutches, felt very bitter every time she saw her feet, Liu Niang's life lost her original good feet, and buried a lifetime of happiness for the custom of foot binding, making irreparable sacrifices, which was lamentable.
In short, it is that the ancient people felt that the smaller the hostess's feet, the better the more beautiful, the small feet are one of the criteria for measuring an ancient beauty, and there are a large number of historical documents that record the culture of the three-inch golden lotus, which prevailed in the Northern Song Dynasty in 1068, when the Song Dynasty once implemented: "Saving Heaven and Destroying Human Desires", that is, for one's own selfish desires, any bad heart can be done.
And the real pain of foot binding, I am afraid that only the parties know, this kind of aesthetic that seems to be deformed in the present era has flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and foot binding has become more numerous, until every household behind the foot is wrapped, and people who do not wrap their feet will be regarded as "different". In fact, the knowledge in it is more important.
First of all, different foot-wrapped people can be roughly divided into three levels, the smaller the level of the foot, the more admired, the foot after the foot wrapping is greater than four inches people are called "iron lotus", is the lowest status of the most unpopular foot, just four inches of foot is "silver lotus", and the most respected product is "three inches of golden lotus", has become the object of men's play and pursuit.
The pain of the foot binding process is unimaginable, taking ten thousand steps back, it is an irreparable injury, and its means are extremely violent and cruel, but there is nothing to do, just like the "Bigfoot Dusk" Zhu Yuanzhang's Horse Queen was unwilling to wrap her feet when she was young, a pair of feet much larger than other women, making it the laughing stock of a lifetime, others called her "Bigfoot Queen".
There are also Cai Yuanpei and Kang Youwei, one of the founders of the Restoration Movement, and others, Kang Youwei even wrote a text entitled "Abstaining from Foot Binding", believing that the custom of foot binding is a bad habit and should be abandoned, although it is strongly opposed by the locals, Kang Youwei still takes the lead in not wrapping his daughter's feet and leading his daughter to rebel, and this spirit has become the spiritual pillar of future generations.
It was not until 1912 that Sun Yat-sen proposed the "policy of dissuading foot binding", and it took 17 years before and after the complete abolition of the custom of foot binding. "Wrap a pair of small feet, a vat of tears."