When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past. Xiao Lou had another east wind last night, and the homeland could not look back at the moon and the middle of the moon... A lamenting "Yu Meiren" lets us know a multi-talented and pitiful king in history, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Li Yu is said to be versatile, just because he is a peak in the history of literature, and his achievements in poetry are unmatched, and he is pitiful because he does not want to be a king at all, but only wants to send love to landscapes and rivers, write poems and paint, but...
Li Yu was the sixth son of Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and there was an older brother Li Hongji, who had long been made crown prince, and originally could not have turned him to become emperor, but in 959 AD, his brother died of illness, and his father insisted on making him crown prince despite the opposition of everyone, and from then on, Li Yu's fate was not up to him.
In 961, Li Jing died of illness, and Li Yu, who was 24 years old at the time, ascended the throne and became the last king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was the world of great controversy, and Li Jing was still a bit of a hero, so when he was alive, the Southern Tang once developed to the largest territory, although the late period was a bit of a jerk, but the strength was still very strong.
After Li Yu succeeded to the throne, he hated war very much, and at the beginning of his succession, he sent people to pay tribute to Zhao Kuangyin to express his intention of submission, and Xitu let the Southern Tang survive in the great dispute by showing weakness, so he also removed the imperial title and called himself the lord of the country, but could Zhao Kuangyin listen to him?
Let others sleep soundly next to the bed.
In 974, Li Yu's good life was only 13 years later, Zhao Kuangyin finally pacified the north, and after that, he set his eyes on the fertile land of Jiangnan, in September of that year, sent the generals Cao Bin and Pan Mei to lead the army to go out, the Southern Tang Dynasty was peaceful for a long time, and now when he met these two famous generals, where were their opponents.
In May 975, jinling city was destroyed, Li Yu meat surrendered, and after 38 years of transmission, the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was once the strongest among the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, was destroyed. Li Yu lost jiangsu as a result, and his career as a king became a joke.
From this perspective, Li Yu is naturally very pitiful, however, what vices can he leave behind to plague women for thousands of years? Sadly, this is yet another misplaced story.
In the Southern Tang Dynasty, there was a lotus-picking woman with Hu ancestry, called Miao Niang, who entered the palace at the age of 16, because she was good at dancing, and was deeply loved by Li Yu, li Yu for her: she was destined to make a golden lotus, six feet tall, loaded with treasures, with a net belt, a Chinese work of Se Ruilian, so that the lady wrapped her feet in a veil, a crescent moon on the song, a dance lotus in plain socks, and a swirling state of lingyun...
What do you mean?
In order to appreciate the more graceful dance posture of the lotus, Li Yu specially created a golden lotus that is more than six feet high, the decoration is exceptionally gorgeous, the specially ordered Lady to "wrap her feet with a veil", the lotus dance, just like the Lingbo fairy, fluttering is not like a mortal figure.
The main point of this passage is to "wrap the feet with a veil", foot binding folk call foot binding, perhaps because of the habit of human transmission, since then, women's foot binding has begun, that is to say, Li Yu is the initiator of women's foot binding, why do you say so?
Under normal circumstances, women can not wear socks when they wrap their feet, they have to use foot wraps, and the Zhou Li has clouds: there are people who are in charge, who are in charge of the king and the queen's clothes, for the red, black, red, yellow, green, su, ge. Distinguish between the external and internal husbands and wives of the gong, the fate, the scattered, the people are in charge of the king and the queen's clothing, shoes and socks, but in the Zhou Ceremony, the king and the queen's shoes and socks are not separated, but the same form, from which it can be seen that the women of the Zhou Dynasty are not foot-bound;
The Han Dynasty GuleFu "Double Line Entanglement" has clouds: Silla embroidered white path, feet like spring Yan. Women in the Han Dynasty also wore socks, so they were also not foot-bound;
In the Tang Dynasty Guo Ruoxuan's "Records of Pictorial Insights and Stories", it is said that Yang Taizhen died in Ma Song, and he had a sock and a hundred dollars for the viewer. After Yang Guifei died in Ma Songpo, there was an old lady who found her a sock, others want to see, but also have to spend a hundred dollars first, how can the old lady do business for the time being, just say Yang Guifei, actually wear socks, from this level, Tang Dynasty women are not bound.
Only in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu called Lady Miao to "wrap her feet with a veil", although she said it was good, the image seemed to be very beautiful, and it all reached the point of "having a state of lingyun", but in the final analysis, the woman's foot binding began.
Everyone thinks that foot binding can make a woman's feet such as "three inches of golden lotus, the hand can be held", you can also let women walk "Shu Miao", walk slowly, the posture is beautiful, just because in the literati's mouth, this pathological vice is so "wonderful", so it was passed down, until the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the generation is wrapped more than once, especially excessively, in the Qing Dynasty, the scholar Fang Xuan also specially made "Fragrant Lotus Pinzao", the small feet are divided into five styles, three gui, nine pins, eighteen, etc. Theoretically, the foot binding was pushed to the peak, and it was once popular in the world and became the standard for women to wrap their feet.
Until modern times, in the fifties and sixties of the last century, the countryside still saw old women with foot bindings from time to time, and those small feet were one by one, which made people look worried.
So-called: Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, left a bad habit after losing Jiangshan, which plagued women for thousands of years, things can be so embarrassing, fortunately, now, this vice has been eliminated, and women's feet have long been released.
References: Zhou Li, Han Le Fu, History of the Song Dynasty, History of Marriage in China, History of Chinese Women's Life, etc