Why did ancient Chinese women have to wrap their feet? Just to please men?
There were many products in the feudal dynasty, and eunuchs were one of them. In addition, there is a more poignant and incomprehensible foot binding custom. The so-called foot binding, also known as foot binding, is a bad habit in ancient China, in fact, the woman's feet are wrapped in cloth to make it into a small and pointed three-inch golden lotus. But there are also many people who can't understand why Chinese women have to tie their feet.
In today's eyes, this kind of foot looks 10 points scary, and there is no sense of beauty, but the ancients feel very good-looking, especially the ancient men are particularly fond of it, why is this?
In fact, when it comes to the beginning of ancient women's foot binding, there is no specific data record, but it has always been a mystery, but in the earliest age found in archaeology, it must belong to the Southern Song Dynasty Fujian Fuzhou Southern Song Tomb excavated 6 pairs of women's shoes, from which it can be seen that the girl's foot was about 13.3 to 14 cm, and in the Tang Dynasty there were also poems, and then described the ancient custom of foot binding.
If you want to talk about the reasons for women's foot binding in ancient times, it is nothing more than that it was more popular at that time, and women preferred it as if it were plastic surgery, in order to echo the aesthetics of contemporary people. The foot binding custom at that time was also a popular aesthetic method. General foot binding needs to be carried out at a very young age, thus hindering its normal development, making the foot grow sharp and small, if it is summed up today, it becomes "deformed", but women's foot binding can please men and cater to the mainstream aesthetics of society. Girls with feet wrapped because their feet are relatively small, so they walk very unsteadily, in order not to fall most of them walk slowly and leisurely, giving people a petite and lovely, gentle and cute feeling, in the eyes of men, it seems that such a woman is graceful and colorful, full of charm.
You must know that in such a feudal society, the status of women is very low, only by winning the love of men, their lives can be better, so these women are willing to wrap their feet even if they undergo a very painful process. Speaking of this, one has to lament that the suffering of ancient women is pitiful and poignant. It is really shameful that these men have let these women suffer so much in order to satisfy their own selfish desires.