In "White Deer Plain", when Bai Ling wrapped his feet, he cried out with tears in his heart and lungs, which made people terrifying and palpitate. "A pair of small feet, a vat of tears". So, is the initiator of this pain Li Yu?
01 Li Hou Lord's Golden Lotus Terrace
In addition to having the world's most beautiful women, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, also had a beauty in the harem, which made people grumpy, and her name was Miao Niang. Li Yu and Da Zhou Hou Qin Ser and Ming, played happily for 10 years. In 964, at the age of 28, He died of illness.
Li Yu was in a terrible pain for this, and the concubines tried everything to please him. Among them was a palace concubine, who was as light as a swallow, delicate and good at dancing, wrapping her feet in a cotton veil, bending into a crescent moon, wearing plain socks, and dancing to amuse him.
Due to the unstable center of gravity and swaying like a willow, Lord Li Hou ordered the craftsmen to create a six-foot-high golden lotus platform with gold, decorated with treasures, so that she continued to wrap her feet in cloth and dance in the lotus flower, swirling in the form of a cloud, and the three-inch golden lotus was named from then on.
However, the lady only wrapped her feet in a veil during the dance, which was essentially different from the later foot binding. This thousand-year cauldron should obviously not be carried by Li Yu.
Moreover, the Song Dynasty Zhang Bangji recorded in the "Mozhuang Manga" that the woman's foot binding began in the recent world, and the previous life books did not contain it. That is, before the Song Dynasty, there was no custom of foot binding.
02 The Song people's obsession with slim feet
During the Song Dynasty, I don't know which master took foot binding as beauty, and then quickly spread it in the market and became fashionable. As a result, the literati inker Hunt Yan was amazed. Su Shi wrote a poem called "Bodhisattva Man. Wing Foot"---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sneaking through the palace like a stable, standing double sleepy, delicate to say that it should be difficult, must be seen from the palm.
In the Song novel "Water Margin", Ximen Qing uses the queen mother of the tea house as a matchmaker to date Pan Jinlian and drink and have fun. During the banquet, when Ximen Qing bent down to pick up chopsticks, he saw Pan Jinlian's feet, so he could not resist the impulse in his heart and reached out and touched it.
It can be seen that the customs and aesthetic fetishes of that time were so, in this free and unrestrained dynasty, women were beautiful with foot binding, and men were obsessed with small feet.
03 The Ming Dynasty people's obsession with small feet
The phrase "bare horse's feet" is probably not unfamiliar to everyone. According to legend, Empress Ma of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty was born in the chaos of war, and fought with the army from an early age, and did not wrap her feet. For this reason, the horse queen often wore a long skirt and hid her big feet.
One day out, a gust of wind opened the corner of the car curtain, and was looked at squarely, so it spread in the folk.
One year during the Lantern Festival, Zhu Yuanzhang visited the capital privately, and occasionally saw an interesting riddle, depicting a woman with a big foot, holding a large watermelon, which was very funny. Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand his meaning, so he asked the erudite Liu Bowen. Liu Bowen smiled and said, "You will know when you go back to the palace and ask the empress dowager."
Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the palace to raise the matter with the empress, and the empress said, "Concubines of the Western Ren clan, Tianzu, the mystery must be concubines." Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard this, and ordered a secret investigation and treatment, and later Empress Ma helped the people to resolve them one by one.
But it can be seen from this that it is taboo for women in the Ming Dynasty not to tie their feet.
04 Modern people's reverie of small feet
For many years, foot binding is related to the fate of women who do not worry about marriage, so while crying, they desperately can't get by with their feet, and they began to wrap their feet at the age of four or five.
There is a set of strange theories: the three-inch golden lotus walks gracefully and gracefully, and will produce a flattering attitude of the willow waist pendulum, and the small foot will arouse the reverie of the man.
He thinks that the wonder of women is all in the small feet. He also has a set of seven tips for tasting small feet: thin, small, pointed, curved, wicked, soft, and straight.
When Gu Hongming has no inspiration for writing, as long as he holds his wife's small foot in his hand, sniffs the smell of meat (smell), and suddenly feels like a spring, the next pen has a god, called "stimulant".
During the Qing Dynasty, Manchu women did not have the custom of foot binding, and the Qing government repeatedly banned foot binding. However, due to the problem of concept, under the impact of Western ideas, women finally eliminated foot binding.
However, this collective absurd and bizarre aesthetic farce has caused too much harm to the vast number of women for thousands of years, innocent and innocent, but they have suffered a lot.
(Picture from the network, thanks to the original author)