lt is wildly accepted that foot--binding originated from the Five Dynasties period.
One concubine in the Later Tang Dynasty was gifted in dancing, and she had a pair of small feet.The king at that moment built a special lotus-shaped stage for this concubine to present his happiness and pleasure brought by the excellent dances.
After that, small feet became popular gradually, and this was also the reason why people called small feet " three-inch golden lotuses” .
It usually starts like this! After the age of four, if their daughter needs to walk around the room,they need a long cloth strip.Wrap the cloth tightly around your feet and press your four little toes under your feet. forcing the four small toes under the sole of the foot.
This made the feet narrower but at the same time it made the feet shorter because it also forced the big toe and the heel closer together by bowing the arch of the foot. The bandage was tightened each day and the girl was put into progressively smaller and smaller sized shoes.The entire process usually took about two years at the end of which the feet were essentially dead and utterly useless.
Why did this fashion exist tor such long time?
Women became more dependent on others. They were not able to journey far on their own and thus were more controllable. This goes hand in hand with the Neo-Confucian teachings of the time which preached a hierarchical social order starting in the family with women being subservient to their husbands.
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