Why were ancient women obsessed with foot binding?

Speaking of China's ancient bad habits, foot binding is a kind that people can't understand. The original good foot should be wrapped tightly with cloth, and then the foot is deformed and cannot walk on the ground. I can't understand what people thought at that time when I think about it now. In fact, each period has certain characteristics. Our country is in such a backward period. To tell the truth, it is normal to have these bad habits. It can also reflect that people were really ignorant in all aspects of thought at that time, especially the status of women, who were completely at the bottom of society. For a long time, people agreed that female foot-binding was a requirement of feudal etiquette. But in the Qing dynasty, some people told the real reason through textual research.

Foot-binding was very popular in feudal society in China. Whether it's a young lady from a big family or an ordinary girl, from the moment she was born, she had to accept the fate of being bound feet. As we all know, the growth and development of the body has certain regularity. With the development of time, all the organs of the body will develop, and so will the feet. Only when the feet develop with the body will they have the strength to support the whole body. However, foot binding hinders the development of feet, which in itself violates the laws of the body. Therefore, it is conceivable how much harm women do to their bodies after foot binding. Of course, for feudal people, this is unexpected and can only be accepted.

The specific method is also relatively simple. When a girl is four or five years old and her bones are still soft, she should wrap her ankles and feet tightly with a long cloth to keep a slim and slightly curved shape, so that the bones of her feet will not develop again. This kind of cloth will take more than ten years to tie. Except for washing occasionally, it will be wrapped tightly at other times. It is not until adulthood that the bones are shaped that the cloth can be untied. But some people have never dismantled cloth in their lives, and they are still entangled when they die. It is also puzzling.

In the society at that time, women's feet were a standard to measure people, just like when they were married, some ordinary girls could marry rich people with beautiful feet, which was much more important than girls' looks. Therefore, many girls from poor families have suffered a lot to tie their feet in order to change their fate, just to marry a rich family, but this life is not very easy, because the rich family has three wives and four concubines. In order to gain a foothold at home, these people often fight, and some even tie their feet again to make their feet look better.

Therefore, it was very popular to keep up with the joneses at that time, because as we all know, when a girl binds her feet at home, she loses a labor force, and her feet are bound, so naturally nothing can be done. If the family is rich, she can raise it for nothing. But for ordinary people, girls should not be left behind. Even if they can't afford it, they are required to bind their feet. In the later period, any girl who doesn't bind her feet is regarded as a monster and even ridiculed.

Until the Qing Dynasty, some scholars revealed the real reason of foot binding, that is, female foot binding became a way to satisfy male desires. In fact, it is not unreasonable, because the initial starting point of foot binding is to please men, and then they can marry rich people and change their destiny. In the final analysis, it is still created by the social environment, and the concept that men are superior to women is firmly occupied in people's hearts, which is also the misfortune of an era!