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Foot binding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size.
Foot binding was the practice of curling young girls' feet to modify their shape in ancient China. See why and how women bound their feet here.
May 22, 2017 · Bossen says women weren’t shy about talking about or showing their bound feet, making her skeptical that it was an erotically charged fetish.
Feb 14, 2020 · February 14, 2020. For several hundred years, millions of Chinese girls had their bodies painfully misshapen to conform to a prevailing social expectation. Intact feet, girls were told, would ...
Sep 27, 2017 · Foot-Binding was a practice first carried out on young girls in Tang Dynasty China to restrict their normal growth and make their feet as small as possible. Considered an attractive quality, the effects of foot-binding were painful and permanent. It was widely used as a method to distinguish girls of the upper class from everyone else, and ...
Women wanted ever-smaller, more curved feet, and so the foot binding process was created to achieve highly arched, 3-inch (7.6-centimeter) feet. The practice thrived for 1,000 years until it was outlawed in 1912 after the revolution of Sun Yat-sen.
Footbinding, cultural practice, existing in China from the 10th century until the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, that involved tightly bandaging the feet of women to alter their shape for aesthetic purposes. Footbinding usually began when girls were between 4 and 6 years.
Mar 19, 2007 · Millions of Chinese women bound their feet, a status symbol that allowed them to marry into money. Footbinding was banned in 1912, but some women continued to do it in secret.
Apr 12, 2016 · In old world China, small feet epitomized feminine beauty. Foot binding was a symbol of status and refinement. Widely seen as barbaric, the practice was banned in 1912. Some of those women...
Nov 21, 2019 · For centuries, young girls in China were subjected to an extremely painful and debilitating procedure called foot binding. Their feet were bound tightly with cloth strips, with the toes bent down under the sole of the foot, and the foot tied front-to-back so that the grew into an exaggerated high curve.
