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Foot binding was a Chinese custom of curling up young girls' feet to modify their shape. It was prevalent in imperial China. 1. What was foot binding? Foot binding was the practice of tightly bandaging girls' feet in cloth to alter their shape. Their bound feet were contorted to only a few inches in length and were called lotus feet.
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. Some of the...
May 22, 2017 · It was an excruciatingly painful practice that maimed the feet of millions of Chinese girls and women for centuries: foot-binding. Tiny “golden lotus” feet – achieved through breaking girls’...
Apr 10, 2024 · 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.
Nov 21, 2019 · Updated on November 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.
Sep 16, 2013 · The Peculiar History of Foot Binding in China. How ten centuries of Chinese women submitted to the painful practice—and how it finally went out of fashion. By Matt Schiavenza. September 16,...
Mar 23, 2015 · 23 March 2015. Jo Farrell. Zhang Yun Ying was the first woman Jo Farrell photographed, in 2006. By Josephine McDermott. BBC News. Decades after foot-binding was outlawed in China, a British...
