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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 · Tiny “golden lotus” feet – achieved through breaking girls’ toes and arches and binding them to the sole of the foot with cloth – were thought to be a passport to a better marriage and a ...
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon.
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.
Feb 14, 2020 · “Bound Feet in China,” a 1937 article in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, gives one of the few detailed physical descriptions of foot-binding currently available, but still couches the...
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.
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.
Jul 15, 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.
Sep 16, 2013 · The tradition, known as foot binding, eventually came to symbolize China's backwardness, a relic from the country's distant past. But despite the efforts of reformists, foot binding persisted...
