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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.
27 wrz 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.
21 lis 2019 · Zaktualizowano 21 listopada 2019 r. Przez wieki młode dziewczyny w Chinach były poddawane niezwykle bolesnemu i wyniszczającemu zabiegowi zwanemu wiązaniem stóp. Ich stopy były ciasno związane paskami materiału, z palcami zgiętymi pod podeszwą stopy, a stopa była wiązana od przodu do tyłu, tak że wyrosła w przesadnie wysoką ...
Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279.
25 wrz 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.
21 lis 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.
Even though footbinding was not practiced by every woman in late Imperial China, the aesthetic, financial, and erotic advantages of footbinding permeated all as...
