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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. Feet altered by foot binding were known as lotus feet and the shoes made for them were known as lotus shoes.
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.
17 paź 2016 · The most infamous case was foot binding. Foot binding originated in the tenth or eleventh century by dancers and courtesans. This was a practice where a young girl’s feet were tightly wrapped.
1 lut 2020 · In his meticulously researched and elegantly argued book Footbinding as Fashion, John Shepherd has made a major contribution by introducing a new body of evidence, the 1905 and 1915 censuses conducted by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan.
century.1 The particular practice of foot-binding by Han women and the habit, of both men and women, of walking barefoot were two major customs con-cerning feet that the Japanese colonial authorities considered backward and uncivilised and wished to put an end to. Recent contributions to the study
14 lut 2020 · In many cases the intense pain of foot-binding was exacerbated by infection (which sometimes led to gangrene), hindered circulation, and weakened bones and ligaments.
19 paź 2018 · Based on interviews with thousands of elderly women who experienced foot-binding, the study suggests it was used as a way to keep girls — in some cases as young as 5 — on task producing handicrafts, such as spinning thread or weaving cloth, which could be sold to support their families.
