- Foot binding, 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 first practised during the Song dynasty (960–1279), and during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) it spread widely among upper-class families.
- Chinese foot binding is an ancient tradition of beauty and torture, passed from mother to daughter, generation to generation, that lasted for almost 1,000 years.
- 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.
- In most contexts, the term “foot binding” describes the ancient Chinese practice of binding girls’ feet to form them to be as small as possible.
- Foot binding Footbinding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú, literally "bound feet") was a custom practised on.
- Foot binding continued for thousands of years. It was finally made illegal in the early 1900s in modern times. Still, some people practiced foot binding anyway.
- Foot binding starts at the mere age of just four or five years old and the bandages are usually permanently taken off when the girl reaches adulthood.
- Foot binding was a lengthy and painful process that began in childhood with the systematic breaking and binding of the feet to achieve a hoof-shaped...
- 6. Women with bound feet more frequently give birth to sons, as their subdued Yin element is rarely able to overcome the masculine Yang element
- Foot binding, 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 first practised during the Song dynasty (960–1279), and during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) it spread widely among upper-class families.
- Chinese foot binding is an ancient tradition of beauty and torture, passed from mother to daughter, generation to generation, that lasted for almost 1,000 years.
- 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.
- In most contexts, the term “foot binding” describes the ancient Chinese practice of binding girls’ feet to form them to be as small as possible.
- Foot binding Footbinding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú, literally "bound feet") was a custom practised on.
- Foot binding continued for thousands of years. It was finally made illegal in the early 1900s in modern times. Still, some people practiced foot binding anyway.
- Foot binding starts at the mere age of just four or five years old and the bandages are usually permanently taken off when the girl reaches adulthood.
- Foot binding was a lengthy and painful process that began in childhood with the systematic breaking and binding of the feet to achieve a hoof-shaped...
- 6. Women with bound feet more frequently give birth to sons, as their subdued Yin element is rarely able to overcome the masculine Yang element
