Why did they do Chinese foot binding?
Wednesday , 18, October 2023 Health and Fitness Comments Off on Why did they do Chinese foot binding?Chinese foot binding had been a notably crude practice which was around mostly in rural China until recently. This was mostly a social practice. The process required the very restricted binding of the feet of little girls and the keeping of them bound to stop the feet from developing. This is an agonizing practice and resulted in substantial deformity and disability. Children who were put through this practice had to wear especially designed and manufactured footwear. There was quite an art form to this and the shoes that these children were forced to use were embellished quite deliberately and exotically.
The main reason for the practice of Chinese foot binding was that smaller feet were considered far more desired in women. A much better price could be demanded by the family of the bride for the dowry. The actual technique was very common in rural China for several centuries and just recently started to die out about 100 years ago due to social pressures that have been brought to bear on the practice a result of the pain and disability that it was creating. There are still some older Chinese woman living today with these disfigured feet from the foot binding when they were younger. The tragedy is caused by what happened once they were small children they do need to keep their feet bound since it is more at ease than not having them bound since the deformity has become so great. There was a lot of cultural and psychological analysis of the foot binding specifically in the framework of this being done too please the men instead of being of any benefit to the woman. Of recent awareness is the current practice of women using tight fitting high heel footwear has attracted characteristics with Chinese foot binding. Some of the social and psychological analysis of that have definitely discussed the analogy between the two practices and who exactly benefits from the practice. Both of them are painful, both create foot deformity, and both are for the benefit of males.