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Essay On Chinese Foot Binding

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Kai-Li Liao

Chinese foot binding is a practice for girls in China as an objective to restrict the growth of the feet, and it is to be believed that women with smaller feet are more beautiful that the ones with bigger feet. Examples are the women with feet size that measure 3 inches perfectly are called lotus of the gold and 4 inches considered silver lotus and the ones exceeding 4 inches are called iron lotus.The very start of Chinese foot binding was during the Sung dynasty (960-1279 A.D) when a Chinese emperor favored a concubine that binds her foot so she can dance ballet on her toes and sooner or later this practice became very fashionable and spread throughout China. Although Chinese traditional foot binding has lasted for …show more content…

However this didn 't completely outlawed foot binding until 1912 government outlawed this practice and started fining people who continued binding their feet but this still foot binding were still being practices in various parts of China until 1949 when communist came to power they issued their own ban on foot binding which brought a complete end to this practice because if successful resistance movements.Today after 100 years foot binding has been outlawed there are still survivors of foot binding that can be found which are remains of an outlawed practice.Feet binding in China has almost lasted for 1000 years and approximately 2 billion women underwent this process but in modern days lotus foot shoe can still be found in shoes museums.Although women at that time were being defined with a bounded feet in modern days feet binding are no longer being practiced by women in order to define their

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