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Three Inch Golden Lotus: The Foot Binding Culture Of Women At The End Of Qing Dynasty

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Three Inch Golden Lotus Foot Binding Culture

Foot-binding

The purpose is to restrict the growth of the feet, and bend the feet that have already grown up, so the age of foot binding is naturally smaller and better. The smaller the feet are, the softer and easier they are to wrap them. But they are too early to wrap them up and fear that their feet will not be able to walk when they wrap up, so they usually begin to wrap their feet after women can walk.

1, blue wrapped cloth six.

It's about eight feet to ten feet above. The cloth is longer than the usual and it needs a good pulp.

2, flat shoes five pairs.

The shoe is slightly pointed.

shoes

The size of the child should be small and thin as the process of winding the feet.

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3, two or three pairs of sleeping shoes.

When you sleep, you can prevent the cloth from spreading.

4, needlework.

After wrapping the cloth, sew the cloth and sew the cloth tightly.

5, cotton.

When the foot is bound, the place where the foot is raised is covered with cotton, so as not to break the foot into raw corn.

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6. Basin and hot water.

Wash feet with warm water before binding feet.

7, small scissors, pedicure nails and corns.

When you wrap your feet, let the girl sit on the low stool and place the hot water in the basin. Wash your feet clean and warm on your feet. The other four toes outside the big toe will bend towards your feet as far as you can. Sprinkle alum powder between the joints of your toes, so that the skin will converge. You can also prevent fungal infection, then wrap them in cloth bags and then stitch them with needles.

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After the two feet are wrapped up, they often feel the heat of their feet. The experienced person will not be wrapped up at the beginning. It is best to start gently when they wrap up, so that the two feet will gradually become accustomed to this restraint. Once again, they will gradually tighten up. This period can be from a few days to two months or so.

When you wrap up, you should wrap up the cloth tightly to the tightest degree. Every time you untie it, you must squeeze four curled toes from the bottom of your feet to the inside. Every time you bend your feet, you bend your toes down under your feet.

At the same time, four curled toes should be moved backward from the bottom of the foot to the heels, leaving some space between the toes, so that the toes will be crowded together and the toes too thick.

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Always keep your little toes under your feet. The second toe is pressed under the toe of the big toe. When you wrap the tip, you often have to twist your toes to the bottom of your toes, and then use the cloth tightly to hold them. The toe joints of the second toes and the toes of the third, fourth, fifth toes are torn by twisting.

Every time you wrap up, you have to hurt a few sprained joints once again. When you wrap up, you will have to suffer from pain. If you wrap them up, you should sew them tightly with needlework, squeeze them into the pointed shoes, and ask the girls to walk around.

When walking, the weight is pressed on the eight toes of kneeling on the inner bend. The sprain of the joint is more severe. The toe is not bent on the sole of the foot because it is bent into the foot. When walking, the toe joint is easy to grow long corn.

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In the daytime, both feet hurt so hard that when they put their feet in the quilt at night, they were not only painful, but also steamed hot and stuffy. Sometimes they were as miserable as charcoal burning. They could only put their feet outside the quilt when they slept.

The second day, when I woke up in the morning, I had to untie the wrapped cloth more tightly, and entangled the last third, fourth, fifth toe joints would be seriously sprained or even dislocated. When it was dislocated, the feet would be swollen and the skin would become purple and pained.

But the wrapping was still tight for a day until the swollen toe was wrapped around the soles of the feet, which was the end of the job.

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When the foot is wrapped, the four toes are curled up under the sole of the foot, but they may not be able to press under the sole of their feet. The thin work is to push the small phalanges (that is, the outer bones) downward to the inside of the feet and wrap them up in the center of the feet, and move the little toe to the inside of the foot, then use the cloth to tighten the belt tightly. The two or three and four or five toes do not press under the sole of the feet.

When you are thin, you must wrap up the outer bones. The toes are pressed into the inner side of the foot. Of course, the third, fourth, fifth toe tips must touch the inner edge of the sole to complete the thin work.

When wrapping is thin, the foot binding cloth is entangled most tightly, and the whole strength is especially focused on the part of the little toe, often due to poor blood circulation, causing the small toe and the outer part of the bone, which is the pressure ulcer of the outer bone.

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When you wrap up, you should push down the small phalanges and push the four toes down to the inner edge of your feet. If you wrap up the binding cloth tightly, you may not be able to walk with your feet for a long time after you wrap them up. You have to struggle with your feet to walk with your heels.

Sitting down is a throbbing pain. When sleeping, it will also go up and ache. If the feet are fester and fester, it will get worse. They must use their pillows to cover their feet. Sometimes they must put their heels on the bed bar and press nerves to numb them.

When the weather is hot, the fever inside the feet is more severe.

When the pain is light, I feel asleep when my feet are still sore, or I wake up frequently.

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Untie the wrapped cloth, often fester parts and tightly wrapped cloth, and reluctantly ripped off, it is a piece of flesh and blood, almost six months, to endure pain and toes to the toe inside the foot, the foot of the foot can touch the toes, so that it is thin to get home.

Ulcerated wounds are often getting worse and worse. Eventually, even the small toe will rot and fall off and form chronic osteomyelitis.

From this we can see that to tie up a pair of small feet is really going through all kinds of hardships. No wonder the foot binding women care more about their feet than anything else.

When the feet are thin and thin, they will carry out the work of wrapping and bending. The wrapping is to wrap a deep pit in the palm of the sole of the foot. The deeper the pit is, the more serious the bending of the sole will be, and fold it to the two part of the foot.

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The front part of the foot is close to the heel, and a deep seam in the middle sometimes reaches four or five centimeters deep. The little toe is sandwiched in the deep seam, and the instep is swinging up to a high slope due to the bending of the sole. Some infirm feet are bulges like balls.

The length of the foot is obviously shortened after wrapping. The standard foot requires three inches long, which is about 10 centimeters. The process of wrapping and bending depends on pushing the heel forward when it is entangled, pressing down the back of the foot, tightening the force of the front and back, lowering the big toe through the beam, lowering the center of the foot at once, slowly showing the concave shape of the foot, and exerting the force to wrap it up. The more curved the arch is, the better the foot can be wrapped around the bow for about half a year.

Generally speaking, when the foot binding is bent, the pain is slightly relieved. However, in some parts of the south, it is not very hard for the paw to wrap up. In the early years of the age, it begins to wrap and bend. When it is wrapped, it requires special short time. At this point, the pain is very severe, and even the pain rolls on the bed.

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If your feet are thin and thin enough, you can wrap your feet straight, often after you wrap them up, your feet will become inward hooks, and the shape of a banana like foot is very ugly.

The foot is straight and straight into arch bridge, then horseshoe shaped, until the heel of the toe is close together, and the arch of the foot can not shrink again, then it is wrapped into a pair of standard feet.

The process of wrapping around the feet is simply to curl up the four toes on the outside, and bend the outer longitudinal arch of the foot.

When the weight is thin, the pverse arch of the foot is bent down, and the external longitudinal bow is bent.

When bending, only bend the medial arch of the foot and bend the outer longitudinal arch further.

After the foot is wrapped, the foot arch used to buffer the impact force is disappeared. When walking, the knee joint and the ankle joint should be cushioned.

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Because the sole of the foot is wrapped up to the left big toe, the strength of pushing the sole of the foot is small when walking. The foot moves on the ground, and the strength of the thigh is used to move. The lower leg muscles atrophy undeveloped, so the legs become thin after the feet are tied, thighs become thicker, and some people use their big toe balls and heels together to walk, so that walking becomes an outer eight character walking, and it is also a common walking form of small feet.

This artificial disability is popular because it creates a unique "feminine beauty" in an artificial way.

Before the five generation, there were poems that praised the beauty of women's feet. After the five generation, the little feet were known as "Golden Lotus", "fragrant hook" and "step by step Lotus".

The literati even summed up the "Four Beauties" (shape, quality, posture, spirit) and "Three Beauties" (fat, soft and show).

To the Qing Dynasty.

The wind of foot binding is flourishing. Han women do not have foot binding.

This aesthetic psychology actually contained a strong sense of sexuality. Li Yu, the Qing Dynasty scholar, even openly claimed that the highest purpose of foot binding was to satisfy a man's sexual desire.

Because the feet are "fragrant and colourful".

Playing is enough to make people "sell the soul forever". He has summed up 48 kinds of small feet.

Such as: sniffing, sucking, licking, biting, scratching, stripping, kneading, pushing and so on.