>Foot binding was the custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape of their feet
Wtf china
Foot binding was the custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape of their feet
Jayden Edwards
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Andrew Adams
>Foot binding
I refuse to believe this. Must be just another conspiracy theory.
Jacob Watson
read a book
Jonathan Adams
>where have i seen this face before?
Jordan Martinez
The same category
Julian Miller
Friendly reminder that this is the "traditional Chinese culture" that the Communist Party of China destroyed. :)
Christopher Brown
Didn't Japan do this as well?
Owen Green
Liam Wood
This was aristocratic fashion, hardly comparable to thousands of temples, statues, and works of art being smashed in the name of internationalism.
Aiden Morales
We need to give Taiwan nukes desu.
Nathaniel Jones
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John Torres
this at least looks nice
Ethan Jenkins
Anti-foot binding laws had been passed in China as early as the 17th century.
Chase Allen
Based Mao banned that shit
Ryan Williams
>not having triforce feet
Joshua Ramirez
They estimate at one point almost half of all Chinese women had bound feet and for the upper classes, it was close to 100%.
Ayden Bell
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>First, each foot would be soaked in a warm mixture of herbs and animal blood; this was intended to soften the foot and aid the binding. Then, the toenails were cut back as far as possible to prevent in-growth and subsequent infections, since the toes were to be pressed tightly into the sole of the foot. Cotton bandages, 3 m long and 5 cm wide (10 ft by 2 in), were prepared by soaking them in the blood and herb mixture. To enable the size of the feet to be reduced, the toes on each foot were curled under, then pressed with great force downwards and squeezed into the sole of the foot until the toes broke.
>The broken toes were held tightly against the sole of the foot while the foot was then drawn down straight with the leg and the arch of the foot was forcibly broken. The bandages were repeatedly wound in a figure-eight movement, starting at the inside of the foot at the instep, then carried over the toes, under the foot, and around the heel, the freshly broken toes being pressed tightly into the sole of the foot. At each pass around the foot, the binding cloth was tightened, pulling the ball of the foot and the heel together, causing the broken foot to fold at the arch, and pressing the toes underneath the sole. The binding was pulled so tightly that the girl could not move her toes at all and the ends of the binding cloth were then sewn so that the girl could not loosen it.
Evan Reyes
>The girl's broken feet required a great deal of care and attention, and they would be unbound regularly. Each time the feet were unbound, they were washed, the toes carefully checked for injury, and the nails carefully and meticulously trimmed. When unbound, the broken feet were also kneaded to soften them and the soles of the girl's feet were often beaten to make the joints and broken bones more flexible. The feet were also soaked in a concoction that caused any necrotic flesh to fall off.[46]
>Immediately after this agonizing procedure, the girl's broken toes were folded back under and the feet were rebound. The bindings were pulled even tighter each time the girl's feet were rebound. This unbinding and rebinding ritual was repeated as often as possible (for the rich at least once daily, for poor peasants two or three times a week), with fresh bindings. It was generally an elder female member of the girl's family or a professional foot binder who carried out the initial breaking and ongoing binding of the feet. It was considered preferable to have someone other than the mother do it, as she might have been sympathetic to her daughter's pain and less willing to keep the bindings tight.
>For most the bound feet eventually became numb. However, once a foot had been crushed and bound, attempting to reverse the process by unbinding is painful, and the shape could not be reversed without a woman undergoing the same pain all over again.
Nathan Perry
Thomas Cook
It's part of your history leaf, why are you surprised?
Samuel Morales
China deserves not one, not ten, but one thousand nukes.
Jackson Baker
And only until Mao was it truly destroyed.
Truly the CCP is greater thank all the shitty backwardness of the past. Unlike the KMT, who can't even defeat literal peasants despite outnumbering them with better equipment and factories and American help.
Try it, amerimutt. 4 chinks for every amerimutt, let's trade nukes until someone gives.
Landon Robinson
High heel is no different
Bentley Scott