LOTUS foot, apprentice-

Legend has it that lotus or slippers at the foot of lily first time in China in the 11th Century, when Empress Taki was born with clubfoot. To save her future embarrassment, gave the father that only women can be very small feet really feminine and desirable. As a result, women began to bind their feet. legs were almost useless as a sign of status, beauty, nobility, and sexual attractiveness. The bonding process begins at age 5-7 years. The bandages wrapped around thefoot to bend the four smaller toes inward under the foot to the heel, until the mid moon.The girls had their feet bound by their mothers was similar. Association of a foot to married daughters and we hope that a rich man, the initial process of binding the feet took just one night, but the years of pain at the foot of the beautiful crescent shape. During a painful period of one year 2-3, shoe size was gradually reduced. Highestbe a target size of only three inches long. These silk shoes only measure 140 mm (5 ½ inches) long and 24 mm (1 inch) wide ... Foot-binding was terribly painful. When asked why women do this we must understand the history behind the practice. Then we can start our questions about why a painful response tradition to continue to exist for long.



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