Foot binding - Wikipedia
WEBFoot binding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size.
8 FAQs about Foot Binding You Want Answered - China Highlights
WEBFoot binding was the practice of curling young girls' feet to modify their shape in ancient China. See why and how women bound their feet here.
Unbound: China's last 'lotus feet' – in pictures - The Guardian
WEBJun 15, 2015 · Unbound: China's last 'lotus feet' – in pictures. 103 years after foot binding was banned, a few women still live with the severe deformity it caused. Jo Farrell tracked down 50 of them, all in...
Work, not sex? The real reason Chinese women bound their feet
WEBMay 22, 2017 · Living with bound feet. 03:40 - Source: CNN. Hong Kong CNN — It was an excruciatingly painful practice that maimed the feet of millions of Chinese girls and women for centuries: foot-binding.
Foot-Binding - World History Encyclopedia
WEBSep 27, 2017 · Foot-binding was a practice first carried out on young girls in Tang Dynasty China to restrict their normal growth and make their feet as small as possible. Considered an attractive quality, the effects...
How Foot Binding Worked | HowStuffWorks
WEBHow Foot Binding Worked. By: Melanie Radzicki McManus. Two elderly women in Tonghai, China wear tiny "lotus shoes" on their bound feet. Foot binding was a common practice in China for more than 1,000 years before it was outlawed in 1912. See more pictures of …
Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium
WEBFoot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon.
The Medical Consequences of Foot-Binding - The Atlantic
WEBFeb 14, 2020 · “Bound Feet in China,” a 1937 article in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, gives one of the few detailed physical descriptions of foot-binding currently available, but still couches...
The last women in China with bound feet: 'They thought it …
WEBJun 15, 2015 · The photographer Jo Farrell tracked down 50 surviving women whose feet had been bound. Many could no longer walk, and kept their disfigurement hidden. Her images reveal the survivors’ strength,...
Footbinding | History, Culture & Effects | Britannica
WEBApr 10, 2024 · Footbinding usually began when girls were between 4 and 6 years old; some were as young as 3, and some as old as 12. Mothers, grandmothers, or older female relatives first bound the girl’s feet. The ultimate goal was to make them 3 inches long, the ideal “golden lotus” foot, though few individuals actually achieved that goal.
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