Bound Feet (Al-Rashid's Class, again)

A lecture about the binding of feet in ancient Chinese culture, once again in Al-Rashid's class.

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Education

Tags:

• bound
• feet
• ancient
• chinese
• china
• binding
• al-rashid
• ryanandstephen

[cherryL53]

the story goes that the emperor's daughter was born with small disformed feet, so to over up for the humiliation the emperor declaired that it was beautiful to have small feet .

[Capitulant]

If their feet were not broken during this process, then how did they manage to get them in those tiny shoes? Obviously, these women were mutilated by this, their toes and arches had to of been broken, I don't see how they could have been shaped like that otherwise. If I'm wrong, then how did they get them in that shape?

[MercedesBenz1994]

@Capitulant They broke all of their toes in order to do this. Then they're feet were soaked in herbs and animal blood and toe nails were cut as short as possible so infection wouldn't occur. They're feet were wrapped in silk bandages (which were soaked in the same mixture). Everyday the bandages were tightened and the shoes that were worn got smaller. This happened for approximately 2 years at ages 4-7.

[Romzyx]

I see a lot of people putting up how they did it, but they are wrong about some things. They started when the girl was 2 or 5, and soaked her feet in a warm herbal water.They would then crush the toes under the foot, and then shatter the arch of the foot.They would bind the feet, and have the girl walk to further shape them. The bandages would be changed every day, or twice a week. It was best to have a mother do it, as a professional could shatter the toes in multiple places to make them small.

[UTMR117]

@staystrong8966 no, they removed a bit of flesh, and the big toe was bent over the top of the foot. i learned this from a lot of research and SCHOOL. we even had to read a paper about it. and man, were the pictures gross. and by the way.

you're three months late. i posted this a long time ago, leave the past behind.

[staystrong8966]

@UTMR117 WOW Where to begin...

1. The arch of the foot was forcibly broken, toenails were cut very close, sometimes removed entirely.

2. The toes were turned under toward the sole, NOT STITCHED into place, but broken to turn under more.

3. The big toe was left fully extended

4. strips of silk were very tightly wrapped around the foot and heel, this is what was stitched together.

They DID NOT REMOVE flesh. Girls were forced to walk for hours on their broken bones to further crush the bones.

[toiletscrubbr]

dang imagine breaking all your toes on purpose just so your could "look good"

sucks that it went out of style

[PRLatino22]

@Capitulant its a long prosses doesnt happen over a day or week thay bandage there feet an over time there foot grows to be like that

[Dismalic]

Looks like her foot is giving a Thumbs Up.

[UTMR117]

@Capitulant 1: they broke the toes by making the women walk on their tips

2: they removed the flesh

3: they bent the toes so they were almost touching the cut at the bottom where the flesh was removed

4: they made the big toe go the opposite direction

5: they used thread to attack the toes the the bottom of the foot

6: they wrapped it

this made it so the feet COULD NOT GROW...

The women didn't even have a choice, and if you think about it, this is extremelly painful.

[allthatyouknow]

@Capitulant You're completely right the arches and the rest of the foot were badly broken during this process and infection would set in. Most of these women couldn't walk more than a few yards without excrutiating pain and not to mention it was terribly exhausting for them too.