Chinese Footbinding

Paw restraint habits in ancient China brought a serious lifelong suffering to Chinese women. One of the difficult things when studying a topic of foot binding is finding knowledge of facts written before the 20th century. Most of the historical data comes from paintings, paintings and photographs of the 19th and 20th centuries. Furthermore, research shows that historical literature comes primarily from missionary stories and literature from various anti-restrictive societies.

The custom of restraining ancient Chinese feet brought a serious lifelong suffering to Chinese women. The first recorded reference material came from Nantang in Nanjing. It was introduced in the eleventh century ranging from rich to peasant stage. One of the main reasons women do this is men 's happiness. Men like women with small feet and there is no sexual impulse because their legs are not tied. The history of footsteps is very vague, but it lasted at least a thousand years. This painful process collapses all the toes, except for the big toes on the soles of the feet that make the feet thin and sharp. And look forward to and find fun of men.

Historians have many different, sometimes contradictory theories about why foot restraint begins and continues as a cultural practice.

Reform conscious Chinese intellectuals are beginning to consider binding force as an aspect of their culture and need to be eliminated. In 1883, Kang Youwei established an anti-restrictive association near Guangzhou to confront this custom, an anti-restrained society appeared nationwide, and the number of members of the campaign reached 300,000. However, the opposition party's campaigning movement emphasizes the reasons for pragmatism and patriotism, not feminism, and believes that abolition of footsteps leads to better health and more effective workforce. A reformist like Liang Qichao who was influenced by social Darwinism also thought that weakened the country because weak women were said to produce weak sons. At the turn of the 20th century, early feminists such as Qiu Jin called for stopping bondage. Many members of the anti-restraint group do not promise to not detain their daughter's feet, and to allow their sons to marry a woman with a foot.