Chinese Footbinding

When China's legs are bound to solve the problem of foot restraint, great difficulties become apparent - many still exist in unknown. De facto knowledge about this habit can only be drawn from work, photos, pictures of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, many of these documents represent an obvious Western perspective, primarily consisting of missionary stories and literature from various anti-sufficient societies. [1] Although short text references indicate that women's small feet were preferred during the Han dynasty, the history of foot restraint is irritated.

Paw restraint habits in ancient China brought a serious lifelong pain 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. The first recorded reference material came from Nantang in Nanjing. Although the history of footsteps is ambiguous, it lasts for at least 1000 years.

As Hershadter pointed out, China 's 19th century missionaries and Westerners concentrated on two special problems concerning women: abolition and education of Chinese girls' stoppages. Foot Association, Tianjin Association (Xiamen) at the South Treaty Port of Xiamen. 31 MacGowan has created the word Tianjin - "natural foot" or "Tianjin". One of the people who contributed. Opinion on Chinese women.32

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.