r/TIHI Nov 09 '20

Thanks, I hate Ancient China foot binding.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

It's not even remotely aesthetic.. Her feet look like horse hooves..

Yet alone the pain.

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u/Hrakkadron Nov 09 '20

They have to fit in shoes the size of cigarette boxes

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u/fast-snail-on-crack Nov 09 '20

Why though

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u/Hrakkadron Nov 09 '20

It's "erotic"

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

apparently, it's considered sexy and invites marriage proposals back then, fuck boring normal ape feet am I right?

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u/Hrakkadron Nov 09 '20

Where banana? No, monkey. Where toes? There we go.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

Oh yes, actually walking without being in excruciating pain all the time? That's just so last season.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

And here I am thinking high heel shoes are bad.

They are, just not as bad as this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

I remember hearing that an emperor saw a beautiful girl in his dream who had really small feet, so he made every woman bend their feet like that since childhood.

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u/Hrakkadron Nov 09 '20

It pretty much shows that they aren't peasants regardless of if they are or not. But yeah.

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u/TheBattleBoi Nov 09 '20

I'm pretty sure it was also so the women could not run away or even run.

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u/Buddha_Lady Nov 10 '20

It showed that a woman was higher class and didn’t need to work or do housework also

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u/laeiryn 4d ago

so they can't run away from their arranged marriages