The thousand year old Chinese practice of foot binding may be long since abolished, but its grotesque legacy lives on in the few surviving ladies who were subjected to this crippling treatment.
Some of the last victims still live on, and the nature of the practice can be readily ascertained from the graphic photos below:
The excruciating practice involved binding the feet ever tighter in the girl’s youth, until the bones were broken and crushed into the desired shape. Such “shapely” feet were the subject of great aesthetic appreciation and were proudly displayed with the sort of fine footwear seen here.
Contrary to what might be thought, such crippled women could still be expected to work in the fields and retain relative mobility.
These ladies were born in the 1930s, and it can only be hoped that they were amongst the very last to be so afflicted…
Via Heaven.
Why do asian men like weak useless women so much?
Hm. It appears to me that the ladies in the photos have had their feet “let out”, that is, have long ago discarded the restraining bandages that made the shape and size of the feet fixed, and which will over time allow the feet to take on a more relaxed shape. As I recall, letting out is the norm for many of the survivors of foot binding left alive today.
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Welldone, all you’ve done here is you’ve got the googled results for ‘bound feet’ channeled to you via ‘Heaven’.
You’re better than this, Sankaku.
All because of some selfish empereror, with a foot perversion. Before his reign, girls were very sporty I believe and took part in many games.