2007-03-30 13:06:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Believe it or not it was a symbol of status. Rich mothers would break their daughters' feet and tie them so they healed like that. Small feet were attractive so they would find a better husband. Also they needed to be carried because they couldn't walk so only the wealthy could do this. Poorer working women needed to use their feet to walk. Unfortunately this is not limited to ancient times; it was still performed fairly recently.
2007-03-30 13:15:49 · answer #1 · answered by just wants to know 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to legend, women were bound in this way to replicate an imperial concubine who danced with her feet wrapped in silk; the other concubines were envious and they all started binding their feet in order to impress the emperor. By the 12th century, the practice had become widespread among the upper classes. It was considered a thing of beauty.
2007-03-30 20:15:53 · answer #2 · answered by ZannyC 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they cover the feet of the child right after they are born (it helps to prevent it from developing) because in China, they believe that the smaller feet you have, the more beautiful a girl is. ("lotus feet")
they also believe that small feet symbolizes a woman who would become a great mother and all that.
(we have different opinions about beautiful :) to site other examples: in cambodia, having a long neck is beautiful, so that they have these kind of chains on their neck to make it longer. tribes in brazil have this kind of bone on their lips that they insert to a child when they are still a baby, because for them, it is beautiful and a sign of their group).
2007-03-30 21:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by deejaye_11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was just a way that the fathers used to make their daughters smaller and more petite so that they would fit into society and find a husband.
2007-03-30 20:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by Skyline 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They broke her tows and made them grow under the foot so the foot eventually became very small. And also very deformed.
2007-03-30 20:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by Ands 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They used to bind their feet, so that they would be petite and not grow too large (their feet that is).
2007-03-30 20:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means that's her orgin. or she broke her foot on a peice of china.
2007-03-30 20:12:06 · answer #7 · answered by NeonZebra 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She couldn't run away.
2007-03-30 20:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋