According to the textual research on the history of foot-binding in Gao Hongxing, many historical materials prove that foot-binding originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and the custom of foot-binding rose in the Southern Song Dynasty. A great deal of historical evidence proves that women in China did not bind their feet before the Song Dynasty.
As for the reasons for foot binding, there are probably four aspects: aesthetic requirements, gender segregation system, the promotion of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, and the promotion of virgin hobbies.
Foot-binding was also highly praised by scholars in the Song Dynasty. Even outstanding writers such as Su Shi and Xin Qiji have chapters to sing and appreciate foot binding.
Expanding knowledge, prohibiting foot-binding and advocating women's education are two main contents of the women's liberation movement in the late Qing Dynasty.
1883, Kang Youwei founded a non-foot-binding club in Nanhai, Guangdong Province, trying to get rid of the thousand-year-old bad habit of foot-binding. However, at that time, the atmosphere was closed, and people were afraid that the Qing court would ban associations, which did not play a significant role.
1At the end of 896, Wu Xinggang, a native of Hunan, set up a foot-binding club in Yuezhou, with 40 members. The earliest foot-binding meeting in Changsha appeared at the beginning of 1897, and Yi established a foot-binding meeting in Changsha.
Subsequently, in the second year, that is, in the 24th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1898), during the reform and reform in Hunan, Tan Sitong, Xiong Xiling, Tang and others founded the "Hunan Non-Foot-Binding Club" in Changsha, with its headquarters in the newspaper office of Xiaodong Street (now Zhongshan West Road) in Changsha, where Huang Zunxian, Xu Renzhu, Xiong Xiling, Tan,
The Marriage Charter of Hunan Non-foot-binding Association stipulates that "any daughter born to a member shall not bind her feet". As a provincial judge, Huang Zunxian also issued an order prohibiting foot-binding, enumerated the dangers of foot-binding, and warned that those who beat and kill young girls because of foot-binding would be severely punished. Talk/chat/talk (about [something]) (with [somebody])
Mrs. Heitong and Li Run, a Liuyang woman, took the lead in joining the non-foot-binding club. After the Reform Movement was suppressed, Hunan Foot-binding Association was closed, but the harm of foot-binding in Changsha was gradually known, and the foot-binding movement was deeply rooted in people's hearts.
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