Shoe Culture: Why Did Manchu Women Do Not Foot &Nbsp In Qing Dynasty?

Those who like to see the Qing opera play on the feet of the harem women.

The feet of ancient women were called "three inch Golden Lotus". This extreme aesthetic began at the beginning of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

It is said that after the Southern Tang Dynasty, the main Li Yu was in a state of desolate politics. All day long, he was burdled with a voice and a dog. A concubines, with the help of Li Yu, became a crescent shaped with silk binding feet and bent to make a dance dance on the golden Lotus platform.

Since then, the imperial concubine, in order to maintain this stunt and maintain the favor of the latter, has often used white silk to wrap up her feet. As time passes, she has wrapped her feet in the "red diamond" and "crescent moon type".

In this case, people compete to emulate, and after the five generation, they gradually formed the trend and became popular in the marketplace.

In the Song Dynasty, women's golden lotus feet had already been associated with the beautiful peony of Luoyang and the fragrant tea of Jian Zhou and Xin Yu.

In the Yuan Dynasty, if a woman did not bind her feet, she would be regarded as a great shame.

The queen empress of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was laughed at by having a pair of big feet.

In the two dynasties of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the wind of foot binding was especially prevalent, while Han women wore more bow shoes than Manchu women.

The rulers of the Qing Dynasty were extremely disgusted with women's foot binding, and had not yet entered the customs. Taizong Huang Tai Chi edicts in the three year of Chong de (1638) that he is "effective in other countries' clothes and crown, and he is also responsible for serious crimes."

After the queen mother, the queen of the Xiaozhuang said, "there is a penalty for women entering the palace by foot binding," which is the most severe punishment for foot binding of Manchu women.

In the seventeen year of Shunzhi (1660), the imperial court demanded that women in the world no longer bind their feet, but eventually they could not change their habits.

But the eight banners have never been banned, and the Emperor Daoguang reiterated the ban in eighteen (1838).

After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, although Manchu women never bended their feet, they were based on universal aesthetics.