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One Thousand Years Of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity And Demise
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One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and
In addressing the subject of footbinding, one primary difficulty
becomes apparent - that much remains within the realm of the unknowable.
Any factual knowledge about the practice may only be drawn from 19th- and
20th-century wri ....
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.... dance on a golden lotus
platform encrusted with pearls and gems. Thereafter, women inside and
outside the court began taking up strips of cloth and binding their feet,
thinking them beautiful and distinguished, dainty and elegant. It gradually
became the prevailing style and "golden lotus" became a synonym for bound
feet.[5]
One notable personality who aided in the spread of footbinding was
the famed writer and scholar Zhu Xi (1130-1200 A.D.), whose commentaries on
the Confucian classic.... |
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