To make a woman subordinate to a man. Was to be more attractive for marriage. Also, they thought that women with smaller feet were more attractive and showed more class and society. * ( did a report on this)
because back in early china history, it was seen as beautiful for a woman to have small feet. So they devised a method, (tying a woomens feet to a wooden board) so that the feet would have no room to grow because of the board and they would just stop growing. the major downsides are that the woman had a hard time walking on the small feet and the bones in the feet had to break many times before hey stopped growing.
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Started in Qing dynasty ( 1644 to 1911)
It was seen as a thing of beauty by the Chinese men, like women's breasts, or butt ,etc are today in the Western part of the world.
to gain a social status, marry into wealth, or for sexual reasons regarding a foot fetish
It showed that a man was wealthy and his wifedidn't have to work.
From the age of two years to twelve years . Though six years was the ideal of foot binding.
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Foot Binding was also used to distinguish various classes in China (especially aristocrats and the wealthy), because the men who married wives who had foot binding needed to be wealthy enough to support the wife and the family. That is why the wealthy in the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty practiced foot binding on women.
Foot binding.
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It showed that a man was wealthy and his wife didn't have to work.
Foot binding lasted for approx. 1000 years.
From the age of two years to twelve years . Though six years was the ideal of foot binding.
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Foot binding was a custom practiced on young girls and women for (approximately) 1,000 years.
Foot Binding was also used to distinguish various classes in China (especially aristocrats and the wealthy), because the men who married wives who had foot binding needed to be wealthy enough to support the wife and the family. That is why the wealthy in the Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty practiced foot binding on women.
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The mother of the girl (foot binding only happened to girls) to show that she was a possesion and by the mom doing it passed the message down to child.