parentshiftbook Chapter 804: The King Of Chu Likes To Have A Thin Waist, So Many People In The Palace Starve To Deat
Chapter 804: The King Of Chu Likes To Have A Thin Waist, So Many People In The Palace Starve To Deat
Queen Ma walked down the steps of the Dan Palace and said in a deep voice as she walked:
"Mr. Song asked, what is the crime of a child that deserves to be tortured like this?!"
"I would also like to ask, what crime can women in the world have to suffer such torture?!"
After hearing what Empress Ma said, Song Lian knew why Empress Ma was angry, and immediately shook his head and said:
"Women in the world are naturally innocent."
Queen Ma said coldly:
"Since women in the world are innocent, why do so many people bind the feet of women and children?!!"
"And why has footbinding gradually become a common practice among civil and military officials and ordinary people?!!"
"Could it be said that footbinding is not an inhumane form of torture for women and children, but a great good thing?!!"
Song Lian was speechless. Is footbinding a good thing for women and children?!!
At least Song Lian, who had just seen Lin Erya's miserable foot-binding situation, disagreed.
In other words, anyone who has seen the horrific scene of Lin Erya's foot binding just now, and who still has a conscience, cannot tell the lie that foot binding is a good thing for women and children without conscience!
Queen Ma had already walked up to the peasant woman Wang and the old woman Zhao. She held the hands of the peasant woman Wang and the old woman Zhao respectively, and said warmly:
"Sister-in-law, Sister Wang, please tell me whether footbinding is a good thing for women and children!"
The civilian woman Wang and the old woman Zhao glanced at Queen Ma gratefully, and then looked at each other. They both knew in their hearts whether foot binding could be completely banned in the future. Today, it depends on them!
Ms. Wang, a commoner woman, slowly squatted down, then took off her lotus shoes, untied the wrapping cloth around her feet, and sighed faintly:
"I started binding my feet when I was five years old, and it has been more than 20 years now."
"For more than 20 years, I have been like a crab without legs. Although I have legs, it is no different than without legs."
"Ever since my feet were bound, I have difficulty walking with my small feet. To move, I have to hold on to the wall, use a staff to hold the pole, or let my maid support me."
"If you are isolated and helpless, it will be difficult to move from one room to another adjacent room."
"As for walking out, even if I hold a stick to support my maid, I can't walk very far before I am out of breath. From time to time, I rely on my shoulders to rest on the pillars, and I have to touch lotus hooks to relieve pain and fatigue."
"It is also common to hear of people who completely rely on others to carry them. Some people even call this kind of young lady who has to be carried by others when she comes in and out, called the 'carrying lady' who is blessed by wealthy people!"
"Haha, this kind of blessing that looks like a useless person is given to all of you, sir. I wonder if you would like it?!!"
I don't know whether it was because of Queen Ma's support, or whether it was because of the 390 foot bindings for more than twenty years that made her full of resentment.
So when it came to what happened next, Mrs. Wang, a commoner woman, couldn't help but look at the civil and military officials in front of her with a sarcastic face.
All the civil and military officials looked at the battered golden lotus of the common woman Wang, and they were all silent.
Immediately, Mrs. Wang, a civilian woman, turned to look at Lin Erya who had fainted at the side, and said with loving eyes:
"Foot binding is divided into three parts: tip binding, thin binding, and crooked binding."
"When wrapping the tip, wrap the wrap as tightly as possible."
"Every time you untie and re-wrap, you should forcefully push the four curled toes from the bottom of the sole of the foot inward. Every time you wrap the toes, bend them down and press them more under the soles of the feet.
"At the same time, you also need to move the four curled toes back from the bottom of the sole to the heel to make some space between the toes, so as to prevent the toes from being squeezed together and the toes being too thick after the feet are wrapped.
"It should be wrapped until the little toe is pressed under the waist of the foot, and the second toe is pressed under the joint of the big toe."
"When wrapping the toes, you often have to twist the toes toward the sole of the foot until they are unyielding, and then wrap them tightly with the wrapping cloth. When wrapping the toes of the second toe and the toes of the third, fourth, and fifth toes, The joints are subject to a lot of deformation.”
"Every time you wrap it, you have to injure several sprained joints again. It's excruciating pain when you wrap it."
"After wrapping it, you have to sew the wrapping tightly with needle and thread, squeeze it into pointed shoes, and then ask the girl to walk around."
"When walking, the weight is placed on the eight toes that are bent inwards, causing the joints to become more sprained."
"Because the toes are just bent in and are not tightly attached to the soles of the feet, corns are easy to form on the toe joints when walking, so you have to use a needle to remove the corns from time to time."
"During the day, my feet hurt so much that I couldn't walk. At night, when I put my feet under the quilt, they not only hurt, but they were also hot and stuffy. Sometimes it was as painful as burning charcoal."
"When sleeping, I can only put my feet outside the quilt. It is common to wake up in the middle of the night and cry next to my feet."
"Some were so painful that they had to untie their footbands, but when they were discovered, they were beaten severely and then tied back again."
"The pain often keeps me awake all night, so I can only put my feet against the wall to get a little bit of cold water all night long."
"When I woke up the next morning, I had to untie the wrapping and wrap it even tighter. In the end, the third, fourth, and fifth toe joints would be severely sprained or even dislocated.
"When you sprain and dislocate your foot, your foot will swell very much and the skin will turn purple, which is extremely painful."
"But the wrapping is still tighter day by day, until the swelling subsides (bhdh) and the toes are wrapped to the soles of the feet. This is the work of wrapping the toes." 1
Hearing this, the wives and daughters of the civil and military officials in the capital who had no intention of binding their feet all had expressions of panic and horror on their faces.
Although they had heard that footbinding was very painful before, they never expected that footbinding would be so painful that they would scream. What kind of inhumane torture is this?!
And in the words of the Queen, what mistakes and crimes have women committed to be forced to suffer such torture?!!
"After the top wrapping is over, it's time to wrap up the body."
"When the feet are wrapped at the toes, all four toes have been curled back under the soles of the feet, but they may not be able to press against the soles of the feet."
"The job of wrapping is to push the little toe bone (that is, the outer handle bone) downward and inward into the sole of the foot, and forcefully push the heel of the little toe down toward the inside of the sole of the foot."
"Then use the cloth to tighten the band around the top of the head. When the top, main, fourth, and fifth toes are not pressed halfway under the sole of the foot."
"When wrapping your body, you need to wrap the outer bones down. Of course, the toes will press more into the inner soles of the feet."
"At the end of the wrapping, the tips of the third, fourth, and fifth toes must touch the inner edge of the sole of the foot, then the wrapping is completed."
"When you are thinning, the foot binding is wrapped as tightly as possible, and the entire force is particularly focused on the heel of the little toe. This often causes pressure sores and ulcers on the heel of the little toe, which is the location of the external handle bone, due to poor blood circulation."
"When wrapping, push the little toe bone down hard, push the four toes along the inner edge of the sole of the foot, and wrap the foot wrapping tightly."
"After the binding, my feet may be so painful that I can't walk for a long time. I have to struggle hard before I can walk on my heels. It hurts a lot."
"The pain is throbbing when I sit down, and it also feels swollen and painful when I sleep."
"If the foot is ulcerated, the swelling will be even more uncomfortable. You have to use pillows and quilts to prop up your feet. Sometimes you have to put your heels on the bedrail to press down on your legs to make them feel better. When the weather is hot, you will feel feverish and painful inside your feet. Even more powerful.
"When the pain is mild, I fall asleep, but my legs are still cramping with pain, or I wake up frequently throughout the night, and my food and drink are tasteless."
"When the wrapping is unwrapped, the ulcerated area is often tightly adhered to the wrapping. If you forcefully tear it off, you will be left with a bloody mess."
"It took almost six months to endure the pain until the toes reached the inside of the foot, and the toes could be touched from the inside of the foot. Only then could I lose weight.
"Urcerated wounds often become more serious if not treated properly. In the end, they may even cause the little toe to rot and fall off, causing chronic osteomyelitis, which will not heal for many years."
Those daughters of civil and military officials in the capital who knew that their mothers were planning to bind their feet, heard what Ms. Wang said, and their feelings of resistance and resistance to foot-binding reached an unparalleled level.
Is this foot binding?!
This is obviously killing them!!!
If their mother must have their feet bound, then they will ask the Queen to make the decision for them.
If the queen couldn't help them, they would rather die than suffer the sin of foot binding, which was worse than death.
"After the soles of the feet are wrapped and thinned, then the work of wrapping and bending is carried out."
"Bending is to create a deep depression in the sole of the foot. The deeper the depression, the more severe the arch will be."
"It's wrapped until the sole of the foot is folded into two sections. The sole of the foot and the heel of the front section are close to each other. There is a deep slit in the middle that is sometimes four or five centimeters deep, and the little toe is caught in the deep slit.'
"Due to the bending of the sole of the foot, the instep swells upward into a high slope. Some insteps that cannot be wrapped well swell like a ball."
"After wrapping and bending, the length of the foot will be significantly shortened. A standard small foot is required to be three inches long. The wrapping and bending process relies on pushing the heel forward, pressing the instep down, and applying force back and forth to tighten it. "
"The big toe passes through this bundle and immediately hangs downward. The sole of the foot slowly becomes concave. If you try to wrap it harder, the bow will become more bent. In about half a year, the foot can be wrapped into a bow shape."
"Relatively speaking, the pain is slightly lessened when the feet are bound, but in some places the soles of the feet are thinned and not much effort is put into it. They only start to be bound in their teens."
"When the bandage was wrapped, it was required to be very short. At this time, the pain was very severe, and I even rolled over on the bed in pain."
“If you don’t have enough time to wrap your feet to make them thin, you can just wrap your feet to bend them. Often, after wrapping, your feet will become hooked inward and bent inwards, resulting in an unsightly banana-like foot shape.
"The feet are bent from straight to an arch shape, then to a horseshoe shape, until the toes and heels are close together and the arches of the feet can no longer be shrunk, then they are wrapped into a standard pair of three-inch golden lotus feet that you all like. ”
"This is the entire process of foot binding. Are you all satisfied with this?!!"
At the end of the story, Ms. Wang, a civilian woman, seemed to be smiling but not smiling, with tears on her face.
There were faint sounds of sobbing from underneath. It was the girls who had their feet bound among the wives and daughters of the capital's civil and military officials.
Some of them had their feet bound to the pointed part, some had their feet bound to the skinny part, and some had their feet bound to the soft and curved part.
What Ms. Wang, a folk woman, is talking about is her own tragic experience of foot binding, but it is not also their tragic experiences in the past, present, and future!!!
After Mrs. Wang, the common woman, finished speaking, Mrs. Zhao, the old woman, also sat down tremblingly, took off her lotus shoes, untied her wrapping cloth, and even raised her trousers above her knees. There were scabs and blood all over his knees.
"The foot-bound lady from a wealthy family has her own maidservants at her disposal. However, she was born into a poor family and married into a commoner family. It is difficult to support her family on weekdays.
Not to mention hiring any maids. "
"However, cooking, sweeping, farming, and carrying heavy loads will not be spared because of old age, bound feet, and inconvenience."
"So in order to seek convenience, we often have to kneel down to sweep the fields and sit on the farm. What's more, we still have to push the mill, plant rice and harvest rice."
"To this day, my legs are almost disabled and I can't stand up straight. I can only crawl on my knees."
The old woman Zhao said with a bitter look on her face.
Queen Ma took a deep breath, looked at the folk woman Wang and the old woman Zhao and asked:
"Why were feet bound in the past?!!"
“Isn’t it okay without foot binding?!”
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When the queen asked, Mrs. Wang, a commoner woman, looked at the high-ranking civil and military officials in front of her with a mocking face and said:
"The King of Chu has such a thin waist that many people in the palace will starve to death!"
"I don't want to have my feet bound either, but you sirs, as well as other literary and wealthy people, all like three-inch golden lotus flowers and small feet."
"So in order for my parents to marry me to a powerful family, they naturally forced me to bind my feet."
"Even if it's not because I want to marry into a powerful family, I will be under the constant praise of you adults, as well as other literary students and wealthy people.
“More and more people regard women with small feet as beautiful and women with large feet as ugly, and continue to despise and belittle women with large feet.
“In the end, it gradually became a trend that women’s foot binding was a kind of ‘ritual’, a sign of ‘correctness’, and a ‘good woman’. "
"A woman who doesn't have her feet bound just doesn't know the etiquette and it's wrong, so she can't get married!"
"So even if some parents don't want to bind a girl's feet, in order to avoid criticism, they have to bite the bullet and ignore their daughter's cries and tears and forcibly bind the girl's feet.
At the end of the story, Ms. Wang, a civilian woman, knelt down in front of Queen Ma, kowtowed and begged and cried:
"I beseech the empress to make the decision for all women in the world, and to abolish foot binding!!!"
Empress Ma's eyes fell on the wives and daughters of all the civil and military officials of the capital, and she asked in a deep voice:
"You, like me, Wang, Zhao, and Lin Erya, are all women. How do you view foot binding?!!"
Hearing Queen Ma's words, all the daughters of the capital's civil and military officials who had already begun to have their feet bound were forced to do so.
Immediately, without caring about the changes in his parents' expressions, he threw away his mother's hand holding him, took a step forward, knelt down and bowed to Empress Ma, and cried sadly:
"I beg you to make the decision for the women of the world and abolish foot binding!"
This is their only chance to get rid of the pain of foot binding. If they miss today, I am afraid they will continue to live a life of foot binding that is worse than death for the rest of their lives.
Immediately after that, there was another part. The daughters of all the civil and military officials in the capital, who knew that their parents were going to bind their feet, also shook off their mothers and held their hands, and faced them.
Queen Zhuma knelt down and begged:
“I beg you, the empress, to make the decision for the women of the world, and I beg you, the empress, to abolish foot binding!
We must seize this opportunity and beg the Queen to order the abolition of foot binding!
Only in this way can they avoid the pain of foot binding. Then they will become like Mrs. Kang.
Finally, the remaining daughters of the capital's civil and military officials who were not required to have their feet bound also stood up and knelt down in front of Queen Ma and said crisply:
"I beg you, your Majesty, to make the decision for the women of the world, and please abolish footbinding!'
Although they don't need to have their feet bound now, if this foot-binding culture continues to develop.
Then I am afraid that they who do not bind their feet now will become an outlier, and their daughters may be affected by the environment and have to have their feet bound in the future!
Therefore, whether it is to prevent yourself from becoming an outlier or to prevent your daughter from having her feet bound in the future, the best way is to ask the Queen to correct the chaos and abolish it.
The custom of foot binding among women all over the world!
Only in this way will they and their future daughters no longer be affected by footbinding.
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