The three inch - women's foot binding
The three inch Golden Lotus, which first appeared in the Song Dynasty, was an extreme development of the traditional customs of the ancient women. People wrapped the foot is called "Lotus", and different sizes of feet are different grades of "Lotus", more than four inch to four inch "iron Lotus", "anemone", which is "three inch jinlian".
Speaking of "three inches of Golden Lotus", people can not help asking why the small feet of women are called "Golden Lotus". How does "Golden Lotus" and small feet link up? For a long time, people are also interested in this problem, but there is not a satisfactory answer.
A saying that the lotus is named for the Jidong faint Hou pan Princess walk in a graceful way of story. In the dusk, the shape of the lotus flower was cut with gold foil. It was laid on the ground to make Pan's barefoot walking on it, thus forming a beautiful scene of "step by step lotus flower". But the "Golden Lotus" here does not mean Pan's feet. There is a saying that, in the five generation of lotus named sky mother in the lotus dancing on the stage story. But here refers to the shape of lotus stage, the sky is not her feet.
In this regard, some scholars believe that the reason why the small feet are called Golden Lotus should be examined from the lotus flower in the Buddhist culture. Lotus silt but don't dye, in Buddhism is regarded as a symbol of pure Gao Jie. After the introduction of Buddhism to China, the lotus, as a beautiful, Gao Jie, precious and auspicious symbol, was introduced to China and accepted by the Chinese people. In the Chinese people's auspicious words and auspicious patterns, the lotus occupies a considerable position in this point. Therefore, it is no doubt that the lotus is a beautiful name for women's feet. In addition, in the art of Buddhism, most of the Bodhisattva stands on the lotus flower with his bare feet, which may also be an important reason for connecting the lotus and the small feet of the women. Why do you want to add a "gold" word before "Lotus"? This is also out of the traditional Chinese language habits. Chinese modified valuable or beautiful things to love "gold", such as "gold" "golden eye" "jinluandian" etc.. In order for your feet foot era, in the "Lotus" by the word with a "golden" and become the "Golden Lotus", when also belongs to a precious name said. Therefore, later fans often according to the size of small segments or come to beauty, within three inch to four inch Golden Lotus, is that within the three inch. It is used to refer to the later lotus lotus foot shoes, has become synonymous with the feet.
The so-called "three inch Golden Lotus" is the maiming damage to the body of women!
The so-called "three inch Golden Lotus" is the maiming damage to the body of women!
As for the "three inch" of three inches of golden lotus, it has a very small meaning. In fact, it is not necessarily as small as three inches. On foot binding in five generations of period (AD 960 years later), and lasted until around 1950s, during this period I do not know how much the replacement of dynasties, weights and measures in each period are not the same, if that must be "three inches", then, to which dynasty "three inch" became a big problem. Foot binding is pure folk behavior, which is based on the Convention is a foundation, there is no strict scale. The concept of the size of feet is produced in the comparison among the female groups. Of course, there is a trend of smaller and smaller size, so that there are smaller feet less than three inches, but this is not the mainstream, because such a small foot can hardly walk. It can be said that this is a pair of waste feet. It is not to be taken as an example. The recognized standard is: the small feet and walk to the foot, feet in three to four inch (1013.2cm).
Modern people have put three inch feet called the "Golden Lotus", the four inch feet called "anemone", five inch feet, this is called "iron Lotus" is groundless and is very funny, fiction, and orthodox folk from footbinding. In fact, a woman, as long as two feet and four toes wrapped into a pointed bent foot, all called lotus, as the size of the lotus is another matter. This is the original meaning of folk custom binding.
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