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In feudal society, men occupied a dominant position in society, and women took on more auxiliary work and lived by men. Moreover, most men in official families have three wives and four concubines, and women are under great competition pressure and have to try their best to cater to men's preferences.
How did the three-inch golden lotus become fashionable? During the Tang Dynasty, women's social status was still relatively high, which may have a lot to do with the Xianbei lineage of the royal family in Li Tang. However, in the Song Dynasty, the development of Chen Zhuli's theory made women's social status plummet, forming a situation that was suppressed for more than 1000 years.
So where is this turning point? How did feet become fashionable?
Here, I want to mention a famous person, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Li Yu lived in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and was the last emperor in the Southern Tang Dynasty. This guy is very accomplished in poetry. He was born in the palace, and in the hands of a woman, he was not good at governing the country at all.
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At the beginning of Li Yu's accession to the throne, he also wanted to be a hard worker, but his strength did not allow him. He slowly gave up himself and got lost in poetry and songs.
The two or three events after Li Yuhe Week have long been household names, so I won't repeat them here. In his harem, there is another person named Renniang.
There are so many women in the harem, if you want to be superior, you have to show some unique skills. This woman is not good-looking and stands out, but she has a pair of small feet.
And also according to their own characteristics, created a set of golden lotus dance. At the beginning, the dance was like a lotus Ling Bo, which aroused Li Yu's strong interest.
In pursuit of perfection, Li Yu created a golden lotus platform about six feet high, on which Ren Niang danced. Li Yude has appreciated these little feet from different angles.
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The concubines do whatever the emperor likes. After the fire, other concubines directly wrapped their feet in brocade to win the favor of the emperor.
Of course, this fashion only stayed in the harem of the Southern Dynasties.
When the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty, some maids and concubines of the former harem were brought to the Song Dynasty, imprisoned in the palace or distributed to some literati's homes.
From the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty, dynasties changed too frequently, and these harem wives and concubines had long been used to it. No matter whose mansion they are assigned to, it is right to compete for favor.
As a result, the wind of little feet was brought to the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was once popular in the circle of scholar-officials and nobles.
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How did the Northern Song Dynasty let the wind of Jin Ping Mei ravage the whole country? If this happened in the Tang Dynasty, where the country was founded by martial arts, military commanders might prefer women who could mount horses and settle down on earth. In the Song Dynasty, the country was founded on literature. In order to avoid the tragedy of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin formulated the basic national policy of valuing literature over martial arts.
In the Song Dynasty, scholars and scholars got along well. So what does this have to do with the prevalence of Jin Ping Mei Feng? To sum up, it is nothing more than the following:
First: Li Yu is a representative of the graceful ci school and enjoys a high reputation in the literary world. Although the emperor didn't do very well, his handwriting was really good. These literati must have a lot of Li Yu's "iron powder". What idols like, fans naturally have to try.
Second: What are literati afraid of? I am afraid that my wife is too strong and I am afraid that I have insufficient control. Scholars are not as fierce as military commanders, and if they really do it, they may not be as fierce as women.
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In order to ensure the status of men, scholars have formulated a series of rules and regulations to suppress women. Three obedience and four virtues, chastity is greater than life, including this three-inch golden lotus, have become invisible shackles on women.
Third, the status of women in feudal times was low. In order to win the favor, they took the initiative to join the foot binding. A place where systems and ethos prevail will basically have a specific background as a blessing.
He can't enforce what a man likes. One of the reasons why the style of Jin Ping Mei can prevail is that women take the initiative to accept it.
In this social atmosphere, the wind of Jin Ping Mei prevails.
The common people also fell in love with the "three-inch golden lotus". As mentioned above, literati or arty, or in order to mix circles, have fallen in love with foot binding, which has promoted the prevalence of foot binding in the upper class.
But why is this foot-binding wind still blowing among the people?
Women in poor families need to work, and timid feet will greatly reduce women's labor productivity. Why do they choose foot binding?
Stupidly, there are two basic reasons for this phenomenon: (1) the heart of comparison; (2) fly to the branches and become the heart of the phoenix;
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As mentioned earlier, the wind of foot-binding was first popular among literati, and women in this circle did not need to farm or work. It doesn't really matter if you bind your feet to please your husband.
But after this wind blows, some people who are not literati are even proud of marrying a foot-binding woman. This once led to a shortage of foot-binding women, and many women who have been foot-binding since childhood took this opportunity to marry into a rich family and change their lives.
And those women who don't have foot binding, even if the conditions are superior, can't enter the giants.
Everyone has the psychology to change their living conditions. Therefore, in order to marry a good family, many parents have bound their daughters' feet since childhood.
In this case, the wind of foot-binding is getting worse and worse, and it directly blows to the poor families.