Why make them do that poor old lady, i feel bad for her, well now she's probably used to it but i feel bad for past her.

if u really wanna know. it was an extremely cruel practice in Old China, where they bound the feet of the female babies for years and years. its called 3 inch lotus feet. it was considered sth of beauty back then. and sth men look for in their wives.

the idea is like the long necked african tribes.
» merrick on 2008-07-02 07:19:29

The heels is like WTF.
» L-Lawliet on 2008-07-02 09:19:09

well... until the last couple of years, straving models in their skeletal frames is high fashion. for normal pple, they pop pills, go on diets, for liposuction so as to look rail thin. You think it's normal coz u are constantly surrounded by it.
the difference is only in perception.
» merrick on 2008-07-02 09:59:07

This is SO fake
1) Do you really think that your feet could ever be conceivably forced into that shape? No freaking way.

2) Look at her fingers under the foot. They're flattened. In fact, if she took her hand away, there'd by a gap in the "shoe" pattern where the fingers are now. Somebody got the pic off the internet and manipulated her foot into that shape. It's not so hard.
» middaymoon on 2008-07-04 09:13:11

Re: middaymoon's comment
Those are her toes, not her fingers.

Chinese foot binding, as it's more commonly called in English, is not fake
» bluetopaz on 2008-07-04 09:26:47

I remember seeing a documentary on foot binding. Definitely not fake! They have some strange believes.. I thought the believe was rather ridiculous.
» bauhaus on 2008-07-06 04:07:06

middaymoon: You need some wikipedia ...

"First, each foot would be soaked in a warm mixture of herbs and animal blood. This concoction caused any necrotised flesh to fall off [5]. Then her toenails were cut back as far as possible to prevent ingrowth and subsequent infections. To prepare her for what was to come next the girl's feet were delicately massaged. Silk or cotton bandages, ten feet long and two inches wide, were prepared by soaking them in the same blood and herb mix as before. Each of the toes were then broken and wrapped in the wet bandages, which would constrict when drying, and pulled tightly downwards toward the heel. There may have been deep cuts made in the sole to facilitate this [6].

This ritual would be repeated every two days, with fresh bindings. Every time the bandages were rebound they would be pulled tighter making this process continually painful. The most common ailment of bound feet was infection. Toenails would ingrow and could lead to flesh rotting, occasionally causing the toes to drop off. Disease inevitably followed infection meaning that death could result from foot binding. Occasionally, the ball of the foot would grow directly into the heel."
» L-Lawliet on 2008-07-07 04:49:11

oh my..
I dont know who to believe ><
» Bizzle_whore on 2008-07-08 01:08:16

This is true.
It is, for me, a painfully absurd Chinese ritual. Saw it with my own eyes.
» frostbitten on 2008-07-10 04:07:47

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