Try binding: When binding the feet, let the girl sit on a low stool, fill the foot basin with hot water, wash the feet clean, and while the feet are still warm, remove the other four toes except the big toe. Try to twist toward the soles of the feet, sprinkle alum powder between the toes to tighten the skin, and prevent fungal infection. Then wrap them with cloth. After wrapping, use needles and threads to fix them. After wrapping your feet, you will often feel hot on the soles of your feet. Experienced people will not wrap it up hard at the beginning. It is best to wrap it up gently at the beginning, so that the two feet can gradually get used to the restraint, and then slowly tighten it again and again. This period can last from a few days. to about two months. Test tightness: When wrapping, tighten slowly, so that the pressure on the skin of the foot becomes tighter each time. At this time, it should not be too tight. Use the small pain that your feet can bear as a measure. During this period, bend the toes and wrap them. Curl your feet slightly downward. When wrapping, wrap the second and fifth toes in advance until they are bent toward the feet, and the third and fourth toes will also be bent toward the feet. The tightness test also takes a few days to about two months. During this period, the foot binding cloth is starched harder, the wrinkles are beaten out, and the foot is wrapped slightly tightly, so that the foot is used to the pressure of the hard foot binding cloth and tight wrapping. , and then you can really wrap it tightly. Wrapping the toes (toe wrapping): When wrapping, wrap the wrapping cloth as tightly as possible. Every time you unwrap it and re-wrap it, wrap the four curled toes from the bottom of the sole of the foot to the inside. Every time you wrap it, bend your toes and press them more under the soles of your feet. At the same time, move the four curled toes back one by one from the bottom of the sole of the foot 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 has to 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 tip, you often have to twist the toe toward the sole of the foot to the point where it is unyielding, and then use the wrapping cloth to tighten it. Tighten it tightly, and the toe joint of the second toe and the toe joints of the third, fourth, and fifth toes are greatly deformed when it is tied. Each time it is tied, several sprained joints must be injured again. The pain was excruciating. After wrapping, the wrapping had to be sewn tightly with needle and thread, forced into pointed shoes, and then the girl was asked to move 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 have just been bent in and are not yet close to the soles of the feet, corns are easy to form on the toe joints when walking. You need to use a needle to remove the corns from time to time. Lose. During the day, my feet were so painful that I could hardly walk. At night, when I put my feet under the quilt, it not only hurt, but also felt hot and stuffy. Sometimes it was as painful as burning charcoal. I could only put my feet outside the quilt when I slept. I got up in the middle of the night and cried next to my feet. Pain is common. Some people are so painful that they have to take off the foot wraps. But when they are discovered, they are beaten severely and then beaten back. They often stay up all night and stick their feet against the wall to get some coolness. , wake up early the next morning, and have to untie the wrapping and wrap it tighter. Finally, the third, fourth, and fifth toe joints will be severely sprained or even dislocated. When sprained and dislocated, the foot will be severely swollen. The skin also turned purple and was extremely painful, but the bandage was still tightened day by day until the swelling subsided and the toes were wrapped down to the soles of the feet. Only then was the toe bandage completed, and then the slimming bandage could begin. Wrapping (Toe Wrapping): When the toe is wrapped, the four toes have been curled back under the sole of the foot, but they may not be able to be pressed against the sole of the foot. The job of Wrapping is to tighten the little toe bone (that is, the outer handle bone) Push down and inward to curl up into the sole of the foot, push the heel of the little toe down toward the inside of the sole of the foot, and then use the wrap to tighten the strap. When wrapping the tip, the second, third, fourth and fifth toes are not pressed under the sole of the foot. Half of the time, when wrapping, you need to wrap the outer handle bones down. Of course, the toes press into the inside of the sole of the foot more. When wrapping until the end, the tips of the third, fourth, and fifth toes must touch the inner edge of the sole of the foot, then the wrap is completed. Work. When you are thinning, the foot-binding cloth is wrapped as tightly as possible, and the entire force is particularly focused on the heel of the little toe. Often, due to poor blood circulation, pressure sores and ulcers occur on the heel of the little toe, which is the location of the external handle bone. When wrapping, you need to push the little toe bone down hard, and push the four toes along the inner edge of the sole of the foot. Tighten the foot binding tightly. After wrapping, the two feet may be so painful that you can't walk for a long time, so you have to struggle hard. , so that you can walk with your heels to avoid pain when you take a step. There are throbbing pains when I sit down, and swelling and pain when I sleep. If my feet are ulcerated and suppurated, the swelling will be even more uncomfortable. I have to put my feet up with pillows and quilts, and sometimes I have to put my heels on the bed rails for pressure. The numbness of the nerves makes it easier to feel. When the weather is hot, the pain in the feet is even worse when the weather is hot. When the pain is mild
Display of foot binding (15 photos) After sleeping, the pain in both feet is still cramping, or the pain wakes up frequently throughout the night, and the food and drink are tasteless. After unwrapping the wrapping, 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 takes almost six months to endure the pain until the toes reach the inner side of the foot. If you can touch your toes from the inner edge of your feet, you will be considered slim. Festering wounds often become more serious if not treated properly, and eventually may even cause the little toe to rot and fall off, causing chronic osteomyelitis that will not heal for many years. It can be seen from this that to get a pair of small feet bound, you have to go through a lot of hardships. No wonder the women who have bound feet take better care of their little feet than anything else. Wrapping (foot wrapping): After the soles of the feet are thinned, the next step is to wrap the feet. Wrapping is to wrap a deep depression in the sole of the foot. The deeper the depression, the more severe the arch of the foot will be. The sole of the foot is folded into two parts. The front part of the sole is close to the heel. There is a deep slit in the middle that is sometimes as deep as four or five centimeters. The little toe is caught in the deep slit. The instep of the foot swells upwards into a high slope due to the bending of the sole of the foot. , some insteps that are not wrapped well are swollen like balls.
After wrapping and bending, the length of the foot will be significantly shortened. The standard small foot is required to be three inches long, which is about 10 centimeters. The bending process relies on pushing the heel forward and pressing the instep down when wrapping. , apply force front and back to tighten, the big toe passes through this bundle, and immediately hangs down, and the sole of the foot slowly becomes concave. Use more force to wrap it up, and the bow will become more severe. In about half a year, the foot can be wrapped into an arch shape. Generally speaking, the pain is slightly lessened when the feet are bound. However, in some places in the South, people do not put much effort into binding the soles of the feet. They only start to bind the soles of the feet when they are in their teens, and the binding is required to be very short. At this time, the pain is very severe. , and even rolled over on the bed in pain. If there is not enough time to wrap the feet to make them thin, just wrap the feet to bend them. Often, after wrapping, the feet will become hooked and bent inward, 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 considered to be wrapped into a pair of standard feet.
The process of foot binding is simply to curl up the outer four toes and bend the outer longitudinal arch on the sole of the foot when wrapping the toes. When thinning, the transverse arch of the foot bends downward, and further bends the outer longitudinal arch. When bending, bend the inner longitudinal arch of the foot, and further bend the outer longitudinal arch more completely. After the feet are wrapped, the arches on the soles of the feet used to cushion the impact force disappear, and the knee joints and ankle joints have to be used as buffers when walking. Because the sole of the foot is so thin that only the big toe is left, the force of the sole of the foot to push forward is very small when walking. Most of the time, the heel is placed on the ground and the power of the thigh is used to move. The muscles of the calf are atrophied and underdeveloped, so the calf becomes thinner after the foot is bound. , the thighs become thicker on the contrary, and some people use the ball of the big toe and the heel to walk together, so that the walking becomes a splayed walk, which is also a common walking pattern with small feet.
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The process of foot binding mainly involves twisting the joints and twisting the horizontal and vertical arches of the feet to the maximum limit, so the standard The method of binding feet is to wrap and twist it with strips of cloth, bending the joints to the limit. Sprains and dislocations are almost inevitable. When the joints are twisted, the feet will naturally curl up and become smaller. This is a normal method of binding feet, but in some cases, young girls start binding their feet. It is late, or you don’t understand the correct method of foot binding, or some people require that the feet be wrapped to be particularly small. At this time, in addition to wrapping the feet with a wrapping cloth, many other methods are used. Bamboo splints: This method is more commonly used in the north. Foot binding in the north is heavier and slimmer. Therefore, after the slimming is done, the toes are all curled up to the soles of the feet. Although the inner and outer edges of the soles are slim, there are several paraarticular protrusions, such as If you want to wrap yourself more thinly, use two pieces of bamboo, clamp them on the left and right sides of the soles of your feet and wrap them tightly with a wrapper. When wrapped, the stiff bamboo pieces will stick closely to the joints of the foot bones. You will know the pain, often in the bulging parts of the joints. Friction can cause ulcers and suppuration. Even so, there are still many people in the north, especially in Shanxi Province, who use bamboo slices to wrap their legs. In addition to wrapping their feet to make them extra slim, they can also wrap their big toes to make them pointed and their heels to be thin and narrow. The whole foot was narrow and straight, as slender as a willow leaf, and pitifully thin. Therefore, although the girl was often heartbroken and cried day and night when being wrapped, she still swallowed her tears and endured the pain for a pair of thin, upright, arrogant little feet. A wrapping method similar to that of bamboo sheets. Some people use bamboo sheets about three centimeters wide and wrap them with cloth to pad the sides and back of the heel to help tighten the heel. Others use a copper plate or a concave piece of wood to press it on the foot. The inner and outer ankles are wrapped. Some people are afraid that when the feet are bent, the tops of the feet will protrude too much and form goose heads, so they use a copper coin to press on the top of the feet and wrap them. These methods are all about forcibly binding the feet with hard things. To transform the unsatisfactory shape of small feet, regardless of the effect, the unforgettable pain that the girl experienced during the binding process is really an extremely uncivilized and inhumane practice for modern people. Slate oppression: In the old days, many household utensils were made of stone. Stone mills or chopping boards for washing clothes were the easiest heavy objects for women to get. So when their feet were not wrapped as desired, some people would use slates to press their feet. The slate presser foot is most often used when the foot is crooked or turned inward. Normally, when the foot is bound and bent, it is bent directly downward, but the outer longitudinal arch has not been bent yet, that is, it is bent before it is thinned. , the big toe will bend inward, and the whole foot will bend inward like a sickle. The way to correct it is to take off the arch shoes and sit cross-legged so that the soles of the feet face each other, place both feet on a hard board, and use a heavy stone board to put them on. Pressing, the crooked soles of the feet were compressed as soon as they were pressed, which was of course very painful. After an hour of pressing, the feet were numb from the knees down. Sometimes, fearing that the weight of the stone slab was not enough, I would press my hands on the stone slab to increase the weight, so as to make the inside of my body feel numb. After the crooked foot is corrected, it usually takes one or two months of continuous compression every day to show the effect. After the foot is compressed in this way, in addition to the improvement of the inward curvature, the sole of the foot becomes slimmer and the degree of curling of the toes is also ideal. , and at the same time, the feet become straight and straight on both sides. The legs are numb after being pressed by the stone slab. Some people think that the numbness is due to poor blood circulation. They are afraid that poor blood circulation in the feet will cause necrosis of the feet. Therefore, after the pressure is numb, the girl will often be asked to get up and walk or do cleaning work, but the legs are numb. How to walk, sometimes I have to be supported by two people to move around to stimulate blood circulation. The stone slab is usually pressed while sitting. Some people apply pressure while lying down, wearing sleeping shoes on their feet, placing them on the wooden board, and then pressing the stone slab. The purpose of pressing the stone slab is to improve the crooked foot shape, and some people just do it for the purpose of pressing the stone slab. He bound his feet thinly and pressed them with stone slabs.
Wrapped in broken porcelain: This is to use old porcelain such as cups, bottles, dishes, etc., broken into sharp particles. When binding the feet, it is padded on the soles of the feet, usually under the reflexed toes and under the soles of the feet, with a foot binding cloth. Wrap it around, and then force the girl to walk, letting the sharp porcelain pieces penetrate into the toes and soles of the feet and cut the feet. After the feet are cut, blood seeps out and sticks tightly to the wrapping cloth. When re-wrapped, the foot bindings often cannot be untied. After removing it, you need to soak it in foot washing water and tear it hard. Often the blood clots are torn open with the skin. Even if you carefully take out the broken porcelain pieces, blood will inevitably ooze again. The wounds on your feet will be soaked in hot water and become inflamed after a few times. The foot wrap was swollen and rotten, and the foot wrap was stuck even tighter. When the wrap was torn open, the skin and flesh were torn off, and pus and blood dripped. This wrapping method is really bloody and cruel, unbelievable. The sharp porcelain fragments pricked my feet. I was forced to move around, and the porcelain fragments pricked deeper. The toes are the most sensitive parts of the nerves, and there is no soft tissue on the back of the toes. There are bones under the skin. Walking with sharp porcelain pads on them is really like being tortured. The custom of binding feet is already cruel and cruel. , but some people actually derived such a foot-binding technique. This kind of foot-binding technique is not a special case of one place, one person and one time. As far as the author knows, foot-binding has been practiced in Shanxi, Taiwan, Henan, Gansu, Hebei and other places where the custom of foot-binding is relatively popular. The purpose of this wrapping method is to inflame the muscles on the soles of the toes. After they become swollen, they are then wrapped further and pricked with broken porcelain. The original red and swollen tissue will fester and turn into pus and blood. Not only will the feet become extremely slim, but the joints and ligaments will also become deformed. It is easy to twist and bend, so there is a saying that "the feet smell, and if they are mature, they will quickly shrink". When the feet are ulcerated and suppurative, the smell is very strong, and the unpleasant smell of rot and necrosis makes people afraid. Close, this is called smelling. In addition to wrapping porcelain pieces under the soles of the feet, some people also use large pieces of broken porcelain to cut the skin and muscles on the feet, causing them to fester and fall off early. Some people also break the broken porcelain into porcelain slag, soak the foot-binding cloth first, and then apply a layer of porcelain slag on it, and wrap it with such a foot-binding cloth covered with porcelain layers. Corns often appear on the feet when the feet are bound. According to experience, when corns appear, they should be removed with a large needle as soon as possible while they are still small. Some mothers even deliberately use needles to remove the corns from their daughters’ feet after helping them remove them. The feet are stabbed all over the place and penetrated into thousands of holes. This method has the same purpose as wrapping the feet with broken porcelain pieces. They are both intended to make the feet injured, fester and fester, so that the feet can be wrapped easily. It is really unbelievable to have broken porcelain caught in a wrapping. You can imagine the cruelty and pain of wrapping. Generally, it is difficult for a mother to make such a cruel move, so the few examples I collected are from adopted daughters, stepmothers or mothers-in-law, It happens in the relationship between child brides. Of course, there are also older girls who resent the fact that their feet are not too small, and they are determined to use this method to make their feet smaller. Hammer: When binding feet, girls who are afraid of pain will often take off the binding cloth secretly, or cry and dodge and refuse to be bound. Mothers often refuse to listen to advice, and often pick up whips and canes and beat them everywhere in anger. Sometimes He was so angry that he deliberately beat her feet. This was a punishment to force the girl to bind her feet, and most of them used only long and thin wooden strips. But in the old days of foot binding, some people would use a thick wooden stick to beat the toes so hard that the toes would be fractured and dislocated. They would easily bend and become thin. The wooden sticks used were like hammers used to beat cloth when washing or starching clothes. , a rolling pin is also useful. First, the feet are tightly wrapped, and then they are beaten hard with a hammer until the toes are dislocated and fractured. Not only are the feet easily wrapped up, they will also be very soft and boneless. This example is used by brothel madams to dress their young. There are also methods used by stepmothers to treat their daughters like this. It can be said to be even more cruel than torture. It is already painful enough for the girl to have her toes bent when her feet are bound. She then has to beat and beat her toes with a hammer as if she has committed something. Heinous crimes are treated like torture. The binding method of bamboo slices, stone slabs, broken porcelain, and sticks and hammers is not a method commonly used for foot binding. It can be said to be a special case, but it is indeed too special. This is derived from the custom of foot binding. Some The method is unbelievable, but each method can find several records with different backgrounds, and can also tell some truth, which is unbelievable. In addition to these special binding methods, there are also more absurd and cruel practices. Looking at these foot binding techniques, one cannot help but wonder what the difference is between foot binding and abuse.
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The ground in the south is hot and humid, while the weather in the north is cold and dry, so southerners need to wash their feet frequently, while northerners can wash their feet only once every few days. Usually southern women wash their feet once every once in a while. Feet must be washed once every three days, while women in the north wash their feet only once every seven to ten days. Feet washing is a very simple thing for most people, but for women with bound feet, foot washing is an important and time-consuming matter in life. After having their feet bound, women with bound feet are most afraid of letting others see their feet, so when washing their feet, they must hide in the room and close the door tightly to avoid accidental intrusion. Heat a pot of hot water and prepare the pumice stone, dry cloth, small scissors, alum powder, wrapping cloth, and fragrant powder for foot washing. Then sit on a small chair and put the leg straps, trousers, bow shoes, and cloth on your feet. Socks are taken off layer by layer. When unwrapping the foot wrap, blood will rush into the soles of the feet as the wrap is untied, causing numbness and pain, so you need to untie it slowly, especially the last layer, which is often due to sweat and The foot-wrapping cloth is tightly stuck to the skin of the sole of the foot, and it is extremely uncomfortable to tear it apart, so the last layer must be removed more slowly. If you are actively wrapping the baby, you are afraid that unwrapping the foot-wrapping and soaking will relax the foot and enlarge it. Yes, there are also people wearing wrapping cloths for baptism.
The hotter the foot washing water, the better, which can promote blood circulation and increase the softness of the feet. Some people add fragrant flowers and spices to the water. The feet are soaked in heat first, and then rubbed with hands. Feet that have been bound for a long time will be covered with it. It has a special stickiness. Use your hands to slowly wash off the sticky layer. Open the deformed toes and clean them one by one. The sunken soles and the little toes hidden in the soles are the most difficult to wash. Use a pumice stone to remove the hard skin on the toes. Corns are likely to form at joint friction locations. Use a long needle to remove them or trim them off with small scissors. The toes are curled up in the soles of the feet, and the ends of the toes are often sunk in the creases of the soles of the feet. , as soon as the toenails grow out, they will pierce into the flesh, so the bent and deformed toes have to be pulled out one by one, the toes are trimmed very short and then placed in the same hollow. Under great pressure, it is easy to be punctured by toenails and cause paronychia. Therefore, the toenails of the big toe must be shortened, especially the two corners, and then wiped with a dry cloth. Some people use a dry cloth before wrapping. Also press the Golden Lotus firmly with both hands, press it painfully several times in the direction of the ideal foot, and sprinkle alum powder on the feet, especially between the toes, which can remove moisture and make the feet less likely to rot. Some people also Sprinkle on the fragrant powder to increase the fragrance of the little feet, and then wrap them with a clean wrapping cloth. When wrapping, each layer must be cut and cut again, and the cuts are very tight, so that the feet will not become bigger as they are washed. Sometimes it is difficult to wrap the foot tightly after washing, and you have to elevate your feet for a few hours, then untie several layers of foot wrapping cloth and tighten it again. After your feet are wrapped, you put on socks and shoes, because the decorations on your feet are all closed. The size is made by myself, and it fits tightly on the feet, so putting on socks and shoes is also very time-consuming. It often takes an hour or two to wash the feet at a time.