credit: dismalaesthetics.com1000 years ago tiny feet were considered to be beautiful.
The "perfect" woman's foot was called the "Golden Lotus" and it was only 3 or 4 inches long! In the past, Chinese women’s feet were bound with meters of cloth to stop them from growing so that they would resemble a “three-inch golden lotus” at a time when normal big feet were considered ugly. The culture started in the era of the last king of the Latter Tang Dynasty (923-936 AD) and continued to be practice even when it was banned by the Manchuria during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
To create the prefect Golden Lotus feet, a mother began to bind her little daughter's feet tightly with cloth bandages. By the time she turned three, all her toes except the first will break, and her feet will be tightly bound with cloth strips to keep her feet from growing more than 10 cm, which is about 3.9 inches. This practice would cause the soles of the feet to bend them in an extreme manner.
Foot binding practice then started to cease during the 20th century.
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