Foot binding is unique to China's feudal society as a cruel custom. With regards to its origin, we generally believed that it began in the Five Dynasties and Ten States,（五代十国）over 1,000 years ago. It is said that one of Li Yu's（李煜, the last Emperor of Later Tang Dynasty）harems reshaped her foot so small in order to dance better to win his favor. Since then, almost all ancient Chinese women suffered through the painful alterations of their feetin an early age. This was not because they had to please the Emperors, but because the ancient Chinese men thought that women with bound feet had a better walking posture than those without. 

Months after toppling the Qing Dynasty, which resulted in a republican government, China's founding father Sun Yat-sen soon ordered a ban on foot binding in March 11th, 1912. However, this cruel custom still existed in China many years after the ban. The book "Women of Chinese" stated that the last generation of foot-binding women were already nearly 100 years old. However, I do not agree with this statement.

In the middle 1980s, when I was still a little boy, a girl in my village was forced to foot-binding by her parents and village folks. Days later, fearing the intense pain of foot-binding, a different girl from the village escaped when she learnt that her feet were to be bound as well. 

I once asked my grandma how much pain there was. She said there is so much pain that girls had to be tightly held down by adults while it was going on. As far as I know, to make their feet grow in certain shape, girls' foot bones had to be broken by hand! 

 

(Comments: Great Information! Well written with few grammatical errors J ) 

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