Cyber ​​Swordsman 2121

Chapter 154, The meaning of outer martial arts
The policewoman said: "Of course it's not the foot binding itself, so there's nothing to show off, but the meaning behind it."

"That is--I don't have to work in the fields, and the women in my family don't have to work in the fields. My family can still survive and even live well without half of the normal labor force."

"So as to reflect your own wealth and dignity."

"This also explains why in the society at that time, the families of the upper-class nobles and the families of the lower-class people basically did not have the tradition of binding feet."

"Because the bottom-level families can't survive without a labor force, and maybe even that family doesn't even have a piece of cloth to bind their feet.

"They can't get rid of the troubles of survival at all, so naturally they have nothing to do with this kind of 'advanced interest' that will have leisure and entanglement after solving food and clothing."

"And the upper classes don't need to use this kind of self-mutilation to show that they don't need to survive by doing jobs that in a certain sense, in a certain era, are generally considered by society to be undignified."

"Misses from noble families don't need to prove that they don't need to work in the fields, carrying water and digging manure."

"It's not how open the lower class or the nobles were at that time, or how healthy they were."

"It doesn't have to be said that there are no conditions at the bottom."

"Those nobles don't know how to bind their feet, but they have another fashion custom system of their own."

"Specifically, it can be clearly seen in some film and television works about that time."

"For example, some women with the most status at that time, such as queens, concubines, and nobles, would wear long and exquisite nail covers on their hands to protect their long nails from being broken."

"It's also a form of self-castration."

"It's to show the difference between myself and those false little nobles."

"It is important to know that although many people with bound feet cannot work in the fields, they can sit on the bed, work as female workers to subsidize their household, or cook on the stove."

"On the surface, I don't need to work anymore, but in fact I still need to do a little bit. It's a cunning little idea."

"But after growing long nails, not only can women work and cook, but they can't do anything. They can't even take care of themselves in normal life. They have to be waited on by others."

"This is the reason why those who obviously have a status that will not be oppressed, but still risk the pain of their nails being broken, pay the price of beauty and comfort, and grow long nails."

"It's the best credential they use to show their status socially."

"I am completely out of production and labor, and I have to be carefully served by four, five or even a dozen servants, so that I can survive."

"So, I, Noble."

"Nail covers and foot wraps, there is actually no difference between the two except for the damage to the body."

"At the same time, these behaviors based on human nature have not been lost and passed down."

"After entering the modern era of industrialization, people are more pursuing health, and at the same time, their personality has become more sound. They no longer show their specialness by castrating themselves, but this demand still needs to be resolved."

"Luxury goods." Don't say anything about bound feet before, but Zhang Baoren still knows a lot about this era.

"Correct."

The policewoman nodded and said, "In that era, there were luxury goods called IQ tax by many people, hundreds of thousands of millions of clothes, bags, watches..."

"Many people find it difficult to understand that this thing is really worth so much money?"

"If this problem arises, it will naturally be difficult to face up to why women in the previous era bound their feet and wore nail covers."

"It will only be regarded as some kind of distortion that cannot be seen directly, and cannot be treated rationally."

"For luxury goods, it doesn't matter whether its artistic level and real value are worth so much."

"The important thing is that the purchaser, 'I', can use 100 million or even more money that an ordinary person can't earn in a lifetime, the most important general resource equivalent in the world, to buy a Any ragdoll that uses and buffs value, I can buy a paper bag, I buy a bottle of wine, and I can be a little more crazy..."

"The point is not how much it is worth, but that I don't care about so much money."

"Then in modern times, our era, with the progress and development of the times, although we seem to be more civilized, more free and equal, it seems that those seemingly ignorant manifestations have disappeared."

"In fact, it still hasn't left the original nature, it's just like changing the way of expressing it like a foot wrap becomes a luxury..."

"Maybe you don't know, when the prosthetic body was just born and just developed, its main consumer groups were the rich people at that time, and the rich people at that time were all pursuing higher prosthetic body, more powerful, technological content Higher body."

"It can be said that the development of inner family martial arts is also inseparable from the trend that has become fashionable."

"However, with the maturity of the prosthetic body industry chain, human prosthetics have become widespread, and the so-called powerful martial arts seem to be nothing special."

"Then I don't know when, everyone began to pursue the original in reverse, return to the basics, and pursue pure flesh and blood."

"It's what you see and wonder..."

"It's not that the flesh and blood can bring any better enjoyment, or that there are any treasures in the human body, it's simply that the human body is fragile enough, expensive, and naturally has a certain meaning for people."

The policewoman laughed at herself and said, "After listening to this, do you feel that nothing has changed since ancient times?"

She turned her head to look at Zhang Baoren, but found that he didn't respond at all, leaning against the kitchen counter, staring blankly, as if he was thinking about something.

"What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking about that nail kit..."

"Nail cover?" The policewoman's original emotion instantly turned into a daze.

"What nail set?"

"It's the nail cover you just mentioned that the noble concubines in ancient times wore to protect their long nails and prevent them from breaking."

"What's wrong with this?"

"Long nails are to show off that you are completely out of production and labor, but in order to prevent nails from breaking, you need to wear nail covers. The nail covers need to cover all the nails."

"But then you can't see the nails, so the nail covers represent the nails."

"Then you can just wear nail covers and leave no nails, so that you can pretend without feeling uncomfortable."

Zhang Baoren looked at the policewoman as if he had discovered some new world, "Do you think there will be such a person at that time?"

"I've said so much and you thought of this?"

The female policeman had an unkind look on her face.

Zhang Baoren hurriedly explained, "No..."

(End of this chapter)